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 So , the there there is a distinction in terms there , you 've got to do a literal translation first .
5 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
6 And then you 've got to introduce a new little group which is halfway between that and what starts bar sixteen .
7 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 .
8 I think you 've got to add a little bit to that .
9 But you 've got to pay a little of money .
10 So if you wan na take them home you 've got to pay a little bit of money
11 You 've got to develop , you 've got to develop a decent eating habit
12 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 .
13 [ 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 Yeah , but you 've got to have a complete word that matches Charlotte
17 You 've got to have a correct address David .
18 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 .
19 A hung parlian A hung parliament To get into parliament in the house of commons you 've got to have a thirty percent majority .
20 You 've got to have a thirty percent I 'm not on about seats .
21 You 've got to have a thirty percent majority .
22 You 've got to have a thirty percent majority .
23 You know once you 're on that system you 've got to have a light one and a heavy one
24 right , oh you 've got to have a special sub base speaker then ?
25 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 .
26 So I suppose you 've got to have a little bit of a thick skin . … . ’
27 So you 've got to have a little bit of patience in relation to what other road users may do .
28 The only other comment I had in terms of the scale of settlement , which I think is just touching upon the next point , is that , I mean depending on the conclusions you reach as to the the amount of housing to be provided for in a new settlement , I take the point that Mr Brighton made that you 've got to have a longer term perspective I think that he f that in the ten year period ninety six to two thousand and six that the new settlements to be brought forward during , erm I think it 's really unrealistic to achieve more than twelve fifty , fourteen hundred houses in that period , if you say reach a conclusion there should be two thousand houses in that period in a new settlement , there might be some benefit in having two settlements , each of a capacity of say twelve fifty , f for erm twelve fifty to fifteen hundred that can have capacity for the next plan period , and in other words to assist in meeting the constraints that exist on York that are likely to exist into the future .
29 He took me out last Sunday and I said as we were driving over to Lavenham , I said an early would be much appreciated , I said I cooked the Sunday Lunch for my lodgers , but I have n't , in fact , had any myself he said you 've got to have a high tea , he said you must have a proper meal and he ordered up salad and a a ham salad and have this and have that and have the other , where as some of them like this chap Gerald who was erm sent me by one of the other agencies the first time we went out he took me to a meal and he obviously felt that quite enough , after that he used to come out to see me after he 'd had his meal meanness , hanging onto money !
30 Well you 've got to have a unanimous decision have n't you ?
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