Example sentences of "so you had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact at various times there would be BBC rulings issued down concerning the number of breaks you could have in a recording , so you had to choose your breaks with great discretion to make best use of them . |
| 2 | There was no toilet paper in the cell , so you had to ask for it . |
| 3 | You tended not to have room to use cameras on cranes , so you had to rely on pedestals just to get them in there . |
| 4 | No , so you had to sit and work it out . |
| 5 | If you were unfortunate enough to get a bad cook it took a while before the powers that be realised it , so you had to put up with inedible food for weeks . |
| 6 | Well we had to keep somebody on watch in case there was any damage , say the ship was up the river and a chain broke or they hit you , so you had to put your navigation lights up and to put navigation lights up we had hurricane lamps , we had a red and a white one , they should have been six foot apart , they never were they was about three foot . |
| 7 | Oh I see , so you had to replace them |
| 8 | There was no privacy , no curtain round the sink , so you had to do your top first , keep your nightdress on , wash your bottom part and hope people were n't looking . |
| 9 | You were on piece work you got paid by the rivet sort of thing , so you had to go ahead with it . |
| 10 | There was no , no uniform for the office , so you had to provide your own ? |
| 11 | But then , he was in advertising , so you had to make allowances . |
| 12 | ‘ Ah — your wife had to go out , so you had to stay home with the children ? ’ |
| 13 | And Lime Grove had big , heavy , lumbering cameras with turrets on the front , so you had to check positioning very carefully . |
| 14 | Erm , so you had to have did n't you ? |
| 15 | And er because that 's where we were all the time so you had to learn to swim from no age at all . |
| 16 | One minute it was left-to-right , the next right-to-left , so you had to keep the ball low . |
| 17 | Otherwise you would n't get any more Co er Cooperative messages , so you had to pay that . |
| 18 | It was half a mile to the chip shop , so you had to get a head start . |