Example sentences of "you [vb past] n't have " in BNC.
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| 1 | You did n't have to tell Claire , Annabel or me about Nanny 's cold hands ; we had suffered from them most of our lives , but what that had to do with pastry was what Father described as a ‘ female mystery ’ . |
| 2 | You did n't have to tell me that . |
| 3 | You did n't have to be a client or a famous face to be on the receiving end . |
| 4 | You did n't have to be highly professional and experienced like a personnel manager has to be today . |
| 5 | You did n't have to be an angry young man to look around the car industry over the past few weeks and despair of ever hearing any good news . |
| 6 | You did n't have to tread softly with such as he and he wondered scornfully why the fellow 's face was lard-coloured . |
| 7 | Surely you did n't have that much to say to one another ? |
| 8 | Even to get money from the bank , you did n't have to leave your car . |
| 9 | You did n't have the guts ! |
| 10 | ‘ I thought you said you did n't have any friends , apart from … ’ |
| 11 | You did n't have to go in for banging drums and shaking rattles to be a shaman ; you had simply to have suffered tremendously , been torn apart , come close to death . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought you did n't have any ? ’ |
| 13 | Explain our lives there — as if they needed explaining , and the whole point was that when you walked in the door of the Bar you knew you did n't have to explain anything to anyone who was there , not anyone . |
| 14 | You did n't have to get up at the crack of dawn to work out yardages . |
| 15 | ‘ You did n't have to . ’ |
| 16 | You did n't have to make them work , they had a desire to study , ’ says Mildenhall . |
| 17 | Yes , but you did n't have to do the work of the departments . |
| 18 | Not arrest if you did n't have to . |
| 19 | A. T. You did n't have to lock drunks up . |
| 20 | To be a Met Assistant you did n't have to understand the reason why the weather did this or that , you only had to record what was happening and make sure the officer in charge knew what was going on . |
| 21 | I can not remember ever feeling hungry ; you did n't have to go looking for food , you just picked it off the trees . |
| 22 | You could either pay ten rupees or , if you did n't have the money , you could give a chicken , or three households together could give a sheep . |
| 23 | You did n't have to help me . ’ |
| 24 | You did n't have to do anything . |
| 25 | Sitting behind Eva and Dad in the car , watching their hands constantly fluttering towards each other , you did n't have to be a genius to see they were a couple . |
| 26 | You did n't have to go through him to get to someone who counted : he counted in his own right . |
| 27 | ‘ And 12s to 50s lasted longer and stayed in tune better , ’ chips in Keith , ‘ so you did n't have to change them as often . |
| 28 | You did n't have the baffling and separation then ; everybody would get as close together as they could . |
| 29 | He still talks mistily about Cowdray , and Guards and the parties , and the hospitality , and the women you did n't have to date twenty-two times before laying them . ’ |
| 30 | They were narrowly beaten by a four-nation , eight-man team of elite males in Italy in a spectacle that proved you did n't have to be one of the team to enjoy the fun . |