Example sentences of "[noun sg] you had " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the viewpoint of this being and objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind , because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well-known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorn effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output , simply because they know that you 're taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations . |
| 2 | From the viewpoint of this being an objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorne effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output simply because they know that you are taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations . |
| 3 | As a child actress you had some nasty moments on the film Roar , did n't you ? |
| 4 | You might , for instance have to alter the way the murder you had in mind is committed or you might have to go so far as to alter the motive of the murderer or even find a completely different person to commit the central action . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Er , and if I said it about any television programme you had watched . |
| 8 | And making a load of hay especially , you had to work it , roll every pitchfork you had , roll it and set it properly so that you knew as you now then you must have numbers on them so you know how to unravel that lot . |
| 9 | Well while you had an apprenticeship you had about four years . |
| 10 | To sit down in a cafe you had to buy a cup of tea . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He smiled , ‘ It 's OK , you do n't have to pretend you remember me ; this instant recall is but an outward symbol of the soul-scarring effect you had on me . |
| 13 | That was the effect you had on me . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He has all the talent you had at his age . |
| 16 | I ai n't got the key I ai n't got the key you had it |
| 17 | For years afterwards , Shanti would remark , ‘ That 's the handbag you had when we went to court . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There were very few groups that stayed together as a unit all the time ; you just got together and played what were current country hits , current pop hits , with whatever instrumentation you had . |
| 20 | You might use such money to buy or lease land , and so increase the holding you had inherited . |
| 21 | 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 : |
| 22 | Something that came up yesterday was interview you had , and Graham to make the comment , and he , he was trying to make the point that he , what he said , what he recommended , would have to be taken up by the council , and actually by the council when it happened . |
| 23 | To get to this bar you had to pass through a billiard room full of jeering straight men . |
| 24 | You were heir to a throne and I was a minor officer from a village you had never heard of . " |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Viewer , the add-in that lets you see the contents of files still on disk , has been improved and now allows the import of ASCII text and now lets you save the current worksheet and retrieve a new file in a single command — so reducing the risk of +:F7 you loosing the work you had just been doing before using it ! |
| 27 | And it you broke a window you had to pay for it . |
| 28 | Too bad Henry Phipps happened to mention your father 's debts to that chinless wonder you had on the string . |
| 29 | No wonder you had trouble . |
| 30 | ‘ No wonder you had me fooled , ’ he murmured . |