Example sentences of "[conj] you had [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You either got tuck boxes from home or you had to supplement it with your own earnings , which , ten shillings a week . |
| 2 | the accident happened during a period of continental use that you had told us about . |
| 3 | the accident happened during a period of continental use that you had told us about . |
| 4 | the accident happened during a period of continental use that you had told us about . |
| 5 | the accident happened during a period of continental use that you had told us about . |
| 6 | And you had to put it in the letter box , you dare n't leave it in the in the . |
| 7 | You had been swilling food into your guts and making the small talk of camp survival , and you had lost him from your memory … |
| 8 | there was about twenty cards and you had to name everything that was on it , order everything , like you usually go , erm that 's it or something and erm you have to learn it in the MAs and MEs and things and all that and then she showed you and you had to take everything on that |
| 9 | And I went up and down the road and miles away then came back and I could n't stop because this bike was very old fashioned and you had to stop it by pedalling back |
| 10 | We used the police telephone boxes when we were locking somebody up and you had to handcuff them to a railing while you rang up for the van . |
| 11 | And you had telephoned yourself without success . |
| 12 | Erm and it was rather a a and heavy work , you had to have a team of horses to pull a load of suedes and you had to get them in Some you used to carry out on and just drag them I mean s spread them out on the field er for the store cattle and the sheep . |
| 13 | So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out . |
| 14 | If you had to explain anything to someone else , then there had to be something you were both sure of , some place to start , and Masklin was n't sure that there was any place like that around Shrub . |
| 15 | Unless you offer positive alternatives you do more harm than if you had done nothing at all . |
| 16 | And you had best be grateful to me , for if you had left it to the little men of law he could buy better and shiftier than you , and you would never have got your money at all . ’ |
| 17 | If you had told me about that when I was a child , I would n't have believed you . |
| 18 | If you had told me in advance , I would have prepared a few canapes for your arrival . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't know what you think about this , but what occurs to me is this , supposing you had to kill somebody with your bare hands , how would you do it ? suggestion . |
| 20 | But if you were locking up or cautioning , that was different — but you had to put it in your book that you had cautioned her . |
| 21 | But you had known her for so long that she must have seemed immortal . ’ |
| 22 | Now , cos I mean do n't forget originally we used to take milk out twice a day , morning and night , because you had to fetch it from the farm . |
| 23 | He found it hard to remember whether you had to position yourself on the left or the right side . |
| 24 | It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . |
| 25 | Christine paused most meaningfully … ‘ she said as you had given it to her , sir . |
| 26 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 27 | then use your length of cloth as though you had purchased it from a bolt of fabric in a shop . |