Example sentences of "you had " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was delighted to see you had chosen a young man and woman with Down 's Syndrome to model shirts in the Spring 1991 catalogue . |
| 2 | It 's not much use arriving somewhere at ten in the morning clutching the collected works under your arm and wishing you had a wig and been born thirty years earlier in order to play Lear — or for that matter the Duke of Gloucester . |
| 3 | I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them . |
| 4 | Once you had been through the three years what did you find had developed most for you as an actor ? |
| 5 | You had to understand and project what made your character tick . |
| 6 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 7 | I could not in the court of law swear that you had been under my observations the whole time we were making the ascent . ’ |
| 8 | Too bad Henry Phipps happened to mention your father 's debts to that chinless wonder you had on the string . |
| 9 | You had n't told your wife about it , so I thought it was probably bad news , and that it might have upset you enough to — well , to do something . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You had , he says , to be careful not to fumigate on a foggy night when the air was too heavy to let the fumes drift away . |
| 12 | We suspect you had seen the Terrex Autospade , which is made by Wolf Tools . |
| 13 | This could be serious if you had to make a side-slip to get down into field on an early flight . |
| 14 | But then I realised you had joined the queue of dolour — I take it from your sparkling eyes that Lucy 's dropped her drawers and flung herself into sapphic bliss ? ’ |
| 15 | feeling complete , replete , like a cat sleeping in the sun has all four paws buried under its furred belly , sun too hot to move , tail wrapped over its sleeping nose , I went back to our bed to curl up next to where you had been . |
| 16 | If you refuse , you will be treated as though you had failed the test , and you will face a lifetime ban . |
| 17 | Would you hide if you had to ? ’ |
| 18 | But you had to know . ’ |
| 19 | You had to trust folk . |
| 20 | You had to tell yourself , again and again , that there were links between all the little homes , filaments that tensed and hummed with power when the time came . |
| 21 | ‘ You said you had an early start tomorrow . |
| 22 | ‘ And you had to fight ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I thought you had the afternoon free . ’ |
| 24 | How could she compare the task of dusting and polishing the magnificent English furniture to the drudgery of cleaning our house , where there were only tom rags , a broom and a pail of water , and you had to go down on your knees to scrub the floor and do the endless piles of washing by hand ? |
| 25 | I was surprised to seen that in April 's Hands On that you had awarded Zwi Rotem of Israel the winner 's prize for his tip on extracting nails with screwdrivers and a washer . |
| 26 | ‘ Suppose you had lived on the moon , ’ Stavrogin interrupted … |
| 27 | ‘ If you had not lost him at cards , would he have got into prison ? |
| 28 | Pound sent me a card , which I still have , naming place and date , and saying , rather peremptorily , ‘ I think you had better take this in . ’ |
| 29 | You had not the thin milk of New York and New England from the pap ; and you can therefore keep the environment outside you , and decently objective . |
| 30 | You had to laugh . |