Example sentences of "[pron] have go [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd gone for a walk .
2 He said he did n't want to see my baby , and that I had to go into a home for unmarried mothers .
3 A little while after that my Mum went to live with my sister and her family , so I had to go into a bedsit .
4 Erm I had to go to a table like that which said square roots and I had to look up twenty
5 I had to go for a piss .
6 I had to go for a piss , so I did n't watch him for very long .
7 In the morning I explained to Diana and Mary that I had to go on a journey , and would be away for several days .
8 I had gone through a marriage break-up and had a lot of financial commitments . ’
9 I had gone to a town about a hundred miles north of Rangoon and had spent Christmas night in a village seventeen miles away .
10 Paul and I had gone for a walk along the sand , northwards on a calm , bright autumn day after a ferocious storm the night before that had ripped slates off the roof of the house , torn up one of the trees by the old sheep-pen and even snapped one of the cables on the suspension foot-bridge .
11 ‘ I 'm afraid I 've gone on a bit , My Lord Chairman , ’ he said apologetically .
12 I 've gone on a bit but
13 Thus in a self-contract he may make a contract such as ‘ if at the end of the week I have gone without a drink , or lost x lbs in weight , I can buy myself … ’ .
14 Dr John Little , president of the Cambridge club , said : ‘ I ca n't say unequivocally but I have gone through a history of the club and there is no mention of it there . ’
15 Like many others , I suspect , I have gone into a shop of whatever description linked to a current hobby , have asked a few pertinent questions , and have then exited clutching some new-bought kit .
16 I have to go to a cocktail party at the Library Association this evening , ’ he went on , ‘ so I 'm afraid I sha n't be able to be the ministering angel .
17 Sometimes , when I have to make precious substances such as toenail cheese or belly-button fluff , I have to go without a shower or bath for days and days ; I hate doing this because I soon feel dirty and itchy , and the only bright thing about such abstinence is how good it feels to have a shower at the end of it .
18 someone 's gone for a swim
19 " Somebody 's gone to a lot of trouble to remove anything that might give a clue to his identity , " Redpath said .
20 An older person who has been accustomed to being in charge does n't suddenly stop feeling responsible for other people just because he or she has gone into a Home .
21 In the past she has gone as a pillion passenger on husband Steve 's bike .
22 Now she has gone to a post at Hendon responsible for training new recruits .
23 I 've got this friend who is slim , and she keeps saying she has to go on a diet , so you think : well , if she had to go on a diet , what must I be like ?
24 I mean luckily you , you know , you 'd gone on a car , with a car so it 's a matter of throwing everything in the back and just going
25 Your nanny told me you 'd gone for a walk .
26 But as of , as of nineteen forty eight forty nine , if you 'd said you 'd gone into a village , right you guys we 're going into socialism , we are gon na create collective farming the peasants would have said no .
27 For a while there I thought you 'd gone into a coma .
28 His wife Margaret had n't been there ; she 'd gone to a meeting of her rock garden club .
29 she 'd gone for a couple of days when she was up but she says she has n't been up to see her for about eighteen months !
30 Ash stopped so suddenly I wondered where she 'd gone for a moment .
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