Example sentences of "had to go [prep] a [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 | Say you had to go to a dental appointment . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Because the bus had no radio or mobile telephone the civilian driver had to go to a nearby farmhouse to call the police . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | All proposals had to go through a protective sieve , an inner filtration to correspond to the standard he sets for his work . |
| 7 | All proposals had to go through a protective sieve , an inner filtration to correspond to the standard he sets for his work . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They had to go through a long interrogation , and their answers were not found to be satisfactory . |
| 10 | Speaking from a personal experience , I had to go through a similar kind of programme after years of cocaine abuse . |
| 11 | So we had to go through a whole charade of auditioning a second guitarist . |