Example sentences of "had go [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're here all this morning , but they had to go for another meeting . |
| 2 | Anyway , the show had to go on that night . |
| 3 | and all our shopping was down at the Old Town , you had to go down this lane to the Old Town if you wanted a stamp |
| 4 | I remember we arrived during a heat wave and had to go into this refrigerator where they kept the furs . |
| 5 | Yet he had photographs of her in every jacket pocket , and they fell out of books at the wrong time and upset Eva ; and when he asked me about Mum , Dad and I had to go into another room , away from Eva , as if we were discussing something disgraceful . |
| 6 | And you all had to go over that side . |
| 7 | You had to go to such trouble to persuade the subject to accept the poison and when ( or rather , in his case if ) you managed it , your very intimacy made it all too clear to everyone that you were the one who was slipping them the doctored crumble , the dodgy spaghetti bolognese or the potato salad unusually rich in mineral salts . |
| 8 | no it was really New Town school children , because there was Forbert and Barnard 's school down the Old Town and that 's where the Old Town , all the Old Town people went , children went , so really Mark Hall was just New Town children you know , and then when , when we were eleven and had to go to another school we , er there was no comprehensive school in Harlow then , er we had to get on a bus and go to Chingford that was , did n't we ? |
| 9 | Apparently Gagarin said that when he looked out of the right window of his spacecraft and glimpsed the earth for the first time , he had an experience or sense of — and then he used a word which the interpreter did not know the meaning of , so he had to go to another table and ask another interpreter to help . |
| 10 | During my boyhood my special task in the family was to look after our cattle , sheep and goats ; therefore I had to go through this training , and afterwards taught my brothers . |
| 11 | ‘ They made us chase shadows for long spells but we had to go after this game and that situation was tailor-made for Spartak , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ I went to Co Tyrone , my mother 's county , with the cup all day and then came home and sat at the fire with my wife and talked about the hotel and what had gone on that day . ’ |
| 13 | Talks had gone on all day . |
| 14 | The coach had gone on another job . |
| 15 | I had gone for that X-ray in a state of anxious calm . |
| 16 | It was claimed that most Hungarian citizens were either not informed of how to purchase the shares or could not afford to do so , and that the bulk of the issue had gone to former party bosses or to foreign institutions . |
| 17 | We phoned a good , dear friend who as a midwife had gone to much trouble and arranged to deliver the baby . |
| 18 | It may be that the IRA , fearing informers , had gone to such lengths to restrict the knowledge of where the ‘ active service unit ’ was that it was unable to warn them that their presence was compromised . |
| 19 | But presumably he must have taken a shine , as the expression went , to Celia , particularly as he had gone to such trouble to seek her out and visit her at the Meadhaven Clinic . |
| 20 | Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% . |
| 21 | Helen had gone to some lengths over the picnic ; the recipe book included a relevant section , she discovered . |
| 22 | I had been asked for a full text of the sermon , to be printed in the society minutes and had gone to some trouble to prepare for the occasion . |
| 23 | The 1693 title-page calls attention to ‘ Alterations , Additions , and several new SONGS ’ , which is fair enough : Tonson had gone to some trouble to update it . |
| 24 | Sir Ralph Grunte had gone to some trouble over his constituency dinner party , La Noblesse being by no means cheap . |
| 25 | Nettie , after all , had gone to some trouble , with dishes of peppermint fondants and dark after-dinner chocolates , in addition to the steaming silver coffee-pot and the matching silver jug of thick fresh cream . |
| 26 | 2 June Beijing University postgraduate student Chai Qing Feng dies as a result of wounds received during a ‘ brawl ’ at a snack bar near to campus where he had gone with some friends to buy drinks . |
| 27 | She learnt that Gamal had gone with some friends to an island off the coast of Florida , so she told the person who answered the telephone to get hold of him immediately at any cost and tell him to call his mother on a matter of the greatest urgency . |
| 28 | It did not need the tug of her rein to stop , every ounce of its ability had gone into that leap . |
| 29 | ‘ Even at the age of eight years old , I knew how much love had gone into that case … ’ |
| 30 | So many dreams had gone into that house , so many hopes . |