Example sentences of "you had [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I do n't see , ’ continued Betty , ‘ why you had to say Elizabeth was going up and down like a whore 's drawers when she was only moving things off the table . ’ |
| 2 | And therefore in the interim period things had to be you know , you had to treat people fairly in order not to let them be of the belief er that going to er central conference was just an exercise . |
| 3 | He was going to write fiction , and to write fiction you had to gather facts about life : tales , emotions , relationships . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought to drive things you had to turn wheels and change gears and things ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 5 | And of course made it part of the job that you had to attend night school classes for bread baking and confectionery . |
| 6 | Feradach whispered to Oisin that you had to give credit where it was due ; Tealtaoich really did this sort of thing extremely well . |
| 7 | You had to give Anthony top marks for persistence , she thought to herself . |
| 8 | You had to use log tables . |
| 9 | ‘ True , you had to bounce things as you went along . |
| 10 | And you had to take Rose Hilaire into the equation . |
| 11 | Mum you know when you had to take Michael downstairs when he was screaming , Stacey was , he would 've gone off just Stacey was chat was talking . |
| 12 | But I remember after having resigned , sitting in the front in the band 's Commer van — there 'd be the driver , the engine cover and then the passenger seat , and you had to take turns sitting on the engine cover . |
| 13 | For duck you needed really to go north , to the big lakes around Alexandria and , of course , for big game you had to go south . |
| 14 | I think it 's covered for like , like you say , like for some reason , say you had a fire , and you had to stop work . |
| 15 | Taking your driving test in 1952 cost 10s. — and you had to demonstrate hand signals . |
| 16 | No , you did n't have to knock it off you had to choose thingies on a card . |
| 17 | There have been times when in order to maintain that kind of standard , you had to do things that have n't been particularly popular . |
| 18 | In this one we had n't told you that you had to strip formwork , that you had to er , make the formwork , that you had to fix the steel , you had to know this from your own knowledge . |
| 19 | Well , you had to send miles for them , did n't you er er blacksmith . |
| 20 | You had to frighten kids to make them behave , but there was no need to scare them too much . |
| 21 | mhm And , and you had to provide information about them , apart from everything else . |
| 22 | During the war you had to grow food on it , you said . |
| 23 | During the war you had to grow food on it , you said to me . |
| 24 | You had to grow food |
| 25 | you had to grow food on those areas , |
| 26 | You had to play Cajun music — the French Cajun two-steps — and in parts of Texas there was a lot of Mexican music , and of course there was the Louisiana and New Orleans stuff as well as jazz and country . |
| 27 | It was something that you had to swallow whole , like a stone of uncomfortable size , and the act of swallowing was called Faith . |
| 28 | ‘ But if he was a registrar he must surely have understood that you had to work shifts . ’ |
| 29 | You had to face facts . |
| 30 | Thought you had to bring shoes into conversation |