Example sentences of "[noun] you had [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Co was up on the Tuesday you had to have it paid for the Saturday , at least . |
| 2 | And for the for the young calves you had to scrap them cos they could n't eat the the the big big thick sl slices for the young calves . |
| 3 | Now if you 'd got grudge against the bloke who was taking it off in the shop , in the farmyard , after when you got back home , of course you had to come I mean they did n't stick it in the field , like they do now . |
| 4 | Of course you had to get them . |
| 5 | The place you had to fight your way out of , shouting and wailing as you first hit the light ; the place that imprisoned you , yet kept you warm , fed you . |
| 6 | When your family members went mad these days you had to keep them at home , and whatever the sound policies , on the part of the government , which lay behind this decision , it was undoubtedly inconvenient for those upon whom would fall the burden of caring for the deranged . |
| 7 | I 'm sorry for the five minute delay most of you , I had to seek out about a administrative matter , an administrative matter , nothing to do with the evidence or the place for Mr you had told us earlier in the week about several situations , as the management company . |
| 8 | Tom did n't know that at that station you had to book your pitch in advance , add your name or the name of your band to the list under the No Smoking sign . |
| 9 | He joked : ‘ In England , if you were sent to a rugby league match at Batley on a night you had to park your car on the touch line and leave the headlights on and hope the players would run into the beam of light so you could get a picture . |
| 10 | It used to be that if you wished something to look white on television you had to paint it yellow . |
| 11 | ‘ What was this good news you had to tell me ? ’ |
| 12 | But is , is , I mean w w what we 've said so far is that the problem with this is that there is n't enough land and therefore it encroaches on the middle peasant and , and that 's the problem , that 's the reason you had to change your policy . |
| 13 | What would they say about a fellow who did n't make a pass at them , for to make a pass you had to feel something ? |
| 14 | In the end you had to trust someone and she trusted this man . |
| 15 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 16 | I saw the way you had to fight him off in that first dance — the bastard 's hands were everywhere ! ’ |
| 17 | T. B. You had to see what they were passing through and you had to have a chit and you had to time this chit and sign it and then you went to the hut and put it on the spike . |
| 18 | If you could go to her , genuinely sorry for the hurt you had caused her and knowing that you had come to terms with your conflict about the difference in your ages , then maybe she might be willing to consider starting again . |
| 19 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 20 | You may think you have to cut back on the necessities of life for a few days or cancel a treat you had promised yourself and the family . |
| 21 | The actual cost of the loan , over 15 years , would be nearly £50,000 by the time you had paid it in full . |
| 22 | By the time you had arrested him or put his trousers on . |
| 23 | By the time you had let them out you would have domesticated deer who are no longer likely to be able to fend for and defend themselves as they previously did . |
| 24 | Yeah , because I mean , like when I had the home erm , that again obviously you ca n't , people said that , I mean , it 's changed a lot but when I had the home you did n't just pull an , out anybody from the street and call them care assistants you had to offer them a day 's training every week |
| 25 | So you had to know that in order to , to pour concrete you had to have something to pour it into and you had to put the erm you had to have er reinforcements as well . |