Example sentences of "you had [prep] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and you had to be nice to everybody do n't you ? |
| 2 | Oh no no , it was really a happy-go-lucky time you , you had to be alive in those days to appreciate it , it , people sort of got together and it , it 's a different attitude to life today er much more friendly people there and they , we all worked together we all pulled together to defeat Hitler this , this was the thing in those days . |
| 3 | By the time that you were ready to go up into Standard Three , you had to be proficient to the twelve times table but it did not stop there for later on you had measurement , area , weight and many others . |
| 4 | But it was n't anything much , because you had to be discreet in those days , specially if you had a child . |
| 5 | Jane was not popular : in order to be popular , you had to be good at games , and Jane was useless at all of them — and they played everything — netball , rounders , tennis , lacrosse , hockey — even cricket — every afternoon , rain or shine , exams or no exams . |
| 6 | So you had to be careful of him . |
| 7 | You had to be careful with officials . |
| 8 | You had to be careful with it , so the outfields were rougher and dryer . |
| 9 | You had to be careful around that part of the world . |
| 10 | And then you had to be quick at it you know . |
| 11 | The sustain and the feedback was amazing , but boy , you had to be quick off the mark to damp the strings , or the whole thing would feed back unbelievably . |
| 12 | This time I 've got no crazy , pointless altruism restraining me , and you must long since have discarded whatever distorted idealism made you believe you had to be faithful to Jones in fact and thought , since you claim to have had at least one other relationship between your spells with him . |
| 13 | It was a very very rare occasion , er you had to be ill to be off school . |