Example sentences of "[conj] you had [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather like that game where you had to memorise so many objects on a tray . |
| 2 | I was brought up in a different era where you had to entertain yourself . |
| 3 | It began to feel like a night at the Marx Bros opera where you had to guess what Harpo was trying to say . |
| 4 | With chemistry , things like organic chemistry , where you had to know every reaction , you could n't work it out , you had to know everything that was going to happen — there was n't a lot of understanding involved , it was mainly slogging . |
| 5 | At teatime , there was honey , sour-milk scones and plum jam where you had to mind out for the stones . |
| 6 | doing in an arithmetic way or you had to use a sca , a log table . |
| 7 | You either got tuck boxes from home or you had to supplement it with your own earnings , which , ten shillings a week . |
| 8 | So you 're doing exactly what we were telling you to do a few weeks ago , that you had to er take money out of reserves or you had to cut down on the level of services if you were to avoid putting that thirty four pounds on the council tax bills this year . |
| 9 | ‘ A pity that you had to lose her and earn your own living . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 17 ) Party Sevens ( these were massive cans of bitter — it Whitbread Big Head Trophy Bitter , The Pint That Thinks It 's A Quawawwart ! — that you had to open with a hammer ) |
| 12 | Feradach whispered to Oisin that you had to give credit where it was due ; Tealtaoich really did this sort of thing extremely well . |
| 13 | Well I stayed on as an orderly because they said that I could erm I could marry because er I was n't erm classed as erm tt Er I would n't pass it on to me husband , so I could marry , provided I I prevented having children for er five years , that you had to see the Doctor until The medical Doctor at Nottingham , until he pronounced you clear , you see ? |
| 14 | But then when you do peel them away , whether you can have a potentiality , like the when talked about he talked about either side of his face timeless void that you had to see the limit of it so that you could have erm that that I was in this body and there 's something about this body that I 'm going to go back into the body and then that could differentiate perhaps . |
| 15 | The stages were so enormous — about 60 feet across — that you had to poke out a bit of noise just to make yourself heard . |
| 16 | In this one we had n't told you that you had to strip formwork , that you had to er , make the formwork , that you had to fix the steel , you had to know this from your own knowledge . |
| 17 | I can see now that you had to test me a little . |
| 18 | Two slotted benches occupied most of the space and they were high up so that you had to sit with neck bent or smash your head against the ceiling . |
| 19 | So , they could n't get it into their heads that you had to sit on the floor . |
| 20 | This meant that you had to type everything , including the definitions for forms and reports , making dBFast more primitive in this aspect even than dBASE III Plus ! |
| 21 | Freeman withdrew the clause , wrote another one which meant that you had to go back to stage one again . |
| 22 | It 's been difficult in = thing that you had to go home at night and keep watering like , your not doing anything else but watering , watering |
| 23 | Within the assembly council I personally valued your contributions the very courteous and thoughtful way in which you presented these and the courage with which you expressed at times the stand that you had to take for the interest of the Board . |
| 24 | Finally , remember that you had to put a considerable amount of effort into learning the skills that you have today . |
| 25 | And of course made it part of the job that you had to attend night school classes for bread baking and confectionery . |
| 26 | ‘ I grew up when that kind of modernism was running rampant — it still is — when to be a respectable composer meant that you had to acquire a defiantly difficult style and I just said to myself , ‘ surely there 's another way to do this ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm so sorry that you had to wait , Signorina Hastings . |
| 28 | In the 1950s , as in the inter-war years , it seemed that you had to choose between socialism and economic internationalism . |
| 29 | In this one we had n't told you that you had to strip formwork , that you had to er , make the formwork , that you had to fix the steel , you had to know this from your own knowledge . |
| 30 | Where was it that you had to move from during the War ? |