Example sentences of "[noun sg] had go [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Gaulle reacted like a sullen schoolboy ; the august professor had gone for a while . |
| 2 | He got back here late this morning , saying the swap had gone without a hitch and clutching the photograph of Sam we 'd been promised . |
| 3 | So it was that Edward Carrington became the driver , and so it was they turned up at Florence Drive to learn that Major Barrie of the Home Guard had gone with a lieutenant and two soldiers of the Eleventh Cameronians to escort the prisoner to Maryhill Barracks , on the other side of the city . |
| 4 | This is believed to be the first time that an attempt has been made to compile a complete statistical record of Soviet economic development assistance to the less developed countries since it started on a formal basis in 1954 ; by 1983 such assistance had gone to a total of 57 countries . |
| 5 | If the bomb had gone off a minute later I would have been right next to it . ’ |
| 6 | By the time we found a space to stand in comfort most of his drink had gone with a gulp . |
| 7 | He happens to be a minister and found himself amid considerable grief telling his young family that their dog had gone for a walk with Jesus . |
| 8 | On Monday 27 February Fleischmann and Pons were due to bring their working cell to Brigham Young University for the neutron spectrum to be measured , but a graduate student had to go to a funeral and so they suggested it would be better to come at the end of the week instead . |
| 9 | Stupid burk had gone on a crane like that |
| 10 | Thus there could be no economies of scale in case a sleeve cut from one lay of medium blue had to go with a dress cut from another lay of so-called medium blue . |
| 11 | The matron also told us that this patient had to go into a nursing home ‘ towards the end ’ because ‘ she needed morphine injections which the doctor would n't give otherwise she would n't have had to move to somewhere strange . |
| 12 | It was n't exactly square on to the place where Sal 's Golf had gone for a roll , but it was n't far off . |
| 13 | She hurried away through the swing doors , then out again to tell Dot , more kindly , that her brother had gone on a journey . |
| 14 | Dale 's father , Michael , said the family had gone for a day trip and returned early in the evening . |
| 15 | Cos I was on me own and er I me ma I think me mother had gone of an errand and of course I run after her . |