Example sentences of "'ve got to " in BNC.
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| 31 | You 've got to be joking . |
| 32 | So now I 've got to be cruel to be kind . |
| 33 | ‘ I feel like he 's the child , and I 've got to be the adult . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ You 've got to be prepared to die for what you believe in , ’ Elinor said passionately with a toss of her wayward locks . |
| 35 | ‘ Just because you 're married does n't mean you 've got to be Siamese twins , ’ I said loftily . |
| 36 | ‘ To get anywhere in this game you 've got to be stubborn , bombastic , what may appear to be ignorant . |
| 37 | Every culture in Britain at the moment has a similar philosophy as far as size goes : if you want to look good , be desirable , you 've got to be thin . |
| 38 | Or , ‘ We 've got to be high-tech , use computers ’ at the other . |
| 39 | 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 . ’ |
| 40 | 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 . ’ |
| 41 | You 've got to be polite . |
| 42 | Clive , you 've got to … |
| 43 | My colleagues will be wondering where I 've got to . |
| 44 | In fact we 've got to , because a really efficient foundry will produce more castings than we can use ourselves . ’ |
| 45 | He comes once a week with it and I 've got to be careful to make them last . |
| 46 | ‘ Well , you know what you 've got to do , you 've got to be careful . ’ |
| 47 | You 've got to be so careful . ’ |
| 48 | ‘ You 've got to be kidding , pal . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | It will be good , it will be an achievement , they must learn to live together , they 've got to , and they can , they can already , they 're both so wonderful and so intelligent and they like and respect each other very much , that 's absolutely clear . |
| 51 | They will because they must , they 've got to . |
| 52 | You 've got to be green today , it seems . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | They 've got to be worse now , have n't they ? |
| 55 | He was incredible ; he could shoot rounds of 64 and 65 any day of the week — and to do that you 've got to be a reasonable putter . |
| 56 | 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 . ’ |
| 57 | ‘ There 's no other wave like it : when you surf Pipe , you 've got to be ready . |
| 58 | ‘ You 've got to , ’ Nutty said doggedly . |
| 59 | ‘ You 've got to . |
| 60 | ‘ You 've got to . |