Example sentences of "'ve [vb pp] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 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 .
32 Well you 've got to have a unanimous decision have n't you ?
33 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 .
34 So I suppose you 've got to have a little bit of a thick skin . … . ’
35 So you 've got to have a little bit of patience in relation to what other road users may do .
36 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 !
37 We must move on , because we 've got to have a commercial break , and then we want to check on the traffic .
38 it would , you 've got to have a big spread really have n't ya ?
39 right , oh you 've got to have a special sub base speaker then ?
40 We met er , a beautiful old English sheep dog , seven months old and they 've got to find a new home for it , because they 're off to America .
41 Well we 've got to find a new supplier have n't we ?
42 We 've got to find a better way .
43 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 .
44 You 've got to develop , you 've got to develop a decent eating habit
45 I think you 've got to add a little bit to that .
46 Even this morning I 've had to sell a first-rate Hockney print for £6,500 , which cost £5,540 seven years ago , which with the cost of money represents a loss of about £5,000 . ’
47 All too often women say to me , basically they 've had to fake a sick line themselves because their mother or their father
48 Mrs Postance 's opposite number at the Haywards primary school at the other end of town , Mike Palmer , talks of ‘ tooling up ’ for the undertaking : ‘ I 've had to use a large slice of my in-service training budget to release staff during the school day for quite substantial periods to match up their plans for the following year .
49 Sorry you 've had to send a new Governor after all .
50 we 've had to dig a little bit out
51 We 've had to make a million pounds savings this last year .
52 where we 've tried , we 've tried to keep a reasonable pension for them .
53 And they 've started to get a few things together have n't they ?
54 So far , they 've failed to make a serious dent in the all-important college music scene , essential if a so-called ‘ alternative ’ band wants to crack America ( and keep their US record deal ) .
55 But things have turned round slightly in the last few weeks and erm the players have got themselves together and erm we 've managed to string a few results together .
56 We 've not managed to clear the speaker 's part of the platform as entirely as the Americans do , but at least we 've managed to create a decent space around the speaker .
57 ‘ Folly , somehow we 've managed to get a crossed line here .
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