Example sentences of "you had [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You with a mind full only of natural & unembarrassing thoughts , & of me , probably awoke early and remembered & rejoiced ; perhaps you had even prepared for it , & went happy walks , singing , garlanded . |
| 2 | I was kneeling down and you had just fallen on the floor . |
| 3 | I thought when I saw the pair of you coming that you had just raced through everything , ’ Moran laughed . |
| 4 | ‘ You had best impress upon the household the need for discretion . |
| 5 | Having begun in this historical vein , you had better stay with it . |
| 6 | I 'm afraid your uncle is very ill and will probably die soon , so I think you had better stay in England , until you receive further news of him . ’ |
| 7 | Maltote , you had better go with him . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You 'll never get that ’ was the response that I got , ‘ You had better start with us ’ . |
| 9 | She paused , looking at him reflectively , and then asked : ‘ Do n't you think you had better speak to your father about all this ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Then perhaps you had better attend to the mending of his soul . |
| 11 | I 'm losing power on the straights , and the three of you had better work at it because I 've only got one more chance ! ’ |
| 12 | If you believe in the Devil you had better believe in God , or else what a fix you 're in ! |
| 13 | ‘ You had better come to my room , then . ’ |
| 14 | Bright clear days when the Alps can be seen are rare , ( and the more pleasurable for being so ) , and if you want such days you had better come in spring or autumn when the heat haze is reduced . |
| 15 | And , as if to emphasise the difficulties that any prevention programme has to face , you had only to walk through any exit to find little groups enjoying a quiet cigarette . |
| 16 | You had only to look at holiday romances , she told herself , or shipboard affairs , to know that unfamiliar surroundings and propinquity acted as a hothouse , a forcing ground for unrealistic situations . |
| 17 | ‘ And , ’ he pursued pleasantly , ‘ I certainly had n't guessed that you had actually gone to the trouble of speculating on my reactions — to illness or to anything else , ’ he added quietly . |
| 18 | So was , was it also you that had got some , some , some dates in the references that had n't happened yet like the erm pe there was somebody it might have been you had actually referred to things that , you know , sort of twenty first of the fourth ninety four and things like that and it was sort of |
| 19 | That you had actually shifted from this to that , and you went off and did whatever it was . |
| 20 | I , when I took them back and looked at them , there were lots and lots of , of re er , errors if you like that if you had really looked at them you could of picked out yourself . |
| 21 | You were heir to a throne and I was a minor officer from a village you had never heard of . " |
| 22 | What do you now own that you had never dreamt of owning ? |
| 23 | What do you now own that you had never dreamed of owning ? |
| 24 | Or have you ever got a group of pupils talking , and having heard how inarticulate they are , how little they understand , wished that you had never embarked in this direction ? |
| 25 | All of a sudden things that you had never discussed with your parents come into the forefront of things . |
| 26 | But at the hack of your head you had always thought for rescue , reaching hands . |