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got

Expressing obligation. (Southern US, with to) must; have (to). (Southern US, nonstandard) have (Southern US, AAVE, euphemistic, slang) to be murdered must, have (to)

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Simple sentences

We got the meeting over with quickly.
I waited for her till it got dark.
Have you got a lighter?
I got lost when I visited you for the first time.
The thief got away with the money.
You need not have got up so early.
Sorry, I've got my hands full now.
Jane was on top of the world when she got a record contract.
The air conditioner has got out of order.
Have all the passengers got on board yet?
You got yourself a nice guy.
The lie got him in trouble when his boss found out the truth.
I've got work to do, so piss off and leave me alone.
Back in high school, I got up at 6 a.m. every morning.
My computer has got to be useful for something.
I've got a headache.
I'm at the hospital. I got struck by lightning.
His essay gave only a superficial analysis of the problem, so it was a real surprise to him when he got the highest grade in the class.
She got sick this weekend.
Have you got a beard already?
He's got a face like a month of wet Sundays.
I've got a pacemaker.
I've got a frog in my throat.
I've got mosquito bites all over my arm.
It's high time you got going.
You've got to learn to hold your tongue.
Have you got a pen?
You've got a lot of guts.

Movie subtitles

Don't you know the danger of another scandal broke loose? -I got it.
If you've got the right education.
But no, the Chinese got there 2,000 years ago.
What was important was what you did when you got there.
The English got better stimulants, too.
They got the coffee house while the Chinese got the opium den.
I am so stoked we got paired together, Elder Price.
We got Mrs. Brown to sing like an African for you.
He got caught last week trying to rape a baby.
You say you got a problem?
Who got the ring back from Gollum?
You've got what?
We've got a little more.
Bring me anything that he writes. Got it?
Go get the others, Ahmed, I've got a surprise.
You finally got it. It's all here in my editorial.
You've got a new nightgown.
I got some proper clothes.
He's lucky he only got a fine.
I got an idea. - Really?
Ahmed got his Ph.D. in law with honors.
He got orders from Paris, he doesn't like.
Well, I got to confess, I'm always getting into trouble.
Hey, I got to be somewhere, pal.
What are you gonna do about it, punk? You got something to say?
Got to go to Paris tomorrow.
Yeah, I. I got to get away. That's too bad.
Do you know anyone who's got any strawberry milk?
Yeah, I think Donnie's got some.
You know, in case a teacher sees or something. But you got this invisibility ring, right?
And then my body got all tingly, and my chest got numb.
You got the money?
Yeah, you got the stuff?
What, you got your period right now?
You got a heavy period?
I got ripped off.
No, you didn't get ripped off. I got ripped off!
When a kid owes me money, that makes me money. Now instead of paying a catcher 20 bucks, I got one for free. It's all profit.
Well, I was just trying to figure out how your brother's still getting PBJs into the yard even after Pork Chop got busted.
What do we got here?

News and current affairs

This rich habitat supports remarkable biodiversity - or did before the oil companies got there - and more than 30 million local inhabitants, who depend on the local ecosystems for their health and livelihoods.
The Fund got the message, and now the fix is in.
Such a system does not exist on a global scale today, which may explain how America got into such trouble.
One of President Clinton's problems, they said, was that the ceremonial portions of the job bored him - and thus he got himself into big trouble.
Yet remarkably, Bush asked for, and got, a reckless tax cut for the rich.
On previous occasions, whenever the financial system came to the brink of a breakdown, the authorities got their act together and pulled it back from the brink.
In relative terms, rich countries got even richer.
By contrast, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's approach is another example of the kind of shell games that got America into its mess.
Fischer certainly got attention back then, but information was filtered very differently than it is today.
They concluded that an early warning system for democratic crises in the region would help generate action before matters got out of control, as in Bolivia today.
Under dramatically inauspicious circumstances, Mexico has finally got itself a new president last Friday.
Evidently, the market got some things - like the value of certain financial securities - horrendously wrong.
This year, we got an answer: a new Five-Year Plan that makes environmental protection a priority.
As so often in the past, this latest reform effort hit the limits of permissible Party tolerance almost before it got going.
Then I got distracted for about 40 years.
The resulting breakthroughs not only got Neil Armstrong to the moon in 1969, but also made it possible for Apple to introduce the first Mac in 1976 and IBM to debut the first PC five years later.
And there is evidence that they got advanced countries to pay more attention to poor nations.
To my surprise, it was not WWII that I learned about; rather, I got my first glimpse into the emotions that my own relatives experienced, as they fought and survived the war.
I argued at Davos that central bankers also got it wrong by misjudging the threat of a downturn and failing to provide sufficient regulation.
The only thing we got wrong was how bad banks' lending practices were, how non-transparent banks really were, and how inadequate their risk management systems were.
BERKELEY - Getting out of our current financial mess requires understanding how we got into it in the first place.
Indeed, its realistic use of profanity and its depiction of the spiritual vacuum that grips China got it banished from one of Beijing's TV channels.
By floating the currency Brazil got some breathing room to cut interest rates and head off depression.
Having enjoyed a few days of Bush-bashing, India got on with the job of bowing to pre-election political pressures.
You simply got everything you wanted (and probably much more) with the purchase of a computer.

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