Example sentences of "have [adv] got [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah see I 've only got like erm two quid on me and I need to get home tomorrow and and I wo n't have anywhere to stay cos Dan and Honey are n't going and I 'd rather stick with them and Emma and Nick and just go back to erm Nick 's house
2 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 .
3 I I think the aspiration has obviously got to be that the E C can grow .
4 Mark ‘ Zippy ’ Pretty has finally got over his mid-life crisis by red-pointing Mecca at Raven Tor , and has been celebrating continuously for the last six weeks .
5 The riff at the beginning of This Charming Man has just got to be one of the best guitar riffs ever !
6 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 .
7 She is not smiling like a university lecturer who has just got off the train from Oxford , but like a peasant woman who has just arrived in a hard-class compartment from Saratov .
8 He looks not like a peasant from Saratov , but a Civil Servant Grade 5 who has just got off the train from Greenwich .
9 Cricket , and the afternoon session in the fourth Test Match between England and the West Indies has just got under way in Barbados .
10 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 . ’
11 Tony Garnett produces for Temple in California , and it has to be as far as he has ever got from the Ken Loach films with which he was associated before going to America .
12 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 .
13 Much work has been undertaken on this aircraft and it has clearly got into the blood of those at PE , so much so that should the SAAF Museum at Swartkop , near Pretoria , ever wish to move there , they would find a fearsome fight on their hands !
14 Actually the idea that that 's what happened has probably got round the parents already .
15 Er the sequence , I think , has also got to be done .
16 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 ) .
17 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 .
18 In the symbolic construction of this community ( Cohen 1985 ) boundary images of inside and outside were elaborated to an intensity , making us crucially aware and ‘ conscious … of dirt that has ambiguously got onto the wrong side of the frontier ’ ( Leach 1976 : 61 ) .
19 No , says Dusan Trancik , the Slovakian maker of seven features who has frequently got into trouble with the authorities .
20 In the process , job evaluation could terminally undermine clinical grading , making a new system virtually redundant before it has even got off the ground .
21 He has even got in the habit of joining in , stumbling after me ( not that I 'm very dazzling ) like a giraffe .
22 Blisters are a sign that moisture has either got below the felt or that the felt was laid on a damp surface .
23 Technology has meantime got round the IBM problem by going to its OEM customers such as Bull HN Information Systems , which supplies RS/6000s .
24 If perhaps the Government were to fund victim support properly , Erm , Mr who was burgled and has never got over it might perhaps have had a visit and some counselling from a victim support worker , and that would be a very good thing .
25 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 . ’
26 And er he 'd only got to sort of look at you and er that was it .
27 at party yeah I was in the toilet yeah and this bloke comes in and goes oh and I 'd only got like a hit 's worth left
28 They 'd all got off the bus together ; this one had gone into a truckers ’ cafe for cigarettes and a carton of coffee .
29 He 'd just got off the train .
30 You used it again when you 'd just got off the train from Paddington tonight , when you pretended you were waiting for Mrs Downes — ’
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