Example sentences of "have got " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ronnie could have done with one himself but he would have got arrested . ’ |
| 2 | It is quite possible that a number of other political changes would have got under way more recently were it not for the direct intervention of Pope John Paul II and the Vatican . |
| 3 | We will not have got rid of nostalgia , he wrote , till we have got rid of the sky . |
| 4 | I 'd have got better . |
| 5 | You 'd have got better anyway , I told him . |
| 6 | Should have got rid of it years ago , but had n't . |
| 7 | You see , whoever put that poisoned cherry on the cake must have got sugar on his hands , but could n't lick them because of the poison , and could n't wash them because there was no water available . |
| 8 | Magnus could have made one of his rude jokes which would really have got Claire going . |
| 9 | Oh , good child , she teased herself , if only you 'd done this at school and art college , you 'd have got a first . |
| 10 | Personally , I would have voted for the lads at Cain 's Brewery but Twitters may have got the jitters if the revamped Higson 's had made the headlines . |
| 11 | We bought one ( a mistake , we should have got two ) to supplement an old ladle-handle type of thing dug out from my past , and a hammer and a few pegs to be on the safe side . |
| 12 | ‘ If you had not lost him at cards , would he have got into prison ? |
| 13 | He had no alternative ; had he remained in London after 1920 , the antagonism to him could only have got more obdurate and more brutal . |
| 14 | Without a student grant I would never have got there . |
| 15 | Lord Aldington insisted they had not been lied to , but they would not have got into the trucks if they had known they were going to Yugoslavia . |
| 16 | ‘ I must have got out of the wrong side of the bed , ’ Beck said . |
| 17 | How to translate Xenophon and ancient Greek military manoé4uvres must have got into his head after all . |
| 18 | ‘ He must have got a puncture , ’ Michael offered . |
| 19 | She made between 70 and 90 blouses a week which , despite the low rate of pay , compares well with what she might have got as a part-time worker in a sweat shop , the most likely alternative . |
| 20 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 21 | He 'd have got me the moon out of the sky if I 'd wanted it . ’ |
| 22 | I could have got money for some of them , but that would have meant delays . ’ |
| 23 | Unlike Mr Major , Mr Hurd is an experienced former diplomat and a Foreign Office Minister of State who has sounded made-for-the-job since day one , which is why he would probably not have got it but for the Lawson affair . |
| 24 | Unlike Mr Major , Mr Hurd is an experienced former diplomat and a Foreign Office Minister of State who has sounded made-for-the-job since day one , which is why he would probably not have got it but for the Lawson affair . |
| 25 | ‘ I think the ordeal of the big occasion would have affected me and my nerves would have got the better of me . |
| 26 | Several rounds from a sub-machinegun indicated that a lone member of the PDF may have got into the neighbourhood . |
| 27 | In either case Kasper could only have got there , like many of the top racers , on crutches . |
| 28 | I thought that if I ran and it was a coronary , it should have got worse , but I ‘ ve run round the block and it has n't , so it must be indigestion . ’ |
| 29 | His first thought , as he shook the hand of the distinctive dark man almost as tall as himself , was that Francesca must have got it wrong this time . |
| 30 | They 're both — were both — well over twenty-one , and they could have made a deal which essentially bought out Angela 's life interest for a capital sum and then Miss Huntley would have got the rest . ’ |