Example sentences of "you had [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you say all you had to say to him ? ’ |
| 2 | I was interested to read what you had to say about the safest types of bedding for babies on the Solutions page in your August issue . |
| 3 | I wondered what you had to say about it . ’ |
| 4 | Pop and I remember going up to the captain 's cabin after you had gone to bed and eating lovely bala chaung sandwiches . |
| 5 | She came yesterday afternoon , even though she knew it was n't my afternoon , hoping to find you , but of course you had gone to the Rectory , and begged me to persuade you to go to Langley Dene on Saturday . |
| 6 | You know you had gone through the whole C C Q and the priority was the pension , that 's what I got wrong . |
| 7 | You had to leave for work at 8.25 . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought you had sailed on the schooner with the others . ’ |
| 9 | She 's silent for a while , then says , ‘ The other day ’ — she 's soaping the front of my legs now , from behind — ‘ when you had to sit through Eldorado in that really uncomfortable position ; you enjoyed that , did n't you ? ’ |
| 10 | So , they could n't get it into their heads that you had to sit on the floor . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You had to hop to it — it was considered to be a privilege from the sergeant and you had to go in here and strip down , and scrub windows and that sort of thing . |
| 13 | ‘ You had to drive to Karlovy Vary , and invited me along . ’ |
| 14 | DeFries had an idea that to be a star you had to act like a star so everything was first class . |
| 15 | Marie , still in her pyjamas , was sitting slumped at the table that took up most of the floor space : you had to squeeze round it to move about at all in the tiny kitchen , and Marie 's legs had permanent bruises from its sharp comers . |
| 16 | ‘ Your father did n't warn me quite what a striking young woman you had grown into , ’ the Princesse said in English with a wry glint in her eye . |
| 17 | When my master summoned me and told me you had written to him , at first I was angry with you for betraying my and I blessed you . |
| 18 | I draw the attention of my hon. Friend to the recent threats issued by the Labour party candidate in Orkney and Shetland , who said that , by doing this , ’ it could certainly be argued by an incoming Labour Administration that you had contributed to your own redundancy . ’ |
| 19 | I remind the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) — he seems not to wish to rise on these matters — that the letter from the Labour party candidate to the trust applicant reads : ’ Were you to do this ’ — continue with the trust — ’ in the face of so much opposition , it could certainly be argued by an incoming Labour Administration that you had contributed to your own redundancy . ’ |
| 20 | You had to talk to those dear old folk at the Empress and I do n't blame you . |
| 21 | She had seen it far too often : the self-inflicted divorces , the ones you had to talk to before lunch because the rest of their day was an alcoholic marsh , those shunted to a not-too-responsible job in the Registry or an early pension — ; Peace hath its victims no less renowned than war . |
| 22 | I think even Billy knew you had to sleep with somebody before that happened . |
| 23 | Perhaps even more important is the inclusion of a preview facility since before you could not see the effects you had selected until printing out . |
| 24 | ‘ You had separated from your wife more than 15 months earlier . |
| 25 | Once upon a time , of course , when you craved new clothes , you had to save for them — a quaint custom almost as outdated as horsedrawn carriages and farthingales . |
| 26 | In this case your review might focus on the differences you had observed between the way the best and worst chairperson had undertaken the task . |
| 27 | He heard himself , it sounded like a door opening somewhere inside him , it was an old door , it had been stuck for years , you had to heave on it , you needed all your strength , and then it gave a few inches , and cried out as it gave . |
| 28 | Equally , to get work during the war you had to settle for less distinguished outfits , like the Turin Radio Symphony Orchestra . |
| 29 | Erm cos I I , well I did n't know what you had planned for tomorrow afternoon though . |
| 30 | If you knew about show-jumping , you had heard of Nutty McTavish , even seen her on television in replay when there was a lull in the senior event and the commentator decided to fill in with earlier happenings . |