Example sentences of "you had [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er whereas if you had said positively that I 'm sure you can think of a number of |
| 2 | I shouted breakfast is ready and then I started my breakfast , cos you had gone upstairs were n't you ? |
| 3 | ‘ We heard you had gone ashore on one of the boats , Jim , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Your note said you had gone home to Portugal . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought you had run away , Mr Dee , ’ cried Multhrop in relief . |
| 6 | He informed me that you had run away . |
| 7 | That spool has a limited but steady sale to academics — a tribute to all the knowledge you had packed away . |
| 8 | Then when you had grown enough and mother had carried you there nearly a year , God opened a door for you and brought you out into this world . |
| 9 | On the other hand , if you have lost your partner and like two branches of a tree , you had grown together in kindness and only lived for each other through thick and thin , then talk inwardly to your partner . |
| 10 | A few years ago , if you had asked almost any biologist what was special about living things as opposed to nonliving things , he would have told you about a special substance called protoplasm . |
| 11 | This I much regret as it contained some of the most valuable things you had collected viz. the bird you call the Whiteheaded Swallow , all the Cinclosomas etc . |
| 12 | To my way of thinking you had seen too much of my secretary , I decided on that instant that to take you out of his vicinity was an excellent idea . ’ |
| 13 | And especially so , it appeared , if you had done well from nothing , like Dad . |
| 14 | If you had done so , the inappropriateness of someone of your age and standing addressing him as ‘ William ’ should have been self-evident to you . ’ |
| 15 | When I tell you about your Osphronemus gourami you may wish you had done so . |
| 16 | If you had retired yesterday and you had n't made proper arrangements what impact would this have on your way of life ? |
| 17 | I have to tell you the terrible things I thought about you when I stumbled into that nursery , part of the rooms you had locked away from me . |
| 18 | Packages which checked your spelling , for example , in something you 've put on and very politely suggested that you may or may not have got a word quite correctly spelt that you had intended perhaps spelt one way , it came out as another way , and there must be an awful lot of work going on in this area . |
| 19 | A good place to begin is with the goals that you had reached about two weeks before you went on holiday . |
| 20 | ‘ Then you had thought irrationally . |
| 21 | Richard and I thought you had settled so nicely ’ — as if I was some sort of jelly — and then , ‘ Well , if you really want to , I suppose it would be nice for you to earn a little pin money . ’ |
| 22 | So as soon as I could get away I went to your hotel , only to be told that you had left shortly after your colleagues . ’ |
| 23 | If you had left well alone and let me carry on my business I would n't be here . |
| 24 | If you should find the cottage more a liability than you had envisaged then we can perhaps talk business in the future . |
| 25 | ‘ You said your name was Millet … you said that you had come here to find out more about our son . ’ |
| 26 | You can not conceive of the feelings that consumed me when I understood — or rather when I thought I understood — why you had come tonight , when you said you wanted to share your happiness with me , wanted to give me something . |
| 27 | Females can grow to six inches or more , so I do not rule out the fishes being female , but if you had had both sexes , then by the time one was six inches the size differential should have shown up . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh — there have been rumours going around that the two of you had got together again . ’ |
| 29 | If you had looked carefully , or if you knew enough , you would appreciate that these are , in fact , specially designed pilot 's boots which , with the aid of a couple of zips , convert into what was doubtless , in the forties , a pretty neat-looking pair of shoes . |
| 30 | Looking to her for comfort was like looking through a drawer for something which you knew was not there because you had looked so often before : you knew what was there — in painful and tedious detail — but there was nothing that you wanted . |