Example sentences of "you had [to-vb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DeFries had an idea that to be a star you had to act like a star so everything was first class . |
| 2 | It was next to a postcard-seller , and to get to it you had to go past a row of very strange postcards stuck on the railings : views of Cairo , oleographs of Levantine saints , scenes of the Massacre of the Marmelukes and from the Great War of Independence , portraits of the Madonna and of St Catherine , and , of course , hundreds of indecent photographs , very precise in some respects , strangely vague in others . |
| 3 | You had to go to a modelling school where you learnt how to get in and out of cars with your legs just so , so that nobody could see your knickers . |
| 4 | houses in them days , if you worked on a p work on a place , you had to live on a place , you see , if you got the sack you had to get out of 'em . |
| 5 | I told you had to lie on a board |
| 6 | You had to lie on a board , his doctor said , oh it 's lumbago which , all the signs are the same , where that pain goes all down your leg effecting the or mia , sciatica and have to lie on a board , and we were in the prefab then and you actually er not , like some people put the board are you interested ? |
| 7 | All you had to do as an employee in all honesty , was get up in the morning , and you had , the decision you had to make is , how do I get to work for half past eight ? |
| 8 | 17 ) Party Sevens ( these were massive cans of bitter — it Whitbread Big Head Trophy Bitter , The Pint That Thinks It 's A Quawawwart ! — that you had to open with a hammer ) |
| 9 | I imagine you had to fight like a tiger to secure me even that half of his estate . ’ |
| 10 | Stockings were never long enough and the tension between suspender and stocking-top would result in spring-loaded legs ; if you had to run for a bus , the legs would keep going for three stops . |
| 11 | Lady James , you had to come over a water bridge at er , her stud . |
| 12 | To get to this bar you had to pass through a billiard room full of jeering straight men . |
| 13 | You had to think of a method and the method was particularly difficult , I think , on the tank farm one where this is the sort of method that I am thinking here of how , how on earth am I going to build it on , on the hotel ? |
| 14 | A. T. If you wanted to have a smoke — we used to have smokes : we were n't angels by any means — you had to get into a shop doorway , put your cigarette in your mouth , strike a match , shield it with your hand , and then blow the match out and then your hand would go up your sleeve . |
| 15 | Both made from remnants of terylene bought by Madeleine at a sale in Le Havre and run up by her on the black and gold sewing-machine you had to pedal like a toy car . |
| 16 | You had to look for a pairing between murderer and victim . |