Example sentences of "you had to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scheme had an interior logic to it but in order to see it you had to be , let me see , stark raving mad , I suppose . |
| 2 | Would you hide if you had to ? ’ |
| 3 | The wartime government had promised the troops they would return to ‘ homes fit for heroes to live in ’ , but the sick joke was that you had to be a hero to survive in them . |
| 4 | But their attitude that you had to be part of their camp used to get to me . |
| 5 | As he recalls : ‘ You had to be able to tangle with fairly tough and earthy , but likeable and well-meaning , people . ’ |
| 6 | Jane was not popular : in order to be popular , you had to be good at games , and Jane was useless at all of them — and they played everything — netball , rounders , tennis , lacrosse , hockey — even cricket — every afternoon , rain or shine , exams or no exams . |
| 7 | Not you , you had to be the good guy . |
| 8 | You had to be part of my mirage . |
| 9 | You had to be ‘ circumspect in identifying where such people that are aspiring to democracy … are … important to us . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You could catch trout and smoke them if you had to , ’ I said . |
| 11 | ‘ To be a member of the Labour party you had to be a member of the staff association but I did n't know at the time , ’ says Davies . |
| 12 | I ALWAYS thought lesbianism was one of those things you had to be born with , like the ability to do the splits . |
| 13 | ‘ And let her know that you cared so little for me that you had to be reminded ? |
| 14 | You had to be able to fix your position just like a ship at sea , with sextant and star charts . |
| 15 | You had to be careful with officials . |
| 16 | And you had to be ready . |
| 17 | Nutty cried out , stung by adults ' crass thinking , wanting one thing , saying another , saying you had to when you did n't want to , and you could n't when you did want , saying you were no good when you were , and good when it was something that did n't matter , like a pootling poem or something . |
| 18 | You had to be nice to see the doctor . |
| 19 | Previously you had to be part of a quarrelsome , uneconomic unit of orthodoxy known as a church . |
| 20 | By the time that you were ready to go up into Standard Three , you had to be proficient to the twelve times table but it did not stop there for later on you had measurement , area , weight and many others . |
| 21 | I was on Mill Street for a bit and some of the padlocks there on the fish shops were filthy — you had to be very careful to wash your hands before you had your refreshments . |
| 22 | And you had to walk home , go to bed , and set your alarm , and you had to be up at the court at 10 a.m . |
| 23 | If you were caught , you 'd be charged for being improperly dressed — you had to be in uniform . |
| 24 | You had to be sure that she had convictions as a prostitute — first loitering and then prostitution and then finer points came up over suspected persons . |
| 25 | You had to be very careful in those days . |
| 26 | So you had to be pretty sure of your ground . |
| 27 | You had to be careful around that part of the world . |
| 28 | Since the turntable had a clockwork winding mechanism and the air-pump demanded continuous cranking while the disc played , you had to be fit to play a record ! |
| 29 | Being the second born in a poor family with thirteen brothers and sisters , you had to be tough to survive . |
| 30 | He had no really bad faults but you had to be careful that nothing startled him , such as a bird suddenly rising , and on one occasion he did bolt . |