Example sentences of "you had to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was now called Growth and to get a decision on anything , you had to have a committee meeting , and as I pointed out , if it was going to continue this way , David would lose interest totally . |
| 2 | And in those days you had to have fifteen years ' training before anyone would really look at you . |
| 3 | This grandmother was a lasting influence , ‘ because she always insisted that you had to have the best of everything . |
| 4 | For plotting a course you had to have an accurate speedometer . |
| 5 | You had to have meals-on-wheels because that was what there was , and particularly the meals-on-wheels study we did in Islington [ Barker & Noble , 1983 ] which clearly indicated that half the recipients desperately needed meals-on-wheels , but they needed a lot of other things as well , and that for the other half they were inappropriate anyway . |
| 6 | T. B. You had to see what they were passing through and you had to have a chit and you had to time this chit and sign it and then you went to the hut and put it on the spike . |
| 7 | But I 'd disappeared because I 'd a man shouting ‘ fruit and vegetables ’ ( in those days , you had to have your name and address on your cart ) . |
| 8 | The sergeant was chasing you round and if they came round and saw you coming out of a shop , you had to have a good explanation . |
| 9 | You had to have legs like Marlene Dietrich to triumph over that get-up . |
| 10 | He never knocked his origins in American racing , but also he knew damned well that technologically America was behind and that in America you could do spectacular things but in grand prix racing you needed savvy , experience , strategy ; you had to have the smarts . |
| 11 | You had to have what they gave you and it was pretty revolting from what I remember . |
| 12 | ‘ You had to have a cert , dead cert , iron case before any prosecution case came up . |
| 13 | And to join the group you had to have killed a German soldier . |
| 14 | There was going to be very little room in Frederica Potter 's life from now on for this imposed world of people and chairs you had to have because they were there . |
| 15 | You had to have a reason for going from A to B , or else you were in trouble . |
| 16 | They only let us out for baths if there was enough staff , otherwise you had to have a strip wash . |
| 17 | But you had to have qualified for it by working , see ? end of the week and the only place I ever had one was at and because the foreman approached me , I 'd been out of work and got the job by writing to it , going to the library and it was in one of the London papers , they wanted men for the tool rooms . |
| 18 | And you had to have licences for your lorry then . |
| 19 | Were there any other special tools that you had to have ? |
| 20 | You had to have level furrows as the drill coulters had to enter the land at equal depth everywhere . |
| 21 | Er if you er if you had to have an augmented fourth what would you do ? |
| 22 | You mu You had to have so much in the Co |
| 23 | But you had to have it paid every quarter . |
| 24 | If the Co was up on the Tuesday you had to have it paid for the Saturday , at least . |
| 25 | If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter . |
| 26 | Oh no they did n't allow that you had to have the book . |
| 27 | You had to have your book . |
| 28 | And of course you had to have great dustsheets to keep the dust . |
| 29 | And the , the , the laugh I had was er , the last time they were advertising for spoolers they , you had to have I think it was O levels or something , |
| 30 | Er that you , you had to have your sleep otherwise you were , you were n't er you , you could n't a attend to your lectures and , and do your work the next day . |