Example sentences of "have got [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought that if I ran and it was a coronary , it should have got worse , but I ‘ ve run round the block and it has n't , so it must be indigestion . ’ |
| 2 | By the next election , the lot of the Tottenham poor will have got worse , and the chance of alleviating it through economic growth will have receded . |
| 3 | Industrial output has stabilised , too , after falling over 60% in 1991–92 , the most precipitous economic collapse in Eastern Europe ( having fallen that far , it could hardly have got worse ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Things could have got worse . |
| 5 | What people tend to do is they answer a question that they 've revised well and they can easily answer and they spend an hour and a half on it and then they fi they do , I mean you know you see them answering they write you pages and pages and pages and it 's a perfect answer and they get maybe ninety percent but had they spent about half as much time they 'd have got seventy percent anyway because they knew most of the important bits . |
| 6 | We prefer this because we believe that this is the way in which we can learn from our mistakes ; and that in finding that our conjecture was false we shall have learnt much about the truth , and shall have got nearer to the truth . |
| 7 | But I should have got higher if I 'd been stopping . |
| 8 | Well if you 'd have got eight , nine , you 'd been in ! |
| 9 | That was only meant for three , you could n't have got four in it |
| 10 | On the Lord Chancellor 's own figures , over 30% of those who should have got legal aid next year will now lose it . |
| 11 | I might never have got such a chance again . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd never have got such a bargain on my own , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Small parties suffer : were there only three seats , Blue would get two , Red one , White and Green none ( where ‘ Lime ’ would have got one ) . |
| 14 | We bought one ( a mistake , we should have got two ) to supplement an old ladle-handle type of thing dug out from my past , and a hammer and a few pegs to be on the safe side . |
| 15 | They would have got two of us . |
| 16 | For an ordinary assault , Mr Mitchell would have got two years in jail . |
| 17 | You could n't have got two people more different . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , I would n't have got all that much , but she would n't even agree to that , greedy cow . ’ |
| 19 | yeah , that 's the only thing I 've , it 's the only horse he might not have got all the way round this time |
| 20 | . If she 'd have got done the pho photocopier machine she would have got , she would have got all she deserves ! |
| 21 | You see , I could have got all the roller blinds to fit that conservatory . |
| 22 | He must have got that off the bolt . |
| 23 | So maybe that implies that when do the kids have got that ee ending . |
| 24 | I was just thinking if it was on a page you could have got that |
| 25 | Nevertheless , a broad understanding of the present Jovian interior , and how it could have got that way after its initial formation , now exists . |
| 26 | At that time , I could have got that girl a bed straight away in a decent place — I am not talking about a mattress on a floor . |
| 27 | Well I have to say that as a result of last night 's session I have a much healthier view of Hydro Electric and I do so would I have got that from the programme ? |
| 28 | Yes , they rationalize but I would n't have got that from a programme . |
| 29 | Well research suggests that something like eighty eight percent , that 's research by Klaus and Bass , Klaus and Bass nineteen eighty-eight , actually I may have got that date wrong so I 'm not sure you should quote the date , anyway it 's Klaus and Bass . |
| 30 | They please , I thought in context you would have got that . |