Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] got it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly my personal reaction when hearing of the unexpected death of someone I know has always been , ‘ I must wait to have it confirmed in some sort of irrevocable way because I 'm sure I must have got it wrong ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ You must have got it wrong . |
| 3 | I must have got it wrong . ’ |
| 4 | Do you wan na taste it to check cos I might 've got it wrong ? |
| 5 | You might have got it ready for me ! |
| 6 | I bet he could have got it cheaper if he 'd have waited . |
| 7 | Cooke recalled how , like everyone else , he was utterly baffled as to how the pollsters could have got it all so wrong — until , a few days later , he found himself in a train sitting opposite a Republican county chairman . |
| 8 | ‘ Is there any possibility , ’ Secretary of State Donaldson asked , ‘ that the British scientists could have got it wrong ? |
| 9 | Erm quite rightly the director said that predictions in terms of residential admissions and nursing home admissions would be easier to make this year than last year and I accept it was very difficult then year but I 'd just like to know how close the actual outcome is likely to be to the original prediction , really for information , not because I think you could have got it any closer than did but it would be just interesting to know what the s the gap was . |
| 10 | Sorry , just one other point on W O P there , I may have got it wrong , did you say earlier on that er , that if you get H I V , so the W O P benefit is n't payable , what about the al , did we say the allocation of W O P will still continue ? |