Example sentences of "had to go [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The road to the Fire Court looked quite straightforward really ; it seemed as if you had to go past a large lake and on down a narrow , windy mountain road with houses dotted on each side . |
| 2 | We had to go on the Green Line bus . ’ |
| 3 | Sometimes Sweetheart had to go into the back room to buy something special . |
| 4 | Then I had to go into the Royal Marsden . |
| 5 | Say you had to go to a dental appointment . |
| 6 | But this premise was there at that time and by oh I had to go to a great extent on a number of visits and they er granted it me on compassionate grounds and there 's er I was only looking in the back of there the other day and there 's one there now . |
| 7 | Because the bus had no radio or mobile telephone the civilian driver had to go to a nearby farmhouse to call the police . |
| 8 | But she heard herself saying , still in shrewish style , that on the contrary there was n't any time in the morning , that she had to go to a psychoanalytical conference in the Metropole Hotel with a bunch of Japanese in the morning , that she wanted to talk now , that he could n't just announce that he wanted to get divorced and then decide he was too tired to talk about it . |
| 9 | It stipulated that at least 60 per cent of lending had to go to the private sector , and no more than 40 per cent to infrastructure projects . |
| 10 | Carlie had to go to the foster home because she could n't get along with her stepfather . |
| 11 | We always had to go to the big men on our knees and touch our forelocks and say ‘ Please can we do so and so … ? ’ |
| 12 | They said me and him had to go to the social security the next morning , and if he did n't he 'd be picked up . |
| 13 | From there things had grown even worse , and now she felt a sensation of panic if she even had to go to the local shops , in case she encountered a sparrow or two pecking at some crumbs in her path . |
| 14 | All proposals had to go through a protective sieve , an inner filtration to correspond to the standard he sets for his work . |
| 15 | All proposals had to go through a protective sieve , an inner filtration to correspond to the standard he sets for his work . |
| 16 | Although the pharmacist seemed to have some trouble deciphering the prescription , and Henry had to go through a nerve-wracking pantomime of ignorance about the nature of the chemicals he required , it was n't long before he was standing once again on the doorstep of 54 Maple Drive . |
| 17 | They had to go through a long interrogation , and their answers were not found to be satisfactory . |
| 18 | Speaking from a personal experience , I had to go through a similar kind of programme after years of cocaine abuse . |
| 19 | So we had to go through a whole charade of auditioning a second guitarist . |
| 20 | But one morning I came to play and I found that my clubs were not there ( they had been stolen ) I then had to go through the long task of making a claim to the insurance company to try and claim some money to replace the clubs I had lost . |
| 21 | In fact , you had to go through the humiliating procedure of explaining to everyone that it was indeed a public school . |
| 22 | Indeed , it was March that year before I managed to obtain a false set , which meant I had to go through the entire winter without a tooth in the top of my mouth . |
| 23 | Not only was the company interested exclusively in cheap pictures for the local market , but also Dean had to go through the ignominious process of securing cast approval on his pictures from Solly Newman , the head of the company 's UK subsidiary , whom he regarded as both ‘ illiterate ’ and ‘ over-shrewd where money was concerned . ’ |
| 24 | It was Charlie 's worst nightmare , he had to go through the public humiliation of denying he had a drink problem and retreated from the court saying , ‘ I 've been found guilty so there 's nothing anyone can do . |
| 25 | But er no , Sir Edward had to go through the full rigmarole of a meeting with the great man , I put that in inverted commas , but er I suppose he thinks he is , the great man himself , Saddam Hussein . |
| 26 | As a permanent secretary in the Department of the Environment I was an accounting officer , which meant as a civil servant I was responsible directly to parliament , which also meant I regularly had to go before the Public Accounts Committee . |
| 27 | I had to go round the other night , Saturday night , and you could n't get through the door . |