Example sentences of "[noun pl] had go " in BNC.
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| 1 | They believed that peoples had to go from one stage to another with mechanical regularity and in predictable order . |
| 2 | According to some critics , the ‘ Heshang ’ authors had gone too far and there were signs that a backlash might be imminent . |
| 3 | He built the famous shark sculpture sticking out of Bill Heine 's house at Headington in Oxford , and also the legs which once adourned the front of Mr Heine 's Oxford cinema , Not the Moulin Rouge , but the lease ran out and the famous legs had to go . |
| 4 | When it was over , the top of his head ached where it had been crammed up against the headboard and there were red marks just below his knees where his legs had gone over the footboard . |
| 5 | His sisters had curtsied to the vicar ; his brothers had gone to war in 1914 , and one of them had died at Vimy Ridge ; his father had been a farm bailiff and died in 1911 after being bitten by a horse ( misnamed Lucky ) . |
| 6 | Given this topic framework , J is constrained from talking about these things unless he introduces into the topic framework some additional information which he could then treat as shared by his hearer-that one of his brothers had gone to Australia to train as a brain surgeon and he considered doing the same , but settled for bricklaying instead . |
| 7 | These offers were meant to demonstrate that the two younger brothers had gone to the very limit of reasonable concessions , and hence would bear no guilt for the casualties of battle . |
| 8 | When we were out for lunch a few weeks ago , Alan asked where I was brought up and I said popped out on stalks two brothers had gone to school at . |
| 9 | Even the animals had gone — the cows and chickens to Jimale : the horses wherever they chose to wander , where the wind blew and the grass was thick : the sheep to their mountain grazing-land to the north of the village , facing Jimale across the valley . |
| 10 | One of the soft white animals had gone to sleep and the other went across the desk to sniff at it . |
| 11 | ‘ Except it was closed for Christmas and the animals had gone on their holidays . ’ |
| 12 | She seemed to have taken a turn for the worse , her eyes had gone dull and slitty again with a third kind of lid coming half across . |
| 13 | Cardiff shook his head , and this time the half-humour in Rohmer 's eyes had gone . |
| 14 | If only there is a way — ’ And stopped , because Nuadu 's eyes had gone to the silver door . |
| 15 | The sweat that had begun in anticipation of what she might encounter in the street now ran in fear of her mother 's rage ; Nunzia 's eyes had gone hard and wrinkled like black olive pips when Rosa had produced the plover , and she had clucked impatiently with her tongue when Rosa lied and said her grandfather had shot it and presented it to her . |
| 16 | Eleanor 's eyes had gone completely empty , as if Julius 's blunt words had knocked every little bit of life out of her . |
| 17 | Springfield 's faded blue eyes had gone flint hard as he spoke . |
| 18 | His eyes had gone to positive slits by now . |
| 19 | His eyes had gone from sapphire to a blue so dark it was almost black . |
| 20 | The most telling accounts were to be seen in the local press whose journalists had gone along on routine reporting assignments and tried to come to terms with the decidedly un-pop star look of the performers on stage . |
| 21 | He wished all the units had gone self-governing to allow the district to concentrate on its needs assessment and purchasing role and predicted that the units might be expecting a cosier relationship than he anticipated . |
| 22 | The clergy had to go to these rather dreadful places , but it was a pity |
| 23 | John Browne had been sacked in Winchester while others who had incurred the disapproval of their local parties had gone quietly . |
| 24 | The necking kids had gone . |
| 25 | Poor old Steven : he was n't to know that , while he had been busy trying to make grown-up movies , the trendiest kids had gone off Michael Jackson and the Ninja Turtles and transferred their allegiance to metal-headed dipsticks such as Bill and Ted , or Wayne and Garth from Wayne 's World , the year 's hotsiest hit-flick ( which comes down your way in May ) . |
| 26 | The night was drawing in and the kids had gone home and the tunnel under the embankment was deep in shadow . |
| 27 | Then of course , then when they the kids went up , did n't know where they were going , and the parents did n't know but they found new found freedom because all the bloody kids had gone to the countryside |
| 28 | That little girl had to struggle on because the flat rent had to be paid , she had to struggle on because she had a car , kids had to go to school , until she died . |
| 29 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 30 | Early down-town theatres could rely on the casual trade , the ‘ droppers-in ’ , but small-town and suburban halls had to go after their trade and it was essential that managers acquaint the whole community with what was on offer . |