Example sentences of "had go [conj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I was saddened that it was felt I had to go but I suppose it was unsurprising , ’ he said .
2 Were n't no good saying you would n't do it , you had to do it and you had to go whether that was raining or not , yeah cos people relied on you taking round little bit of meat for their dinner that day , yeah .
3 So I had to go and put Nick straight , tell him that he was n't even one of the band , just a mate who 'd come and play with us every now and then .
4 The Prince , of course , had to go and say hello , and disappeared once again , emerging ten minutes later having had a long discussion with the chief brass player .
5 Had to go and leave my dandelions to look for you , now they 've all gone to sleep . ’
6 I felt awful as other children were upset and their mums looked horrified so I had to go and explain to each mum individually why I thought she did it and say that they were to feel free to stop her themselves and explain .
7 He had to go and sit in the woodshed and smoke it .
8 And Seve 's back was a real pain — the cold got to it and it troubled him so much that we had to go and find a physiotherapist .
9 We asked if she was getting tired of being subjected to all these questions , and she said that she had a few more minutes before she had to go and meet Jack and Rod for lunch .
10 The man might have seen us , Vern and me — he was trying to do a rough count , I could see his lips — but there were some screaming kids trying to push in behind the Germans and he had to go and sort them out .
11 We talked for a while about the hunt — she wanted to know how much meat we 'd eaten , what the men had talked about — and then she said she had to go and graze the cows .
12 After getting the flying bag and doing all the planning and paying Operations , we were so hungry that we had to go and eat at what turned out to be an excellent restaurant where all the airport employees go as well as the passengers .
13 Celia put two of the beers on the table , then she stood back , knuckles of her right hand on her hip , and said she had to go and talk to someone .
14 People stood shoulder to shoulder , they had to go and fight together .
15 I would have been there the day but I had to go and marry a lass from down here , and she would n't leave her mother .
16 I had to go and find a new damn school myself . ’
17 But her sister refused , so the younger one had to go and ask for herself .
18 I had to go and fetch water from two blocks away at 5 a.m. before setting off to the market .
19 When one day Jean-Claude had to go and find a spare part for the Motobécane which was not obtainable in Théovard , Otto cornered me .
20 All 53 members of the squad had to go and been seen to go , even though , he acknowledged , he was ‘ cutting into good wood ’ .
21 I could n't argue with him I just had to go and say oh well it 's just my age and get on with it !
22 I then had to go and have an interview which I passed .
23 Her husband died in a car accident and I had to go and tell his wife .
24 I think he had to go and see a man about some business , ’ said Mary .
25 I had to go and find Ernest , did n't I ?
26 Well my husband was out o on strike and I 'd erm got two babies , a year and ten months , and I felt that I had to go and get a job and I was desperate so I 'd heard people talking about these things as they did so I thought well I 've got to do something .
27 But we had to go and take it into his culler I had one day at that , I thought I thought I 'd had enough coal .
28 I mean I can remember the nineteen twenty , I I were n't sure whether it was the twenty one or the twenty six strike , and my father was erm on strike , you see , but the ponies had to be thus cared for in the field an I do n't think he received any pay and I remember very well erm going to the , my father applying for relief , and er we had to go and face the erm Court of Referees .
29 I had to go and get it up across the road .
30 Of course it was right : this poor owd cow , she ran right across these fields there , what they call Brookey 's Wood ; and they had to go and fetch her .
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