Example sentences of "you had [verb] a [adj] " 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 | Once you had served a few years , you might come to detest the job , but you committed yourself to the future . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | So , if you had written a I , vi , IV progression in C , rather than just playing C , Am and F you could play Csus4-C , Asus4-Am and Fadd♯4-F . |
| 5 | In the example invented , you would have been on much safer ground if you had written a precise account , as follows . |
| 6 | You had to pee a few times a day to survive . |
| 7 | If you wanted to take them off or even go to the lavatory , you had to undo a complicated buttoned flap at the front . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Erm just the same as if you had had a good nights sleep . |
| 12 | " … 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 ? " |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ No doubt if you had made a speedier recovery , I might not have enjoyed such a free hand ; but then , your illness was prolonged by your feverish attack of conscience with regard to your precious daughter ! |
| 15 | And I am if at five minutes to five , or five minutes to leaving off time whatever it was and you would n't say well we 'll get ready to go home you had to pick a half a link up make it into a staple and throw it in the box . |
| 16 | Finally , remember that you had to put a considerable amount of effort into learning the skills that you have today . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I would consider it my duty to remain at the salon until you had found a suitable replacement for me , ’ she said primly . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | … And at times in retrospect you wish you had taken a certain stat , because it turns out that the whole thing has boiled up , completely beyond what you know it to be , but it 's become political and the authority is being attacked and the chiefs ca n't defend it and say , ‘ OK . |
| 22 | He had always found that once you knew where you were wrong , then you had taken a great step towards being right . |
| 23 | To get there you had to pass an unsteady table of jewellery and climb a flight of worn-lipped , stone steps to the second floor . |
| 24 | Your arm was broken , and you had had a terrible bang on the head . |
| 25 | Well I thought you had to get a certain amount |
| 26 | She wished she 'd already applied her make-up ; she was still good-looking without it , she knew , but at thirty-eight you had to expect a few flaws . |
| 27 | The sergeant was chasing you round and if they came round and saw you coming out of a shop , you had to have a good explanation . |
| 28 | Structured thought which had as its main attributes three themes of course before you had that you had to have a clear objective which helped you to choose what those three themes were , and why why did we choose three as a based on |
| 29 | For plotting a course you had to have an accurate speedometer . |
| 30 | It did n't seem to me the way to behave towards someone with whom you had shared a good many midnight hours , swopping confidences and generally letting your hair down , not to mention the many other evenings when we had had such fun with Henry and Jimmy , and I felt rather aggrieved at being treated this way . |