Example sentences of "got [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now when the buses pull up there , they 've got to double park and it completely blocks the road , I mean you 've either got to swing right round the bus on the wrong side of the road and you know you could easily run into something coming the other way . |
| 2 | ‘ Somebody has got to minister to the rich , ’ she added complacently . |
| 3 | We 've got to treat you like best bone china . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've got to treat Patricia carefully , ’ she had overheard him say to her mother one night . |
| 5 | you do n't think oh here comes a rapist , here 's a sex offender , he 's a whatever , just to take them as they come as people , because you 've got to treat them all the same anyway |
| 6 | But you 've got to treat it as a special case |
| 7 | ‘ We 've just got to sit it out ; it 's all we can do . ’ |
| 8 | We 've got to sit down one of these days … |
| 9 | I 've got to sit down . ’ |
| 10 | Have I got to sit behind this chap for ages ? |
| 11 | They 'd got to sit up and lean against their pillows and their sheets had got to be turned down . |
| 12 | Everybody 's got to sit down and talk eventually and something has got to be worked out and that 's got to happen we know that . |
| 13 | Have you used all them Ladybird like er matching numbers now in the scho in the schools and that , and you 've actually got to sit there and count them , so . |
| 14 | We 've got to sit at the back |
| 15 | Oh why is it every time I sit somewhere he 's always got to sit somewhere near me . |
| 16 | Has somebody got to sit here and listen to all this rubbish ? |
| 17 | So , let me , Simon , when we get back to , to your division we 've really got to sit down with Graham and Peter now and erm , get it as part of their work to produce . |
| 18 | All of us , including the critics , have got to sit down and read three hundred pages line by line , to make final judgments , but we 're looking at a programme there of the next decade . |
| 19 | and yet they 've got to implement |
| 20 | We 've also got to implement the famous Community Care Act , which implies that we 've got to set up an inspection unit of all our own services . |
| 21 | There s a conference at Brighton I 've got to attend . ’ |
| 22 | And to be interested you 've got to attend your branch meetings and know what 's going on . |
| 23 | Making sure that your candidate attends every meeting , for er s you know during er an election campaign they 've got to attend all the meetings . |
| 24 | Or that they 'd got to attend court or something . |
| 25 | Although it 's two years later they 've got to resell at the price that er it 's been discounted more or less . |
| 26 | But we 've got to cling to the view that some good may come of this . ’ |
| 27 | You have got to enjoy yourself to be able to complete at a top level and I still love my running . |
| 28 | What have you got to lose — apart from your wad ? |
| 29 | We can make fear choices , which lead us to cling to the past — ‘ I hate my job , but I wo n't find anything better , so I 'd better stick to it ’ , ‘ I always eat hamburger and chips on Thursdays ’ , ‘ I 'd like to know Chris better , but I 'm sure s/he wo n't be interested in me ’ — or growth choices , in which we reach for the future — ‘ I hate my job , so I 'll start applying for others , even though it feels scary ’ , ‘ Maybe I 'll try spaghetti bolognese tonight ’ , ‘ What have I got to lose ? |
| 30 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I feel excited ( that 's the spirit ! ) , like it 's the beginning of a new chapter , a new freedom , what have I got to lose ? |