Example sentences of "you had [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , they could n't get it into their heads that you had to sit on the floor . |
| 2 | Within the assembly council I personally valued your contributions the very courteous and thoughtful way in which you presented these and the courage with which you expressed at times the stand that you had to take for the interest of the Board . |
| 3 | erm if you had to go on the road it would have been different . |
| 4 | Once you were promoted you had to go to the bar on first entering the mess and drink a pint of whatever drink you designated without taking your lips from the glass . |
| 5 | do n't you remember you had to go to the housing office |
| 6 | You , you were n't auto sort of automatically allowed out till ten you had to go to the office and say , please may I stay out till ten . |
| 7 | If a docker , you got to help the dockers down the hold , if you ai n't got the crane driving to do , you had to go in the warehouse if there ai n't nothing to do . |
| 8 | So if it peaks two years before you plan to cash in , you do not lose because you had to wait for the money . |
| 9 | You had to wait for the flash and details of the changes in interest rates on Black Wednesday — a day of vital interest for small businessmen and mortgage holders up and down the country . |
| 10 | Okay Suzanne , now you had to slacken off the halyard to let me tie that last knot so if you could tighten it up again that will pull the sail up to the top of the mast . |
| 11 | Or do without is n't it you know , you had to stock for the sake of getting the business . |
| 12 | If you had to walk into the lion 's den , better have someone on your side . |
| 13 | And you had to run along the plank to get on . |
| 14 | Otherwise what they got some of the latest cranes out down there , you had to come off the barrel , go up the jib , come down again , then up again . |
| 15 | You had to think about the changes you needed to make to your operation , and you had to support your recommendations with some detailed calculations . |
| 16 | we had to run to get a worm , but we erm we erm you had to get past the foxes without them touching you , if you touch them you wo n't be able to get a worm |
| 17 | You had to get to the end of them . |
| 18 | We were told , because of the shortage of paper , we were told only to use secondhand papers er paper that had already been used for letters or memos when writing to the Clerks ' Department and erm we erm used to get the grubbiest paper that we could and then you had to condense it and type it erm without too much space and erm that went over to the Clerks ' Department , then erm when it got over th oh sorry you had to trim off the edges erm so that there was no spare paper left around the memo so that er you know there was just this little bit of paper with the |
| 19 | If you wanted to go to Kirkwall you had to cross to the Rousay pier and then either hire a car or walk to and get across with Tom . |
| 20 | B. T. When you were going on duty , you had to parade at the station at half past , as a rule — a quarter of an hour before the beat . |
| 21 | So you had to cut round the doorstep , cut round it , |
| 22 | ‘ It was very time-consuming — you had to look at the jockey , horse and trainer 's charts . |
| 23 | You had to look inside the shoes to be able to judge the different thicknesses of sole and heel . |