Example sentences of "you had [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pop and I remember going up to the captain 's cabin after you had gone to bed and eating lovely bala chaung sandwiches . |
| 2 | You had to leave for work at 8.25 . |
| 3 | Two slotted benches occupied most of the space and they were high up so that you had to sit with neck bent or smash your head against the ceiling . |
| 4 | ‘ So I did , with the coffee you had laced with sleeping pills for me . |
| 5 | Would you have difficulties if your tank burst and you had to claim on insurance for the resulting damage to furniture and fittings ? |
| 6 | And even then er you had to ask for permission to stay out till ten . |
| 7 | So i it was n't a very easy thing then to get them and as I say you 'd be preparing a fare increase which , perhaps a ha'penny on certain fares and a penny on fares above a certain range and you had to allow for depreciation , or resistance in the public travelling but er as long as you could always bring in a little extra from a fare increase it was worthwhile going forward . |
| 8 | The furniture you got was just little bits and pieces you could get hold of , and you had to go into debt for it . |
| 9 | You had to go into politics if you wanted to change the world . |
| 10 | You had to go on Governor 's app [ put in an application to the Governor ] to ask to get your toenails cut . |
| 11 | I said , no , and she said oh I have lots of times , I only live at Manchester , you see , and of course , you had to go by boat you see , and I caught the boat train from Ipswich at eight o'clock in the morning and I got to Manchester at lunchtime about one and then went on to Liverpool and the train there took us almost down to the docks . |
| 12 | Oh goodness , yes for the damage and you had to go in front of the Harbourmaster . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , thank goodness you had to stop for breath . |
| 14 | The excitement is in the expectation that , having been around and seen all that you can , the end product will be at least a little more interesting than it might have been if you had stayed at home . |
| 15 | In the 1950s , as in the inter-war years , it seemed that you had to choose between socialism and economic internationalism . |
| 16 | We started off by using the T-bars which were very awkward because you had to stand in front of a small bar , you could n't sit down or lean forward . |
| 17 | What would you expect to happen to the magnitude of the effect once you had controlled for number of years of full-time education ? |
| 18 | His legs were bare and he was wearing Indian leather sandals , the kind you had to soak in water before you first put them on . |
| 19 | Trouble yeah , trouble I got put off for a fortnight , on the dole , then he , I was on the dole for a week and er he cos at that time you had to appear in front of the erm , what they call the Court of Referees at the Labour Exchange , that was their Committee . |
| 20 | You had to appear in front of them , well this , I 'd been off for a week and the old Harbourmaster old he sent for me and he said erm , you can start work tomorrow as I . |
| 21 | ‘ I hated you so much that I wrote back to him , telling him you had died of typhus fever at Lowood . |
| 22 | Until recently , diesel cars were slow and very noisy , the theory being that this was the price you had to pay for economy . |
| 23 | It had upset him at the time , but you had to get over stuff like that or you 'd go to the wall . |
| 24 | And er after that , my father went with the rounds with the collieries , where you had to belong to union to go to them , and Colliery did n't accept what was called the old union . |
| 25 | Though we were pleased to see you , we would have been doubly pleased if you had entered on time , that is two weeks in advance . |