Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] got to " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother was reading to me from A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia , and I can remember exactly where she had got to in the book when , thinking I looked feverish , she took my temperature and put me to bed . |
| 2 | ‘ Any idea where she 's got to ? ’ |
| 3 | Signposting is important in many aspects of essay-writing : in showing your reader where you have got to , how your paragraphs connect together and which words are your own and which are quoted . |
| 4 | where we 've got to with our recycling initiative , and then we can look at that grant in the light of what we 've been told by Carol . |
| 5 | This brief outline gives some idea of what has been going on and where we have got to , a brief outline of the key tasks , and the progress made on these . |
| 6 | Well I mean surely it 's , that 's the point now is to try to make a fair erm law and one that is ideologically erm designed seeing we 've got to power , or we 've got certainty of obtaining power , therefore land ownership has got to be land ownership which has been capitalism Marxist |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | I 've no idea where they 've got to . |
| 9 | Can I just say then that I think either it 's got to be blocked completely so they ca n't jump over the bridge , or it 's got to be unblocked . |
| 10 | If I get a movie script which means that I 've got to be away from home for a long period then I turn it down . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ My trouble is that I 've got to be hurt to really start fighting . |
| 12 | Once I had got to grips with how to work the machine I noticed that the harmoniser in the machine did n't appear to work properly : ie. if I set the interval to a major 3rd , the processor would intermittently switch between a major 3rd and a minor 3rd . |
| 13 | She could see that she had got to it at last . |
| 14 | When the development officer realised ‘ that she had got to such a low ebb ’ she put in a paid worker for a regular two hours per week . |
| 15 | At first interview she said the strain of looking after her mother-in-law was considerable , that it was putting a strain on her marriage in that she and her husband were always quarrelling these days , and that she had got to the point when ‘ I feel I ca n't go on any longer ’ . |
| 16 | Because , in the current climate of debate , the drive to preserve the boundaries of class through culture can dissolve ( slip ? ) too easily into a concern with race , with the myth of white ethnicity , the myth , that is , that you 've got to be white to be British . |
| 17 | This can mean , in effect , that you 've got to be licensed for as many copies as you have machines . |
| 18 | no well because your looking down on every body else you tend to feel erm , well I feel sort of that you 've got to er feel responsible for them and look after them |
| 19 | Now which are the ones that you 've got to group ? |
| 20 | Whatever it might be that interests you , but something that you 've got to be thinking about , in your share time . |
| 21 | Right well that 's something that 's something that you 've got to you 've got to differentiate . |
| 22 | Also it is a common feature of course that you need to order the resources , that you have the resource in terms of people or the economy or the armed forces , you need to order those resources to try to achieve your ends erm and we 'll look at that later , the aims that you 're going for in foreign policy so they 're common , that you 're in the same environment , that you 've got to m er whatever the resources you have you have to try to organize them to achieve your ends and so on . |
| 23 | And er , nobody will phone you and say that you 've got to be here , there and everywhere . |
| 24 | You talk about asking questions you talk about the product that you 've got to up to the question the problems that you . |
| 25 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 26 | It just generally makes you more aware of the closness of the ground and that you 've got to be more careful at these sort of heights |
| 27 | But during the period of the war the bakers sadly fell down to about the middle of the table through the old saying that you 've got to be patriotic and help the war effort . |
| 28 | You 've got your questions and of course I could answer them Nicodemus I could tell the why 's and the wherefore 's of this , and of that , I could give you all the details and all the the the things that you want to know but , they 're not really important the real issue for you , Nicodemus , is that you have got to be born again ! |
| 29 | But erm so she 's got to , you 're gon na make a list of people |
| 30 | Jobs are scarce at the moment , so you 've got to be realistic . ’ |