Example sentences of "[vb base] got [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A born raconteur , the racy style of his lectures , with his well known yarns — the most famous being that of the ‘ Woman who did ’ — I suspect got more chemistry into our thick heads than did the much admired cool , classic perfection of the lectures of Prof F. L. Pyman .
2 Considering we ve got such shit players and shit management that s not bad is it .
3 I 've got odd days and then a six week block .
4 Erm If I 've got sixty miles to do , and I do it at erm do it at sixty miles an hour , it takes me one hour .
5 Well I 've got fourteen pounds
6 You 've got fourteen batteries
7 I 've got fourteen places in the last two years and then these opens .
8 significantly every hour that they do on that is gon na be signific is , is not budgeted for cos you 've got fourteen people there who were n't budgeted for at all .
9 ‘ Listen , Jack , Dad and Steve — they 've got lousy jobs at Sakata .
10 What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it .
11 She judges everybody by their star sign , too , avoiding Scorpios because they 've got a sting in their tail , Geminis because they 've got split personalities and Taureans because they 're stubborn , irrespective of the staggering complexity of human nature .
12 Sort of where it 's coming from , so we 've got chemical energy .
13 You 've got 32 bits of portable processing performance at your disposal .
14 You 've got the situation where you 've got remote gears , and you 've got a situation where you , sorry , remote valves , and you 've got a situation when you 've got standard valves and also a small
15 We 've got 100 bottles , worth £1.99 each , to give away to Hairflair readers .
16 We 've got 100 copies of the album Freddie Mercury made with opera diva Montserrat Caballe , Barcelona , to give away .
17 Ah in my notes here I 've got paid leave
18 And , and , you know , they 've got paid youth officer 's working in Harlow , now they are , there are , they 're over they 're over stretched it 's true and , but we , I mean what were doing here is actually supplementing there service and were not meeting all , we would n't of erm meeting all the demands , but the important thing I think is that were continuing to erm , you know , were trying to do something about it , and one of the things that were trying to do as officer 's in the Local Government Unit is work with Leisure Services and get them to put more resources into doing things for young people .
19 ‘ They 've got many contacts there and it was quite easy for the management to arrange gigs .
20 I do n't think I 've got many cards up here they 're in my bedroom I think let's have a look these are all done .
21 ‘ I do n't think we 've got much time . ’
22 I 've got yucky butties tomorrow !
23 It costs £4.45 for 250ml — but we 've got 200 bottles to give away , free .
24 ‘ We 've got 200 outlets all over Britain , and I can get to 80 per cent of them by road within four hours of leaving here .
25 But if , if you 've got that idea of what Mao 's idea of excess is you know that you can have excesses then you go f forward and then you come back there
26 I mean , you 've got that ability .
27 I , yeah , I drove up , up there and back , like , my leg do n't ache , they ached a bit at a time , but that , you know that bone you get , each side of your keep your thumb there , you 've got that bone , underneath there 's a bone there , you might , or the bottom bone that you 'll sit on , you know when you sit still you get that bone .
28 If you 've got that standard you can then identify whether a person is below standard or
29 So I would prefer them to be assessed in that way than to post them off , and I 'm glad we 've got that choice
30 My willpower may not may not strong enough for me to do it for long , but , I 've actually , I 've got that choice , to choose to do it , it 's something I do .
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