Example sentences of "he had [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either he had to go up to the Broken Hill Ironworks at Newcastle or she had to go down to Canberra to see some official about tariffs or quotas or immigration levels . |
| 2 | This meant he had to go back to the county party and ask to be put back on their panel of candidates , a request which was turned down on Saturday . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's fine , ’ said Comfort , ‘ but he had to go back to the hospital after dinner . |
| 4 | In a moment he had jumped on to the horse 's back . |
| 5 | Grinning with surprise as if he had stumbled on to the This is Your Life set , his hand was pumped by Bill Wyman ( the Rolling Stone vote ) , Roland Butcher ( the cricketing vote ) , Gordon Banks ( the goalkeeping vote ) , Elaine Paige ( the musical vote ) , Patrick Moore ( the moon vote ) , Andrew Lloyd Webber ( the seriously rich vote ) and dozens more . |
| 6 | When he had gone through to the bedroom , tired , shaking , cold , she stripped herself of all the finery — fighting with clasps , pushing and twisting rings . |
| 7 | I thought he was following me and other hotel-guests to the shelter , but he was n't ; he had gone up to the roof ‘ to watch it all ’ . |
| 8 | Bewildered and hurt at her lack of interest , too shy to ask what the trouble was , he had gone back to the garage completely mystified , and had spent the rest of the evening painting his jalopy electric blue . |
| 9 | Kronweiser 's suspicions were set at rest , and he had gone back to the States . |
| 10 | Because he had gone back to the woodlands where the trees were . |
| 11 | In 1884 he had gone out to the Sudan with the rank of captain , and had been wounded at the battle of Abu Kru the following January . |
| 12 | He had gone out to the pub a couple of times with some old friends and was thinking of taking out a young woman he had met . |
| 13 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 14 | He had gone down to the stable earlier and seen that it was missing , so he went to look for it . |
| 15 | He had gone down to the cells to have a look and discovered that the prisoner was his former schoolmate . |
| 16 | He had fastened on to the fact that she was a Connor , played on memories of her father 's reputation for throwing races . |
| 17 | One owner found that his cat did this only on the floor of a new extension he had built on to the side of his house . |
| 18 | The sight of the handbag she 'd caught up as he 'd carried her from her flat and which he had tossed on to the bed gave her the glimmering of an idea . |
| 19 | For one thing , it had begun to rain as soon as he had climbed on to the car . |
| 20 | After he had taxied in to the terminal and parked the plane , he had checked the right engine and its hydraulic system with one of the Aeroflot engineers . |
| 21 | Mostly , he supposed , he was happy because she was going to be the most startling singer he had put on to the Hochhauser stage . |
| 22 | In common with some other contributors to Essays in Criticism he had come around to the view that the object of English should be to develop in students a " trained mind " rather than to produce " literary critics " or even " good readers " . |
| 23 | That she had always been in control before he had come on to the scene and turned everything upside-down . |
| 24 | In the twilight of the Great Drought he had come down to the river and filled his wheelbarrow with water until only a Samson could have moved it . |
| 25 | He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon . |
| 26 | He had come down to the Club that night with a real purpose , a purpose only half of which had been carried out at the meeting . |
| 27 | He had come down to the island to make sure all was well while his grandfather was in hospital . |
| 28 | After wartime service in the RAF he had come back to the School , and with his friends Mr. Norris and Mr. Hardie had helped to introduce Rugby to the School . |
| 29 | Someone sent somebody out to kill two hens ; a local gentleman , knowing the lie of the land , sent his servant to the inn with rum and sugar and an apology for not knowing of their arrival in sufficient time to put them up , and he had to leave for Inverness at the crack of dawn ; Boswell still had some bread despite the amount he had doled out to the Macraes . |
| 30 | Would he ever know which friends and fellows he had delivered over to the government in that one fatally careless moment ? |