Example sentences of "'ve [verb] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.

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1 We 've decided to set up a campaign to put pressure on the Government and we need someone to run the office .
2 ‘ Well , I 've decided to stay on a bit to settle him . ’
3 Erm you 've got to put up a show
4 I 've got to take up a new attitude with him .
5 She wants to run through them all and then you 've got to fill in a piece of paper on which three pieces you 'd like to do , and al you know , she wants the cheque and full details of what name to go on the certificate and that sort of thing .
6 no it 's not , mum says you 've got to fill in a form and say who 's talked and how old we are and
7 And we 've got to pick up a mare that Ibn Fayoud 's bought out there .
8 Now going back to administration , I 'd wade through , and it might say that the policy 's being delivered , so I 've got to set up a policy delivery call .
9 We 've got to set up a proper complaints procedure , so that people know how to complain about Social Services , although I doubt very much whether anybody would ever want to complain about Oxfordshire 's Social Services , and so on .
10 Well so you 've got to get up a ladder to get at it .
11 ‘ A somewhat sadistic variation on Warner Baxter 's famous speech to Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street : ‘ You 're going out there a youngster , but you 've got to come back a star . ’
12 They 've got to a adjust the tie backs , they have n't put the tie backs up yet because they 've got to come down a bit , I just hung them up to let them drop a bit .
13 You 've got to start back a long way before you get to the final decisions on costs and budgets .
14 She said oh I 've got to write down a credit limit .
15 ‘ Dexter , I think we 've got to step back a bit .
16 ‘ I 've got to work out a new course . ’
17 But since we 've won in Barcelona , we 've had to go around a lot to dinners and appearing on television shows like A Question of Sport and Blue Peter .
18 ‘ I admit I 've had to cut back a little just recently , but I 'm hoping to get back into my stride really soon . ’
19 When people walk into an auditorium , one thing ought to happen and another ought not : their attention should be grabbed and held but at the same time they should n't fall flat on their faces because you 've failed to gaffer down a loose wire .
20 This is the second time you 've failed to pass on a vital message .
21 " And look at me , I 've managed to pick up a baby without even getting married , have n't I , Jamesie ? "
22 The Abingdon-based Morland brewers will know tomorrow if they 've managed to fight off a hostile takeover bid .
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