Example sentences of "has got " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the initial impetus has run out , he wrote , and before one has got in so far that it is easier to finish than to go back , it is then that it becomes hard to be sure of your footing , hard to know why you are doing what you are doing , hard to know if you are doing correctly what you are doing . |
| 2 | It has a mass of flowers in August but has got very straggly . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , your Lucy has got you winding her chain , darling , and she just wo n't take her feet off the ground and let go — am I right ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The trouble is , Miss Galahad , this flaming green-eyed redhead has got under your skin , she 's growing with you darling , like mistletoe on an oak . |
| 5 | Recall that at the beginning of this piece I briefly discussed what the representational theory of the mind has got right : that thoughts are not simple responses , reactions or reverberations to environmental stimulation — contrasting this with the case of the thermostat which automatically switches on and off at pre-set temperatures . |
| 6 | Something has got to give : all these italicized attributions can not be true of the same person at once . |
| 7 | There has been a political revolution in Paddock Wood in Kent , though it has got marginally less press coverage than the fall of the Berlin Wall or the failed Russian coup . |
| 8 | I tend to be rather disorganised when packing gear , so anything that helps me keep things in the right place has got to be a bonus . |
| 9 | The reader is both astonished and utterly convinced , as he is later on in the interview when Porfiry plays the dangerous game of saying he has got no real proof , he 's going on hunch and ‘ psychology ’ — so Raskolnikov had better confess . |
| 10 | He has got off lightly : we learn with mildly comic surprise of mitigating circumstances : he had been good to a consumptive fellow student , and he had saved two children from a blazing house , getting burnt himself while doing so . |
| 11 | The Raskolnikov of Crime and Punishment has got unused to everything ; all the calm pressures of habit are denied him , his punishment has begun . |
| 12 | The document which Bishop Tikhon will read puts Raskolnikov in Svidrigailov 's shoes because it is a record of the excesses a mortally jaded palate has got up to . |
| 13 | I look in the same direction to account for the charming note ‘ Granovsky has got a bit out of hand ’ . |
| 14 | He is a young friend of Stepan Verkhovensky , and when the notebooks record that Granovsky ( Stepan 's prototype ) has got out of hand they are also heralding the novelist 's escape into a fictional mode of enormous suppleness . |
| 15 | Sometimes he is just a secondary figure floating in the novel 's bloodstream , as at the fête where he has got roped in with a few other young men to be a marshal and make sure everything goes smoothly . |
| 16 | But one has got to be realistic . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're still fighting that one , ’ Bromley says , ‘ but peak-time scheduling has got harder and harder to break into . |
| 18 | If theatre artists of this calibre are prepared to launch a production from Plymouth , it seems a fair bet that the Theatre Royal management has got its act together . |
| 19 | The message behind the report is that the majority of parents has got it all wrong . |
| 20 | It remains to be seen how much Biggs has got left and even Duff has made mistakes . |
| 21 | Our concentration has got to be on the teaching and on the stretching of children . |
| 22 | Surely if he has got it you ought to encourage it … |
| 23 | She said : ‘ He has got away with less than two years in prison . |
| 24 | I think it has got to stop because apart from anything else it has knock-on consequences for other paediatricians over how strong they are going to feel in dealing with this problem . |
| 25 | He frequently gives interviews , and has got television performances down to a fine art . |
| 26 | LONDON UNCLE Ian 's Deli-Diner has got things determinedly backwards . |
| 27 | Many a Jewish courtship has got off to a somewhat greasy start over pickled brisket sandwiches and chips on fine evenings outside the deli . |
| 28 | Mr Baker also conceded ‘ there will be in the 1990s inescapable areas of expenditure where there has got to be increases , for example , in caring for the elderly ’ . |
| 29 | Kelly said : ‘ It 's not right that the end of year events are worth more than the early season classics just because the interest has got to be maintained to the finish . ’ |
| 30 | Though Sir Derek must ultimately carry management responsibility for the mess ISC has got the company into , it would prove difficult to find someone better to sort it out if only because any newcomer would have to spend so long in getting to grips with the problems . |