Example sentences of "you 've [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Sorry you 've had to send a new Governor after all .
2 You 've got to carry a little packet with you because who goes to said please can you put your condom on .
3 Some people do n't mind answering machines , I must say , I 'm beginning to get used to them now , I think the problem is that it sort of wrong-foots you , so you get an answering machine , and think ‘ Oh my God ’ , and you know that in about a few seconds time , when you hear that bleep , you 've got to give a concise message which will be intelligible to the person when they replay it , so instead of coming out with sort of babble , you 're forced into thinking what the essence of the message is that you want to leave .
4 Four fi five and a quarter tax free , you 've got to put an awful lot of money in the building society to get that sort of return have n't you ?
5 So , the there there is a distinction in terms there , you 've got to do a literal translation first .
6 Well maybe they do , but we take this we always take this as a year on year situation and you 've got to do a longer term comparison if you 're going to get the true effect of the services
7 Taking that on you might say with interviewing , that you know , You 've got to do an interviewing course every three years .
8 And then you 've got to introduce a new little group which is halfway between that and what starts bar sixteen .
9 I mean , really , you 've got to book an extra night to be honest .
10 I think the problem with feminism is that a lot of people think that somehow you have to understand an awful lot of things , you have to read a lot of books , and you 've got to understand a whole lot of different theories , before you can call yourself a feminist .
11 I think you 've got to add a little bit to that .
12 Because the more you know about your product , the more you know about the benefits , the more you know eh you 've got to keep an open mind on it , you know that , right you can not go out and just sell this ee for me , just one line , bom , bom , bom
13 But you 've got to pay a little of money .
14 So if you wan na take them home you 've got to pay a little bit of money
15 You 've got to develop , you 've got to develop a decent eating habit
16 But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year .
17 [ There was discrimination ] not directly , but in subtle ways , like when you 're choosing your options , no matter what you 're doing there 's always a group where you can do cookery or needlework , but if you 're doing physics you have to put that down , and that means that you ca n't do something else that you might want to do , like history or something ; you 've got to make a positive choice to do science whereas it 's quite easy to drift into doing history and things like that .
18 One of the problems with humour is you 've got to make an immediate impact sometimes if you try to analyse it into too much detail , it spoils it .
19 You 've got to have a sharp brain to work out the tactics and you 've got to have a very good technique , so it 's a demanding sport .
20 Yes , you 've got to have a certain degree of structure in it and that happens I think through the parish council in a number of the key areas , but you have got to retain a degree of flexibility , otherwise you will just stifle initiative , you 'll stifle growing issues that happen .
21 Yeah , but you 've got to have a complete word that matches Charlotte
22 You 've got to have a correct address David .
23 It does n't mean you 've got to , should , does n't mean you 've got to have a loud voice , it just means you 've got to speak , speak clearly and slowly enough to be clear .
24 A hung parlian A hung parliament To get into parliament in the house of commons you 've got to have a thirty percent majority .
25 You 've got to have a thirty percent I 'm not on about seats .
26 You 've got to have a thirty percent majority .
27 You 've got to have a thirty percent majority .
28 You know once you 're on that system you 've got to have a light one and a heavy one
29 right , oh you 've got to have a special sub base speaker then ?
30 All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report .
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