Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] have got " in BNC.

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1 We also of course have got sophisticated , I hope , complaint systems now and those are another important way and we 're always trying to improve our quality control and quality assurance mechanisms .
2 But I would n't wish anybody er to get the idea that we as a union wish to take away what really is the parliamentary privilege that members of parliament have got to have to look after their own constituencies in addition to being sponsored members of parliament .
3 Mary of Guise had got what she wanted , in terms of policy .
4 It 's trying to do the same work with the smaller amount of blood as it did with the full amount , ten pints perhaps reduced down to seven , got to keep pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , because that little bit of blood has got to get round and do a lot more work now , okay , so the blood 's rushing round and the heart is pushing faster because it 's having to , because it 's not enough of the , not so much pressure there , that 's why it feels weak , weak and fast , okay ?
5 She liked to wonder how a particular piece of jetsam had got there .
6 ‘ The first thing passengers do when they are served is have a look at what their neighbour has got — their piece of chicken has got to be the same size , ’ says Karen .
7 The Federation of Small Businesses , said : ‘ The Chancellor 's green shoots of recovery have got frostbite .
8 This type of badgering has got to stop for everyone 's good .
9 You know , I mean we revert a lot of trade here to next day , so the quality of service has got to be good or we lose them .
10 I had slept in the bedroom myself not so many years before , and in the first light of morning had got up to see what the village might have looked like before the traffic came and before the stone walls had been breached .
11 The defect in this case though , a drop of sealant had got into the lubrication system , went beyond mere teething trouble .
12 That doctrine of notice has got into the Common Law in one or two places , e.g. in the law about the sale of goods in market overt , and in the law of negotiable instruments ; but , broadly speaking , whenever you have got rights which depend upon notice , you may be pretty sure that you are in the sphere of Equity .
13 A little black flake of mascara 's got trapped behind it .
14 The Secretary of State has got it completely wrong .
15 In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense .
16 according towards the under revelation he talks about how these , these dumb idols and these pieces of gold have got nothing in them and that 'd be way in which the , the ones would be caught out , because of these gold or whatever have got nothing in them you see .
17 Erm the electricity every every bit of wire has got some resistance and erm electricity will be struggling through , warms it up .
18 Like mum 's got her tea towels on .
19 But I think er with a big family like mother had got , she used to like her divi day erm for erm you know , well say save up , well it used to come round about May and you 'd think well just , you know just in time for the summer shoes or something you know .
20 Raising money for charity has got to be worthwhile .
21 The link with Labour has got to be more than just signing a cheque .
22 Miller 's career in management had got off to a whirlwind start .
23 The one in town 's got a big sign up in the window now saying as from the 1st April , we will only do methadone prescriptions in between two and five o'clock in the afternoon , right .
24 and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult !
25 It was unlikely that any English advance-parties would in fact have got thus far as yet , but they went prepared .
26 Trouble is , person in front 's got a trailer as well .
27 As the economic crisis has got worse , the attention the government has given to education has got less to the point where instead of opening schools they are closing some of them , because — so they say — they ca n't pay the teachers ' salaries .
28 What on earth had got into me ?
29 What on earth had got into her , she asked herself ?
30 But she could n't , and a moment later she was asking herself what on earth had got into her that whatever he thought of her should bother her !
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