Example sentences of "have got a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , good child , she teased herself , if only you 'd done this at school and art college , you 'd have got a first . |
| 2 | ‘ He must have got a puncture , ’ Michael offered . |
| 3 | ‘ If she had married before she died , the sister would only have got a small legacy . |
| 4 | So West Indies won by an innings and 156 runs ; yet had England managed to hold on for just another three or four minutes they would have got a draw , for the heavens opened and further play would have been impossible . |
| 5 | The keeper on duty at the time might have got a message out before the lighthouse went . |
| 6 | Pity you were n't a captain , then you 'd have got a bigger disability pension . ’ |
| 7 | They may have got a number one , but it cost them ! |
| 8 | ‘ Someone in his financial position could easily have got a doctor 's certificate to pull him out of tournaments but to his credit he never even considered it . ’ |
| 9 | Thought I might have got a chance at Pat Weaver , but you 're too efficient for me , Mister Doyle . ’ |
| 10 | Manager Billy Bonds said : ‘ I thought we would have got a few back after our last few results , but this seems to be par for the course lately . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I may have got a better deal by moving to Australia , and I still have ambitions to play there . |
| 12 | COULD N'T SHE HAVE GOT A ROBOT ? |
| 13 | ‘ But I was surprised at her type ; you would think she could have got a job , a decent one somewhere . |
| 14 | The testers might have got a clue from this that such a question was entirely artificial , constructed out of test situations and irrelevant to children who did not go to school and so were not used to being exposed to such tests . |
| 15 | It is ironic that if Len had stuck to his nails and string — however crude that method sounds — he would have got a perfect ellipse ! |
| 16 | This worked as a part of the discourse he was involved in ( the interview ) even if he did use a grammatical construction which might well have got a red line through it if he had written it as part of a school essay . |
| 17 | I could have got a nine to five job but I never wanted one . |
| 18 | At sea level we would have got a different picture as the man-eating breakers punched against the rocky coast . |
| 19 | You wo n't have got a postcard yet . ’ |
| 20 | If I was outside I would have got a lot better treatment . |
| 21 | . Well , you had what you went in you see , er you may get a you may have got a a trench-coat , or a poncho , you know , er er sort of a big cloak , er but er uniform in the in the accepted military sense , er , no . . |
| 22 | The final sting in the tail , however , is that adding a decent keyboard to your Spectrum is , while adding to its usefulness , going to raise its price to a level where you 'd have got a decent keyboard included in the cost . |
| 23 | ‘ You must have got a few in the Houses of Parliament , ’ he said , smiling . |
| 24 | He would have got a shock if he could have seen my face . |
| 25 | This set Jean Powers off on a torrent of exclamations and denials so that Helen could not have got a word in had she wished to ; she stood and looked at Giles Carnaby and tried to be calm . |
| 26 | And then I , and I made this bit of a faux pas , I says , oh you must have got a very good rate , cos I knew she 'd been retired years and years , you see . |
| 27 | They should have got a self certificate and then sent it on to Road for you . |
| 28 | When I left in here at the when the receivers come in I got a wee job in Centre , up the town , and I had , I could have got a job in a hosiery in but I did n't fancy travelling down there , so I took that wee job up there . |
| 29 | But you just had to do that sort of thing , I , we used to feel awfully sorry for the patients but you had , they had do it because they would n't have got a wash otherwise , there was so mu so much to do . |
| 30 | Surely , however busy you were , you could have got a message through ? |