Example sentences of "[verb] got [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Has got to go through this learning curve to some degree .
2 The problem is professional pride , and let's be honest : some d-i-y work can be appalling , and the builder has got to work with this .
3 I 'm glad you like my essay , but I do n't like what you 're doing ’ , or would he think ‘ oh dear I 've got to put with this or she 's going to write a bad report on me ’ .
4 Erm but then weighing things up I 've got to reflect on that one .
5 I finally realized that I 've got to live with that .
6 And in a sense Mao is saying that it 's , it 's not right to go straight for land reform , you , you 've got to go for this policy of rent reduction , interest rate reduction first .
7 ‘ You mean we 've got to go on that ? ’ he said .
8 So I mean I think we 've got to go into this for all the course .
9 You say you got to go to that golf club or you 've got to go to that school .
10 But I 've got to go to this meeting … "
11 I 've always maintained the analogy that working with Fleetwood Mac was like movie making , because you have an idea , but to get from point A to point B you 've got to go through all these steps .
12 Especially if you do n't realize that till you 've got , till you 've got home and you realize you 've got to go through all the hassle of going back to the shop to complain .
13 But at the moments you wish you were shot of the whole thing you know perfectly well that it 's precisely because you could n't endure to be without it , now you know about it , that you 've got to go through all this .
14 But it 's very difficult , I 've got to go through all that , before I can answer her question .
15 Erm in the early stages , I mean you 've got to go through all the ranks , you 've got to go through that physical side , even if you want to get on , there 's no direct promotion into the higher ranks so you 've got to go through it , every Chief Officer , every senior officer that you , you come across in the fire service , has started as a fireman and will start as a fireman on like er the forces where you get direct entry into the forces , you do n't get them in the Fire Service .
16 Erm in the early stages , I mean you 've got to go through all the ranks , you 've got to go through that physical side , even if you want to get on , there 's no direct promotion into the higher ranks so you 've got to go through it , every Chief Officer , every senior officer that you , you come across in the fire service , has started as a fireman and will start as a fireman on like er the forces where you get direct entry into the forces , you do n't get them in the Fire Service .
17 Erm , parent involvement , there is no mention in this report about parent involvement , and I think this is absolutely essential that the , it 's often the families who are poor parenting , because they 've been poor parent people , and you have succession , and we 've gone somewhere along the line , we 've got to go down that road .
18 But you 're not , you 're not allowed to talk to it see , you 've got to talk to each other .
19 See , I 've got to talk to this guy over a working breakfast at my hotel first thing in the morning . ’
20 I 've , I 've got to finish off this term 's work
21 The last part of the resolution is it 's actually taking up the area , where at the present time we have n't got a D S O. It seems stupid that you go into a school and you can clean , clean their classrooms , cut their grass and look after their , do their grounds maintenance , cook the kids ' dinners , but you ca n't do any minor repairs , you 've got to call in another organisation .
22 right you know what you 've got to do with that lot ?
23 Now have a look at it and see what you 've got to do with that , got to go one , two , three , four
24 And this is what you 've got to do with most things that you do .
25 Well I , I , I , I think that you 've got to move in that direction rather than maintaining the status quo .
26 You feel as though you 're a Xerox machine : ‘ Today I 've got to sound like such-and-such , next week I 've got to sound like so-and-so … ’
27 I 've got to wait till half past seven tonight .
28 No I have n't I 've got to wait till half past five , it 's Friday int it ?
29 Yes , I mean I 've got to say to that , I thought they kept going ; two nothing down you know and I 've played in games where your playing top opposition and you can go under a little bit ca n't you .
30 S s so we 're looking for , in a sense , for three things , one is is er paving the way for industrialization , one is equality , one is the ideological movement to socialism and somehow you 've got to allow for all of those three .
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