Example sentences of "you had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that 's a bit more mod really , thing is this is more the sort you had is n't it ? |
| 2 | Once you had been through the three years what did you find had developed most for you as an actor ? |
| 3 | I could not in the court of law swear that you had been under my observations the whole time we were making the ascent . ’ |
| 4 | feeling complete , replete , like a cat sleeping in the sun has all four paws buried under its furred belly , sun too hot to move , tail wrapped over its sleeping nose , I went back to our bed to curl up next to where you had been . |
| 5 | We told him that you had been out all night and that you were catching up on some sleep . |
| 6 | He was about five-feet tall , but he had an enormous ability to make you feel that you had been given a real challenge and it seemed all-important to discharge it to his satisfaction and he was equally praising of your achievement . |
| 7 | You did not tell me what you had been doing , or where you had been , and you were not interested in whatever I might have been doing . |
| 8 | You did not tell me what you had been doing , or where you had been , and you were not interested in whatever I might have been doing . |
| 9 | Although you always came to me brimming with news of where you had been and what you had done , I do not think you told me everything . |
| 10 | You had been playing the piano in public in Salzburg since 1918 , when you were barely ten years old , and you went on to play Mozart piano concertos and Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies in public concerts . |
| 11 | IF YOU had been in Whitehall one day in April 13 years ago you would have witnessed a remarkable sight . |
| 12 | ‘ After you had been presented to our gracious Queen , last summer , you followed custom by having your photograph taken in all your finery . ’ |
| 13 | I understand from Simon that you had been in touch regarding your proposal . |
| 14 | You were also , probably , drunk , but how you got drunk , or where you had been between that first moment of reacquaintance with yourself and now , was a mystery . |
| 15 | If you are sailing in this curved air flow you can not sail as close to the wind as you could if you had been in clear wind . |
| 16 | In many cases , mummy used to give you a sweet to ‘ make it better ’ or because you had been ‘ good ’ . |
| 17 | A single trivial occurrence does not entitle you to claim that you had been constructively dismissed . |
| 18 | You can get wetter than if you had been in a winter shower . |
| 19 | B. If you had been a young person in 1860 , like Jimmy Horsley 's great-grandfather , you might easily have been out of work . |
| 20 | If you had been an out-of-work farm hand near Inverness , or near Dumfries , why might you have been one of many who moved to Glasgow in the last century ? |
| 21 | If you had been a small shopkeeper with some money why might you have done the same ? |
| 22 | If you had been Chief Onlaf , in which order of importance would you have placed the seven requirements for a suitable village site ? |
| 23 | If he could n't find you , he wanted to know where you had been . |
| 24 | Once you had been visited by the sergeant , you 'd go for a scrounge , somewhere you could get a smoke — a bakery where there was a bit of heat in the winter-time . |
| 25 | Wherever you were stationed postings tended to come out of the blue , and you would quite often arrive back from leave to find that in your absence you had been posted elsewhere . |
| 26 | This counts as if you had been earning exactly the amount of the LEL . |
| 27 | You will also receive half your husband 's graduated pension and all of his additional pension if he contributed to SERPS , so long as this would not take your pension above the maximum you could have had if you had been earning at the upper earnings limit throughout . |
| 28 | It was then believed that if a cat crossed your path and did you no harm , you had been incredibly lucky . |
| 29 | ‘ … and the moral of that [ said the Duchess ] is — ‘ Be what you would seem to be ’ — or , if you 'd like it put more simply — ‘ Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise . |
| 30 | ‘ You had been told . |