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@Dinth: "have got" is used as an idiom for the simpler "have". That means it's allowed to break the rules! The idiom "have got" does not go easily into other tenses. (In this way it is similar to the expressions "I had better" and "I would rather", which don't change tense either.) Only rarely is it used in the past. In general it would best to treat it as we treat
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@nicky_santoro: Z wordreference.com:

Neithershe said she had got to go nor she said she had got some money offends my British ears. They are the accurate reported speech versions of "I have got/ I've got". Though when Gene Kelly sang "I got rhythm" in "An American in Paris", that was, deliberately, ungrammatical.

N.B. The Past Participle of "to get" in North America" is generally gotten, e.g. "I have gotten me
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