Example sentences of "they had go " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one had ever seen a bride or groom walk to their wedding ; even the very poor found a car for that day and in the old days they had gone by trap or sidecar . |
| 2 | The best man said he was n't used to speeches , he nearly had n't arrived at all himself , but he just wanted to thank Father here for all he had done and the people of the bride here for this feast and all the trouble they had gone to , and then he proposed the toast . |
| 3 | They had gone to the hospital by the Underground . |
| 4 | They had gone to the park . |
| 5 | After they had gone in and resumed their grind in the usual places , Rose came out to him and said gently , ‘ You were terrible , Daddy , to make them go down to the lake . ’ |
| 6 | After they had gone a complete silence that only reflected itself settled down like lead and was broken only by the sound of Moran removing his boots to go to bed early . |
| 7 | When they had gone , Lily cried for them in their helplessness , feeling , for all her weakness , stronger than them , realising that it was easier to contemplate one 's own death than the death of someone loved . |
| 8 | The rebels in Makati calmly bargained for surrender terms which , they insisted , should include her own resignation — and the terms behind the government 's report that they had gone back to barracks were not immediately clear this morning . |
| 9 | Indeed , Eoin O'Duffy , who led an Irish contingent to Spain to help Franco , maintained that they had gone to fight the battle of Christianity against Communism , a view which was confirmed for them by the Irish Dominican father , Revd Paul O' Sullivan when he said : |
| 10 | A forest of hands clutching a variety of tickets waved about his head like the tentacles of a sea anemone and he began patiently to explain where they had gone wrong . |
| 11 | I thought they had gone to join Rodney , but no ! |
| 12 | They had gone all over the place ; peeking into the Oval Office ( but the little rope was across , Hakim said ) ; stopping on the stairs to look at a picture called The Canine Cabinet , in which North pointed out a drowsing member and said it was Casey ; and into the Roosevelt Room , where North showed the young Iranian the Nobel Prize won by Theodore Roosevelt for negotiating peace between the Russians and the Japanese . |
| 13 | When they had gone some way from here , the Garda received a radio message , stopped and turned around . |
| 14 | On the morning of November 18th , when Wilson stood in the street to wave goodbye to the Brownings , it was hot enough for her to want to move into the shade as soon as they had gone . |
| 15 | Then , when they had gone , I began slowly to follow their splashes . |
| 16 | The king 's foresters and verderers complained at the Huntingdon Forest Eyre in 1286 that they had gone to Benwick to make an inquest of the venison . |
| 17 | And when , lunch over , they had gone to sit in the garden of the Lur Inn and the Colonel removed his jacket , Elisabeth was equally impressed by the pullover he was wearing . |
| 18 | Brixton finished the season undefeated , though they had gone into the match knowing that defeat would give Britannia the title on sets won . |
| 19 | The girls had come out of surgery ‘ looking like they had gone a couple of rounds with Frank Bruno ’ . |
| 20 | Before you could say Maradona , Boss Man had won and they had gone in a puff of Deep Heat vapour . |
| 21 | Wonderfully neat in their red and black practice clothes , they had gone through the rigours of a simplified ballet barre ( with varying degrees of stoicism ) , a mime sequence ( much enthusiasm ) and foot-stretching exercises ( giggles and pretend moans ) . |
| 22 | The main problem with MI6 at the time was that all the senior people were amateurs who had joined MI6 only because they had gone to the right school , wore the right sort of tie and dined at the right clubs . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , by 1846 they had gone bankrupt . |
| 24 | Their stay at Lightpill was relatively brief ; by 1830 they had gone . |
| 25 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 26 | By the end of 1987 the furthest that they had gone was to accept ‘ non-PLO ’ Palestinians to represent them in a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation , but they drew the line at renouncing violence or recognizing Israel 's right to exist . |
| 27 | All fees were abolished — they had gone from elementary schools in 1918 , at the end of the First World War , and now parents in Cardiff would not have to pay ten guineas per annum for access to Blake and Donne . |
| 28 | Newman guessed they had gone to the security vault behind the counter . |
| 29 | Apart from being baked hard by the heat of the lava , these sediments were quite undisturbed , and had been carried bodily as smoothly as if they had gone up in a lift . |
| 30 | When they had gone , I settled down to the potato and made a mug of tea . |