Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] got to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something has obviously got to be done to make sure that these simple shelters , which are there to offer overnight shelter for anyone in need of it , are not used for holiday centres and the like . |
| 2 | I I think the aspiration has obviously got to be that the E C can grow . |
| 3 | ‘ I have only just begun discussions with Celtic over renewing my contract and it has not got to the stage of the manager making me an offer , ’ said the player whose ability to impose himself on the opposition might be thought worthy of international recognition . |
| 4 | The riff at the beginning of This Charming Man has just got to be one of the best guitar riffs ever ! |
| 5 | You have another country along that coast , Nigeria , which has just got to the stage where it 's got through its forest and it 's not exporting anything at all , if anything it 's importing . |
| 6 | For the bluff , reticent Arthur such wit suggests the Christmas spirit has already got to him but he added realistically that his decision depends on the state of the ground : ‘ If it 's bottomless he wo n't run . ’ |
| 7 | I think there has always got to be for any executive — and for any employee for that matter — new challenges , new frontiers to keep them enthused . |
| 8 | Er the sequence , I think , has also got to be done . |
| 9 | Your alloted space in purgatory is reserved the moment you decide , for whatever reason , that a bottle of excellent but inexpensive champagne ( Safeway £7.49 ) must make way for a grander counterpart like Bollinger ‘ 83 ( Sainsbury 's £20.45 ) or , if the devil has really got to you , Dom Perignon ‘ 82 ( £44.99 at Tesco ) . |
| 10 | Of course I must add a , a word of warning here , because whereas once upon a time many people used to be able to ring the Weather Centres or a Met Office to get their own personal forecast , which was very nice , we enjoyed doing this , it has now got to the stage where so many people are trying to ring us that we just can not deal with all the enquiries personally , and we 're looking into ways and means of erm providing forecasts of this sort of nature , they 're general sort of nature , by other means , such as radio and television . |
| 11 | This has n't got to much to do with his gangling , freakishly elongated frame , which he 's used to evolve a unique form of comedic body language , flapping around on stage as he does like a dislocated stick insect , the missing link between Jerry Lewis and Pee Wee Herman . |
| 12 | But on the other hand they 're not having to deal so much with another executor there is n't there has n't got to be so much to and fro correspondence and therefore the workload will be somewhat less and that 's likely to balance the extra responsibility element . |
| 13 | ‘ She has n't got to you yet , then ? ’ |
| 14 | You know , but there not , there lovely , lovely people and they 're do anything for you , but we say to them , you know , oh well life 's boring and your know sort of , and , but , life has n't got to be boring , when you 've got no money wor worries life should n't be boring . |
| 15 | He has n't got to and all that now has he ? |
| 16 | Its the twelfth of May and it has n't got to me . |
| 17 | He 'd only got to be told by Charlie that he 'd be leaving the High Street by the bridge and walking along the local river . ’ |
| 18 | And er he 'd only got to sort of look at you and er that was it . |
| 19 | There 's some story about a Mars bar , apparently but we 'ave n't got to that bit yet . |
| 20 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
| 21 | Talking him into there 's not , no they do n't got to be doing meals or owt upstairs . |
| 22 | So we 've literally got to dove-tail this into whatever other current arrangements they have , including any other P H I they 've already got . |
| 23 | ‘ They 've obviously got to be able to speak to people at all levels , ’ said a supervisor of his field men . |
| 24 | ‘ Anyway , I 've obviously got to be here if you 're going to be leading the good life , since I 'm a major component of it . ’ |
| 25 | What you 've obviously got to why did I mention yeah , you marry , but if something 's be down , is n't gon na change . |
| 26 | This is the kind of thing that we really ought to be addressing because this actually addresses the safety of people in this county , not only the safety of people , this addresses the safety of property as well and there 's no disagreement about the fact that this enormous development that 's happened over the last few years in an area where you 've got a regular traffic snarl-ups mean that you have got a potential disaster there on your hands and we 're jolly lucky we have n't any more serious incidents than we 've had already and so I can see no reason why these two mo these two amendments should n't both happily be accepted though I 'm very cynical about the number of times we 've spent the airport money already and sooner or later we 've obviously got to actually seriously address that but the important thing is that we do all take it seriously and it seems that we all do now take it seriously . |
| 27 | But you must be erm erm you 've obviously got to be Guinness addicted . |
| 28 | We 've all got to be looking over our shoulders . |
| 29 | We 've all got to be healthy enough to challenge the situation . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've only got to the end of the year but my family will be carrying on where I left off . |