Example sentences of "you had [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had learnt his craft the hard way ; after you had shot an Ibizan beach orgy sequence in a studio in Soho on a cold January morning with a load of complaining bimbos and a gay black man coked out of his brains , any other gig was a breeze . |
| 2 | Your mother fed the clothes into the rollers and you had to turn the old mangle . |
| 3 | Every time the car went round a corner you had to turn the whole radio round to face a different way That was the only way you could get half-decent reception . |
| 4 | ‘ It would serve you right if you had broken the damn ankle , ’ Travis declared with suppressed violence as he knelt down . |
| 5 | If you had written a full answer to each question , how could you have rearranged the word order to draw attention to the most important word or words ? |
| 6 | In the example invented , you would have been on much safer ground if you had written a precise account , as follows . |
| 7 | For example , if one evening you had planned a three-egg omelette filled with cheese and accompanied by peas or baked beans , why not use only two eggs , half the quantity of cheese , but more peas or beans ; you could add a slice of wholemeal bread too . |
| 8 | If you had to give a phoney address , could n't you at least have picked something that did n't have a remote basis in reality ? |
| 9 | During the time that I was at MainMan , David had become more and more removed from us , but I figured that that was because he was so busy and that was the way it was when you had become a big star . |
| 10 | Erm just the same as if you had had a good nights sleep . |
| 11 | ( You had to watch the Great Killer 's eyes . |
| 12 | If you had seen the young girl who was apparently in the bed what would you have done ? |
| 13 | " … giving him the impression , as indeed it would to anyone who did not know the district , that you had secured a well-appointed house or flat in Chelsea , at a very reasonable figure ? " |
| 14 | To reach his new apartment you had to use the old tradesmen 's entrance : past the service elevator , down four flights of stairs , along a corridor with a linoleum floor . |
| 15 | It all made sense , the relationship between non-Aristotelian logic and the banality of the American way of life : you had to take a detached view of the culture ; you were n't in love with it and you did n't hate it . |
| 16 | Imagine if your local electrical store allowed you to take a TV home for a month to sample its quality before parting with your money , you would be sure you had made the right decision before it cost you the earth . |
| 17 | And keep it warm and then er if you had er Then you had the chickens to you had to set the clucking hens and and bring out as many chickens as you could . |
| 18 | Finally , remember that you had to put a considerable amount of effort into learning the skills that you have today . |
| 19 | So it was quite a simple job and of course , as yard inspector at Street , my job was to see that the s platforms were always When one train left you had to put the other train in to get the shunters to shunt another train into the empty platform you see , for the next the next shunt and that and if a train came in from Carstairs you see , you seen that the pilot and phoned the signalman , let the pilot into number five dock . |
| 20 | If you had knitted the ribbed welt , it might have knitted 300 rows in the same amount of time . |
| 21 | So you had to find the square root of by ar either arithmetic by |
| 22 | I was delighted to see you had chosen a young man and woman with Down 's Syndrome to model shirts in the Spring 1991 catalogue . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , you 're on the right road , but I would say you had chosen the wrong day . ’ |
| 24 | In the past , when you have approached that person , you felt you had chosen the wrong moment . |
| 25 | You had to throw the malted barley up against the screen . |
| 26 | You had to produce the right club , and if you made a mistake it was the end of you . |
| 27 | Er if , if you , if you had , you had to dig a little hole in , in the , in the , by the wall on the , on the pavement like that to hold about sixty four marbles say , and you 'd start off and say , give or give or take give or take as a lawyer , I used to have four marbles , and whoever was taken that was a lawyer of four marbles , I do n't know why . |
| 28 | But , even if you were , you had to buy the whole manifesto . |
| 29 | ‘ I would consider it my duty to remain at the salon until you had found a suitable replacement for me , ’ she said primly . |
| 30 | You had to make a tiny hole to push it through — I 've seen men reported for using them — making a hole in their uniform . |