Example sentences of "have got a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If she had married before she died , the sister would only have got a small legacy . |
| 2 | I 'd have got a nasty shock otherwise . |
| 3 | That was a great great left footed shot and could have got a nasty deflection , it 's luckily for Shrewsbury it went straight through everybody and er over for a goal kick . |
| 4 | Oh , good child , she teased herself , if only you 'd done this at school and art college , you 'd have got a first . |
| 5 | I could have got a nine to five job but I never wanted one . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ But , even if I had felt inclined to do so , there was no way I could have got a decent night 's rest on those small , short bunks next door . ’ |
| 8 | Pity you were n't a captain , then you 'd have got a bigger disability pension . ’ |
| 9 | The cat must have got a bigger shock . |
| 10 | You should have got a bigger size in n it Dawn ? |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | ‘ I may have got a better deal by moving to Australia , and I still have ambitions to play there . |
| 13 | The 39-year-old Briton could not have got a better start to his new career with the Indycar team owned by Paul Newman and Carl Haas , but now has every driver on his tail . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You must have got a few in the Houses of Parliament , ’ he said , smiling . |
| 16 | Mind you I heard he could hear it in the background so he must have got a few kids |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 19 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 20 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 21 | At sea level we would have got a different picture as the man-eating breakers punched against the rocky coast . |
| 22 | You might not have minded giving up your sweets , because you , you 'd have got a different kind of gratification . |
| 23 | She thought Emma might have got a commended or highly commended . |
| 24 | An an er , and er then they must have got a massive erm in a couple of months time , you know , they 're not gon na be able to control him , he might be , well if he hits me , I 'll just hit him back . |
| 25 | They 'll not be as lively as they ought to be come morning , but tonight will have got a whole lot of unhappy things out of Seb 's system . |