Example sentences of "have [adv] got [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I 've just got off on the wrong foot with Harcourt . |
| 32 | It had been he himself , Lewis , who had finally got on to the man there who was in the process of completing the proofs for the forthcoming seminal opus entitled Pre-Conquest Craftsmanship in Southern Britain , by Theodore S. Kemp , MA , DPhil ; the man who had been closeted with Kemp that fateful morning , and who had confirmed that Kemp had not left the offices until about 12.30 p.m . |
| 33 | For ages he had been meaning to call in at a place down by the Elephant and Castle where they sold gramophone parts , but it was not until this morning that he had finally got around to it . |
| 34 | To her surprise , the gunfire did n't seem to be directed at them , and she wondered if the rebels and soldiers had finally got around to fighting each other directly . |
| 35 | As he had finally got back to Mrs Lorimer 's and was washing his face , he was wondering how much of the dirty water of the drug scene had washed over Rose and Steve . |
| 36 | She and Mandy had finally got in from last night 's fiasco around four in the morning . |
| 37 | I had just got up from my chair when the crash happened . |
| 38 | Eddie had just got back from work when they had a row in the kitchen . |
| 39 | Agnes had taken a smaller one ; she had just got back from her service 's registry . |
| 40 | She looked as if she had just got out of bed , and McLeish had a sudden vision of a dark basement flat with greasy mugs on every surface . |
| 41 | I had just got out of bed and was reaching for my dressing gown when an explosion shook the house . |
| 42 | Her hair was black and thick and looked tangled , as though she had just got out of bed and not brushed it . |
| 43 | And then he got , he got on the bus , it was a Midland Red and it was going to erm , er where , it was going out of town , anyway , and he shook hands with the driver , because I could n't help but , you know , notice what he was doing , and when I got when I was in the shop and getting the bread , the girls in there were telling me that he shook hands with them , because he had just got out of prison , and he was a born again Christian . |
| 44 | All I 've ever got out of it are a few funny smells and the tap-tap of my father 's stick . |
| 45 | He flapped his warrant card in automatic greeting and waved a hand at Catherine who had also got out of the car . |
| 46 | Dr Kumar said John Major 's attacks on the Liberal Democrats had clearly got through to middle-income earners terrified by the thought of a Labour Government . |
| 47 | It all hurt , but at least she had now got back at him , and she did n't have to see his face to know he was furious . |
| 48 | We got votes against our proposals with no reasons given at all , you 've now got down to the point of having no reasons at all for opposing what we want to do . |
| 49 | As I entered the committee room from the standard uncarpeted passage , I was given a friendly and businesslike handshake by the chairman , Lord Franks , who had courteously got out of his chair to greet his witness — an unfailing politeness that I gather he extended to every other witness . |
| 50 | Bragg and Morton had barely got back to their office when a young constable Poked his head round the door . |
| 51 | Well , you 've certainly got off to a cracking start , mocked a small ironic voice inside her . |
| 52 | You 've never got up to your proper weight again since the — since — since you — you know . ’ |
| 53 | I 'm ever so disappointed that I 've not been to Yugoslavia , I wanted to go to Dubrovnik , you know , it 's been on the sort of list but I 've never got round to it . |
| 54 | Salieri had never got on with Leopold II , and in 1790 he had been released from most of his court obligations , remaining as a kind of honorary kapellmeister . |
| 55 | The children emerged from the elaborate wrought-iron school gates , which were red with rust-preventer but had never got around to being painted . |
| 56 | Admittedly she had never got around to telling him that the invitation was off . |
| 57 | Listening to them , Folly realised that she had never got around to asking Luke what he had been doing at Lexy 's flat the night before . |
| 58 | ‘ They have had their ins and outs and have all got back into the side , ’ he says . |
| 59 | The group 's clarinettist Tracy Redfern and flautist Philippa Bradford , Nicola 's older sister , have just got back from a visit to Germany with Kirklees junior wind band . |
| 60 | The tale of L'Esquiriel goes on to tell of how the girl is approached by a young man playing with his erect penis ; she asks him what he has there — a squirrel , is the answer ; does she want it ? — yes please , let me hold it ; not yet , put your hand on it carefully ; it 's hot ! — ah , it 's just got out of its nest — and so on , until , after further euphemisms and foreplay , we return to the blunt world of crude speech as the squirrel enters the girl 's con to seek from her stomach the nuts she ate the day before . |