Example sentences of "[verb] you had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A debt you did n't know you had was best not argued with . |
| 2 | We interviewed Pascoe again today and he mentioned you had been to see him . |
| 3 | Imagine you had been living on bread and water for three years and then someone put a large bowl of cherries on the table in front of you . |
| 4 | ‘ It was n't right because of what people might say — seeing you there night after night eating alone , they might have said you had been abandoned . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I imagined you had been ordered to bed for three full days . ’ |
| 6 | There is still no cure for Aids and once you have got it , there is no point in wishing you had been careful . |
| 7 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 8 | Oh I thought you had been . |
| 9 | The S.M.O. said you had been a very good night special in Hope . |
| 10 | He said you had been harder hit than anyone . ’ |
| 11 | When you said you had been ‘ meaning to ask me for some time ’ , did you mean over the five and a half lonely years to date of my grass widowhood or merely since I 've had no car and no earnings ? |
| 12 | Today , too ; how I wished you had been with me at the concert . |