It is hardly as if you had seen a wild creature when a rabbit or a partridge bursts away, only a natural one, as much to be expected as rustling leaves.
With axe and shovel you explore this mine, and follow the marrowy store, yellow as beef tallow, or as if you had struck on a vein of gold, deep into the earth.
And yet, if you had a discriminating ear, there were in it the elements of a concord such as these plains never saw nor heard.
Surely you knew that if you had striven so far, there you would have been met!
You had no business to pay my fine; you'd ort of let me worked it out.
You had no business to make her go out in the street like that.
Perhaps I should not have known you if you had changed a great deal--as I have!
Gage is a document which, in my sight, if you had filled me with bread when I was starving, if you had sat up to nurse my father when he lay a- dying, would yet absolve me from the bonds of gratitude.
If you had, and had recalled it, and looked about your pleasant rooms, even your pen perhaps would have been stayed.
You had a father: suppose this tale were about him, and some informant brought it to you, proof in hand: I am not making too high an estimate of your emotional nature when I suppose you would regret the circumstance?
And I think that if you had allowed it his oath would have been in danger.
She thinks that if you had come in her day, she would be worthy of your love.
If you had loved as I thought you did, you would still be mine.
I am happier with it than if you had given me the entire kingdom of France.
And so, sure enough, you had only to look at him to see he had never worked.
You had to pass through the rain, which still fell thick and resonant, to reach a lavatory on the other side of the court.
If you had been a wicked baron and compelled to stay there all the afternoon, you would have had a rare fit of remorse.
If you had been a man, you would have made a good lawyer--you would have taken juries by the scruff of their necks.
I might, very possibly, have declined to sleep in the room, if you had reserved it,' he said.
If you had captured Mr. Pettigrew himself you would stand a better chance of making it pay.
So would you be if you had lived so much in the Middle Ages as I have done these last few years!
You might have thrown them aside if you had liked, but as to soiling them like that, it is disgusting!
You had been so very good and kind to me that when you were out of sight I felt what a cruel and ungrateful woman I was to say it, and it has reproached me ever since.
If you had noticed, you must have seen this evening that he has not left us so much as an egg, except these walls which are new; for he has razed the entire town.
Erec replies: "You had an evil thought, when you transgressed my command--a thing which I had forbidden you.
Upon my word, if you had a hundred to pick from, you would not find a better one than the dappled mount.
The men who falsely accuse me are all ready before me here; if you had been a little later I should soon have been reduced to fuel and ashes.
And I should have given you up if you had succeeded--precisely as I said," replied he.
If you had done it any less well, it would have been folly for you to go on.
If you are so awfully impartial, you had better go and ask her.
They would be if you had a little good-will--if you entered a little into my dilemma.
You had so cultivated her mind and polished her manners that her attractions were doubled, and I fell an easy victim to them.
You'd be ashamed if you hadher as a wife--wouldn't you?
But if you had tried to say the words your lungs would have collapsed, your vocal chords snapped and your tongue shriveled.
If you had a nursery full of children--or did the heavy housework--you'd never think of these foolish moonshiny things.
Counting all she spent and arranged to spend in those first few weeks, you had no great total.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you had" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
