Example sentences of "[noun] you had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing was to find a school for you three — for six months you had had no teaching , except what I could give you , and then kind Miss Budden , the headmistress at Auckland House school , Simla , said she could take you if I could come too and help her nurse about twenty children down with measles in the san. , because Matron was coping with some children with suspected diphtheria in another block . |
| 2 | If the Co was up on the Tuesday you had to have it paid for the Saturday , at least . |
| 3 | Mr Bailes ' little place was situated about half way along Highburn village and to get into the farmyard you had to walk twenty yards or so between five-foot walls . |
| 4 | Both made from remnants of terylene bought by Madeleine at a sale in Le Havre and run up by her on the black and gold sewing-machine you had to pedal like a toy car . |
| 5 | Er , and if I said it about any television programme you had watched . |
| 6 | And for the for the young calves you had to scrap them cos they could n't eat the the the big big thick sl slices for the young calves . |
| 7 | To sit down in a cafe you had to buy a cup of tea . |
| 8 | It was the kind of ring you had to take off to wash , a kind of chased inlay of platinum and gold that Stephen had had specially made on Dadda 's advice . |
| 9 | He er , Hugh and I used to come up every day do what we could , you see , in those days if you had a stroke you had to lay there till you died . |
| 10 | This meant that to go for a crap you had to take a shovel and dig a hole which was hard work when the ground was solid . |
| 11 | You might use such money to buy or lease land , and so increase the holding you had inherited . |
| 12 | For I was still struggling in the web you had woven , like a helpless insect wanting to escape , yet hypnotized into acquiescence and adoration by the spider 's malefic eyes and enveloping threads , wound slowly one by one round my resistless mind : |
| 13 | To get to this bar you had to pass through a billiard room full of jeering straight men . |
| 14 | It used to be amazing at the end of the week to be paid , to have money in your hand for the work you had done . |
| 15 | er the audience contact when you were actually stood up in the front and you 're there on your own just getting a little bit of feedback from the audience itself er does help and then the playback which erm I think it helped a lot to see how you faired particularly on that fir first attempt what areas you had to concentrate on to rectify your problems . |
| 16 | And it you broke a window you had to pay for it . |
| 17 | So as a cabin boy you had to relieve |
| 18 | Perhaps even more important is the inclusion of a preview facility since before you could not see the effects you had selected until printing out . |
| 19 | ‘ Would you credit it — all these years I 've wondered how on earth you 've managed to avoid falling in love , given all the glorious hunks you had to choose from , just falling over themselves to be near you . |
| 20 | Her mouth opened and shut ; then looking at Maggie she said , ‘ You silly daft lump , I thought you were joking and it was Simon you had brought back . ’ |
| 21 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 22 | He was going to write fiction , and to write fiction you had to gather facts about life : tales , emotions , relationships . |
| 23 | What was the prelavent case you had to treat ? |
| 24 | ‘ Was it not an instinctive reaction to break and see if you could help them , just in case you had to stop to do something about them ? ’ |
| 25 | For instance you had to know the names , the cast list . |
| 26 | It got phased out so that the Ministry did n't pay anything at all but to get this grant you had to keep tremendous records copies of invoices and you had to get er and the bus grant and the , the permission from them . |
| 27 | houses in them days , if you worked on a p work on a place , you had to live on a place , you see , if you got the sack you had to get out of 'em . |
| 28 | To reach his new apartment you had to use the old tradesmen 's entrance : past the service elevator , down four flights of stairs , along a corridor with a linoleum floor . |
| 29 | The caterpillar you had found boiled was a part of your cabbage . |
| 30 | By then , I had n't got a wireless but she declared that it was an absolutely necessary thing for someone in my situation and brought me a red one , of the kind that worked on batteries thankfully , not the kind you had to carry for miles to be recharged ! |