Example sentences of "you had [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were desperate enough , it was the only way to travel , but on a frosty night in the middle of December , you had to be desperate . |
| 2 | The Secretary of State for Scotland decided who should go to the party , but it appears that you had to be rich , a local landowner or preferably both to receive an invitation . |
| 3 | You had to be nice to see the doctor . |
| 4 | and you had to be nice to everybody do n't you ? |
| 5 | So you had to be sharp . |
| 6 | Oh no no , it was really a happy-go-lucky time you , you had to be alive in those days to appreciate it , it , people sort of got together and it , it 's a different attitude to life today er much more friendly people there and they , we all worked together we all pulled together to defeat Hitler this , this was the thing in those days . |
| 7 | I remember going down to the bridge in Walsall and a sailor climbed the old clock and tied his collar around it and a soldier got up and put his hat on and an airman got up and put his tie with a red , white and blue rosette on it , around the arms of the old clock and people were loving and kissing everywhere , and oh it was really you had to be alive to appreciate it . |
| 8 | By the time that you were ready to go up into Standard Three , you had to be proficient to the twelve times table but it did not stop there for later on you had measurement , area , weight and many others . |
| 9 | But it was n't anything much , because you had to be discreet in those days , specially if you had a child . |
| 10 | Jane was not popular : in order to be popular , you had to be good at games , and Jane was useless at all of them — and they played everything — netball , rounders , tennis , lacrosse , hockey — even cricket — every afternoon , rain or shine , exams or no exams . |
| 11 | As Barry Norman put it , ‘ There were three essential requirements to becoming a member of the Hollywood Brat Pack — you had to be successful , youthful and incredibly bratty . ’ |
| 12 | You had to be sure that she had convictions as a prostitute — first loitering and then prostitution and then finer points came up over suspected persons . |
| 13 | ‘ With Lime Grove then , if you were planning a long shot from any particular place you had to be sure the camera could physically get to that exact spot to take it . |
| 14 | London was full of young men from the war with connections new and old , quicker at the game , civilian spivs , career barrow-boys ; to get what you wanted you had to be hard and fast : no lingering . |
| 15 | You had to be careful with officials . |
| 16 | You had to be careful around that part of the world . |
| 17 | He had no really bad faults but you had to be careful that nothing startled him , such as a bird suddenly rising , and on one occasion he did bolt . |
| 18 | You had to be careful with it , so the outfields were rougher and dryer . |
| 19 | So you had to be careful of him . |
| 20 | And you had to be careful and you had to keep your hands clean . |
| 21 | You had to be careful walking home , not walk like a zombie , sticking your arms out with your fingers like a baby stretching out for a dropped dummy . |
| 22 | You had to be careful not to bump your head ; |
| 23 | You had to be careful that the builders did n't catch us . |
| 24 | You 've got to bear in mind though that , that , that the scriptures which you can use in the Hebrew context were before the resurrection was possible , so you had to be careful that er , that you do n't bounce because when Jesus came to the earth he changed that though did n't he ? |
| 25 | The sustain and the feedback was amazing , but boy , you had to be quick off the mark to damp the strings , or the whole thing would feed back unbelievably . |
| 26 | And then you had to be quick at it you know . |
| 27 | And you had to be quick you see , because the birds sometimes used to come and stop over . |
| 28 | And you had to be ready . |
| 29 | Since the turntable had a clockwork winding mechanism and the air-pump demanded continuous cranking while the disc played , you had to be fit to play a record ! |
| 30 | And you had to be Jewish . |