Example sentences of "that you had " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not in the court of law swear that you had been under my observations the whole time we were making the ascent . ’ |
| 2 | We told him that you had been out all night and that you were catching up on some sleep . |
| 3 | If you decided on the first day of the PIW you could not pay the SSP or that you had to stop paying SSP during the PIW , you employee can not get SSP now . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There were all these agit prop politics that you had to toe the line about . |
| 6 | But their attitude that you had to be part of their camp used to get to me . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I thought when I saw the pair of you coming that you had just raced through everything , ’ Moran laughed . |
| 9 | ‘ Anyway , I thought that you had a partner . ’ |
| 10 | So , of course , what happened was that you had all these wonderful posters about you as you walked in the foyer and as the punters came out drunk , you sold them weekends in Ibiza . |
| 11 | But unless you spent a lot on flowers and balls for the children and on Mary 's birthday present , considering that you had our 15/ and some 5/ or more yes more of your own a month ago , on which no calls but fares need have been made , to which was added about 30/ ( or more ? ) lately , and from it all not 30/ was spent on the dress , you should have a sovereign left : add to this the wages of this month to come , and there should remain , after 35/ to the spectacle man , fully a sovereign , which , considering our needs for the future & also your promises , nay , certainties , at which I laughed , should go to the bank . |
| 12 | I am distraught to learn of the demise of your mother and shut my ears to the ugly rumour that you had her put to death so that you could take up ballet-dancing . |
| 13 | A good place to begin is with the goals that you had reached about two weeks before you went on holiday . |
| 14 | What was unique about the BBC governors in the eighties was that you had Rees-Mogg as vice-chairman and Stuart Young as chairman — two open , committed supporters of the present Government . |
| 15 | In the act of conducting you made such inward exertions that you had not enough energy left to watch over the outward appearance . |
| 16 | ‘ It was comforting that you had something you could upgrade to a 486 if you needed to . |
| 17 | My dearest Galadriel , The agency wrote me that you had moved . |
| 18 | ‘ I was never given the details , but Mum did remark that you had n't had an easy time . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ And let her know that you cared so little for me that you had to be reminded ? |
| 20 | Your brilliance was such that you had made the background virtually vanish ; she seemed to be floating on air . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Since you had not been here for a fortnight , ’ he said , ‘ I assumed that you had completed your enquiries . ’ |
| 22 | I understand from Simon that you had been in touch regarding your proposal . |
| 23 | I refer to my letter to you of 18 May last , in which I explained that the Agreement that you had signed for the above tape had not been signed on behalf of Oxford University Press , and that the duplicate copy which you had retained for your records needed to be returned to us for signature in Oxford before I could despatch your copy of the tape to you . |
| 24 | This grandmother was a lasting influence , ‘ because she always insisted that you had to have the best of everything . |
| 25 | The trouble with this sawing-halfway-through lark was that you had no control over where and when the thing was likely to break . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I — ’ ‘ I put it to you that you had always loved Elinor Farr . |
| 27 | ‘ Well ’ — he turned and looked towards the window — ‘ I noticed as I passed that you had a box of Havana cigars , the … the Excepcionales . |
| 28 | What is interesting is that you had a kind of real intellectual respect for intellectual content and expertise and professionalism in a way that previous programmers perhaps have n't . |
| 29 | It is better to report that you had insufficient time to collect certain data than to produce half baked results . |
| 30 | But the true test of success is when , at the end of your delivery , your audience reacts in the way that you had hoped . |