Example sentences of "got to [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have got to be up front and open , although that does n't always mean telling everyone everything . ’ |
| 2 | twenty , fifteen , whatever years , whatever years , and in that time you 've got to be pretty sure that you can do that |
| 3 | and I mean I 'd love the Bluecoat but I mean you 've got to be pretty clever for that . |
| 4 | And that brings us back to your point , that there are times when you , you , you know you have , in order to get your statutory rights you 've got to be pretty firm . |
| 5 | ‘ You ca n't drive round it in a car and say , ‘ I 've seen the Broads ’ , because you can only get to the most beautiful and interesting parts by boat or on foot , and you 've got to be pretty determined . |
| 6 | And you 've got to be pretty enthusiastic to get it . |
| 7 | We 've got to be downright nasty . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah so so you 've got to be slightly careful but I mean if you already can use theodolites and things then in a sense I mean what do they mean by experience ? |
| 9 | Erm and er so you know but you 've just got to be slightly careful I think of the figures and erm i if if you know it 's much better if you can talk to the the |
| 10 | I 've got to be completely frank with you . |
| 11 | Your organization has got to be just right you know . |
| 12 | Oh it 's got to be reasonably legible . |
| 13 | We gave [ the library manager ] an enormous list of requirements and he has met most of them … and I think we 've got to be reasonably satisfied because the rest of the school have got to have their whack as well . |
| 14 | ‘ You 've got to be awfully careful with some of them . ’ |
| 15 | I wrote back saying , get on with it , and incidentally we overestimated the shipment cost , brought it down to about half , got to be awfully careful there , because some of these bits are so big , they , and today he said , customer will make decision only after ten days , since final size of assortment is under preparation , meantime with your offered price and revised delivery time , it looks very difficult to book this order . |
| 16 | Well well er yes well from what I 've already learnt , and I 've got to be rather blunt in this matter , I 'm afraid that Carol 's expectations |
| 17 | It 's hard to put yourself on the line ; you need incredible conviction , and you 've got to be dead sure about what you 're doing , because leading a band is absolutely riddled with paranoia . |
| 18 | Why has everything got to be so squeaky dean as soon as the meal is finished ? ’ |
| 19 | You 've got to be so careful . ’ |
| 20 | I 've got to be so careful , that 's the trouble , I never know when my boss is suddenly going to bite my head off . |
| 21 | If he is so right in offering the ambulance staff 6.5 per cent , if the ambulance staff are so unreasonable in rejecting it , what has he got to be so afraid of in going to arbitration which would end this dispute this afternoon ? |
| 22 | It will be all right because it 's got to be all right , it 's necessary — without it the world ends . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But I know I 've got to be as successful over the next five to eight years as I have been so far . |
| 24 | It had got to be as near as thi thinness of tissue paper . |
| 25 | Actually , I like a nice bath now and then , and I 've got to be as fresh as possible for Tina , my childhood sweetheart . |
| 26 | They 're out for a laugh , I mean Charlie wo n't even tell me who he fancies because erm he says , you know , he said to me , you know , and in , in , in , and in his exact words he said you 've got to be really stupid to tell anyone anything in this place and I said yeah but I 'm not a proper Haileyburian I 've just come in , you know he goes yeah but you 're gon na get that way |
| 27 | and er it 's that warm , it 's got to be really cold , I mean you could n't wear it in here on a Sunday night |
| 28 | Er it has n't happened here too much yet but it could be there in the near future , so we 've all got to be really careful about that . |
| 29 | no I know , they have to wait that 's it , got to be quite left in the shop today were n't we ? |
| 30 | Mr Mallory had said to him once , ‘ With all due respect , Father , I think you 've got to be more broadminded these days . |