Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] got [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe the police has made me this way , but do you not see that if you 're going to come in here asking me questions about my family , if you 're going to want to know all these things , I 've got to be able to trust you ? |
| 2 | He admitted the strategy posed risks to his party , but said : ‘ I 've got to be prepared , to continue to be prepared , to take risky positions to keep in the game . ’ |
| 3 | So now I 've got to be cruel to be kind . |
| 4 | ‘ I feel like he 's the child , and I 've got to be the adult . ’ |
| 5 | Even more hammily : ‘ But — and here 's the bad news — our first priority — and I 've got to be blunt and straightforward with you — is to raise the number of students going through higher education to double what it is at present , by 96/97 . ’ |
| 6 | The Brighton-based fighter , who stopped Benn in their WBO middleweight title fight in November 1990 , added : I 've nothing to prove by fighting Benn again , so if we do meet I 've got to be given my passport to retirement . ’ |
| 7 | He comes once a week with it and I 've got to be careful to make them last . |
| 8 | The scenario was that there was this normal , everyday family being filmed in their home at their most private moments and , in one scene , where a young boy is being pressurised into getting married , they all leave the room and he turns to the camera and says something like ‘ I 've got to be careful here . |
| 9 | And I said to him — we had a fairly frank relationship — I said , ‘ Listen , Ron , I 'm going to be here tomorrow , and you 're not ; and I 've got to be comfortable . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've got to be realistic about adjustment . |
| 11 | I mean , I 've got an album full of new music and I 've got to be very careful . |
| 12 | Obviously I 've got to be extremely careful about what I say concerning the referee . |
| 13 | Choking back his disappointment after his own team 's splendid wins against Liverpool and Aston Villa , he said : ‘ I 've got to be humble and say we were beaten by a very good side . |
| 14 | It 's a warning that we do n't have a divine right to the British Grand Prix , though I 've got to be confident about Silverstone . ’ |
| 15 | Now , I 've got to be off . |
| 16 | Of course , she 'd be delighted and so would I , since I 've got to be there . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've got to be rated doubtful but I 'm still hoping , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've got to be fair to Kaiserslautern , they did not pull nine men back behind the ball , they had a go at us . ’ |
| 19 | Then glancing at his watch , he said , ‘ Come on , get up out of that ; I 've got to be away , my train goes at four o'clock . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 've got to be patient with players in the side but I ca n't afford to be patient for too long . ’ |
| 21 | I 've got to be rated at number one , ahead of Fatima . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ But I know I 've got to be as successful over the next five to eight years as I have been so far . |
| 23 | But once in the ring , I 've got to be tough . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | It 's one thing if you 're fully staffed but if you think that whichever of my boys is on guard duty for the day is responsible for the shopping as well as the cooking , and I have to put another boy on guard as substitute to him and another at the disposition of the local magistrate , and I 've two out on motor-bike patrol — where am I when a case like this comes up and I 've got to be out ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I like a joke , ’ said Archie , ‘ but I 've got to be off , if yer 'll excuse me . |
| 27 | I 'm black and I 've got to be better than the next applicant , but I do n't let it hold me back . |
| 28 | I 've got to be up early — I must leave here before seven . |
| 29 | Actually , I like a nice bath now and then , and I 've got to be as fresh as possible for Tina , my childhood sweetheart . |
| 30 | Even now , five years later , I 've got to be ever so careful — because he feels it 's my money we live on . |