Example sentences of "'ve [vb pp] [prep] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So now I 've got to be cruel to be kind . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've got to be nice to her , because she helped to save my life . ’ |
| 3 | Rachel we 've got to be nice to it . |
| 4 | which means that we 've got to be polite to people and so on . |
| 5 | ‘ If we 're going to break through , we 've got to be prepared to be quick on the button and to say quite risky things . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 've got to be true to your readership . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've got to be fair to Kaiserslautern , they did not pull nine men back behind the ball , they had a go at us . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | See , Sue has n't come back to me , the science department has n't come to me so I 'm not , I may leave that and say , and do something like that next year in a module or wait until I 've finished again I do n't mind , that 's still something in my mind which I would like to do but because talking to the form tutor 's , what I had written down as a fait a complet erm they 're not too keen so therefore I opened up and say you know , which particular things they were interested in the banking one they are very interested in the environment one , yes , within the school tidy upping area that they would like to do but I 've got ta be able to , and I do n't when planting season is or if I wan na put , be able to put flowers in etcetera , you see what I mean ? |
| 10 | You 've got ta be able to not live in fear to say state your opinion . |
| 11 | Right , so I mean obviously if there 's anything that comes up as you go along I 've got ta be able to you know you and I , I 'll just chat it through , but when it comes to things like er me talk to you , sales talk to you for instance about a comparative question , you would n't know what I was talking about would you ? |