Example sentences of "you [adv] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shouted to Steve ‘ Hey Steve , would n't you rather have failed on this route than have succeeded on the Japanese Route ? ’ |
| 2 | You presumably had to work on the orchestra section by section . |
| 3 | Well I think you two ladies are very fortunate , and you obviously have come from homes that have encouraged you very much , and have come from schools that have encouraged you very much . |
| 4 | Oh yes , you only had to listen to this afternoon like , with the crowds and that , obviously it means a lot to them and there 's a lot of you know , stick I suppose goes around between the two clubs , so I just want to go out there , hopefully have a good game and keep a clean sheet . |
| 5 | Goldberg I had known it would attack , he wrote , and sooner rather than later , the soil was ripe for the sprouting of concern , refugees , famine , the bomb , you only had to look at him , sentiment inevitable , despite my efforts , despite my scorn . |
| 6 | You only had to look at her greasy black hair , her insolent stare and her creased and spotted uniform . |
| 7 | ‘ You only had to look at the faces sitting around the table at base camp to know that they were physically and mentally finished . ’ |
| 8 | Marcus did n't care what Wilson said , you only had to look at the guy . |
| 9 | YOU only had to walk into the members ' lobby of the Commons yesterday to know what you 'd suspected for days . |
| 10 | You only have to go to bed , when you go up there |
| 11 | No , cos you only have to go round five times do n't you ? |
| 12 | You only have to sit in there and you hear the rumours and the gossip that 's going around and the thing is , in the staffroom it 's always the bad kids that are talked about , never the good ones , which I suppose makes sense in a way , but as a new teacher , you come in , you hear these rumours like , I used to hear rumours about Kevin ( an Afro-Caribbean pupil ) and I thought , ‘ Oh , God , I 'll have to watch out for Kevin , everybody thinks he 's a trouble-maker and that means he 's bound to be in my class ’ , but I mean it 's not as simple as that , it really is n't … |
| 13 | You only have to listen to what women here have told you and it 's not psychological ! |
| 14 | ‘ You only have to listen to people talking about you at the bar to realise that . |
| 15 | You only have to drive through the West Midlands to see that if we are in the Super-League of top industrial nations , somebody must be moving the goalposts . |
| 16 | You only have to think about it . ’ |
| 17 | You only have to think of your salary , or the value of your house , to get the point . |
| 18 | You only have to think of the otherwise incomprehensible behaviour of someone who hails a cab with a flailing gesture of the outstretched arm and who , having failed , then feels it necessary to provide an account of what happened by using the same hand to smooth down the hair . |
| 19 | You only have to walk into any art gallery these days to see that the real action is in the shop . |
| 20 | No as soon as it gets anywhere past the top , you only have to have about a four inch dick . |
| 21 | Trousers of all kinds are back in a big way , says Hilary Alexander ; now , you only have to worry about width |
| 22 | He added : ‘ You only have to look at the figures for fire deaths in hotels to see this is not a problem . |
| 23 | You only have to look at the balance sheet its treasurer John Lister will present to its annual meeting in December , a million pounds sitting on reserve . |
| 24 | - Elizabeth Rex , chairman of the Harwich Conservative Association ‘ You only have to look at the way we have annoyed the Establishment and the professions to gauge the success of our populist policies . ’ |
| 25 | You only have to look at what they use . |
| 26 | The ‘ take-away ’ industry has grown suddenly and dramatically , as has the consumption of vast quantities of junk foods — you only have to look at all those supermarket trolleys piled high with packets of crisps and cans of fizzy drink . |
| 27 | If you want an illustration of that you only have to look at the words of President Reagan . |
| 28 | You only have to look at a prole in this book and it rolls over to have its tummy tickled . |
| 29 | ‘ You only have to look at a picture of him when he resigned and compare it with one from six months beforehand . |
| 30 | In Russia , whatever big Boris Yeltsin may be — and you only have to look at him to know more about that than you want to — he is no Gorbachev . |