Example sentences of "[noun sg] had go [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 26 the South African Council of Churches issued a call for a national council of " leaders of the affected communities " to meet within a week , arguing that the violence had gone beyond the control of the ANC and Inkatha . |
| 2 | All the snow had gone from the tops and the sun was really warm . |
| 3 | De Gaulle reacted like a sullen schoolboy ; the august professor had gone for a while . |
| 4 | She was moving to the great gates and before Maggie could react the white-gowned figure had gone around the corner and out of sight . |
| 5 | It was the place where the coach had gone off the road twenty years before . |
| 6 | The arrow had gone through the directories , through the pillows and the back of the sofa , and into the wall behind . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He said the other boy had gone into the dormitory and he had had his fingers on the door surround when the door , which had a power unit attached to it , had started to swing shut . |
| 10 | A Crown lawyer said that Hall had gone to the Co Galway resort of Salthill with a group of friends where they had rented a house for a week last July . |
| 11 | The fuel gauge had gone on the blink shortly after the start , but pulling in for a pit-stop would cost him precious seconds . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It delighted her to think that the girl had gone into the night , alone and unloved and growing with child . |
| 14 | Bristol Crown Court was told that the girl had gone to the shops with a friend and stolen two cans of body spray . |
| 15 | Bristol Crown Court was told that on the day in question , the girl had gone to the shops with a friend , and stolen two cans of aerosol body spray . |
| 16 | Among the more interesting snippets which Norma chose to share with the electorate was the fact that her washing machine had gone on the blink , a button had fallen off her jacket — but , hey ! — she sewed it back on . |
| 17 | Fleming the teacher had gone into the manse as soon as Cameron finished . |
| 18 | If the bomb had gone off a minute later I would have been right next to it . ’ |
| 19 | The factor had gone into the castle , ‘ to get his orders from his master , ’ as Cameron put it . |
| 20 | All colour had gone from the landscape , leaving the ground a kind of shimmering , bright grey on which every bush and stunted tree appeared as a black silhouette . |
| 21 | I was led into all these commitments in a very friendly and deferential spirit , and in a similar spirit of friendship and hospitality I was invited to numerous social engagements , from impressive lunch in honour of the Minister of Education to an invitation to a private home in Jaipur , where my kind host and hostess had gone to the trouble of preparing sandwiches , cake , chips ( without the fish ) and pudding , in case I should not like the Indian dishes served for the other guests ! |
| 22 | If you measure the atmospheric rise in carbon dioxide due to fossil fuel burning , you 'll see that it 's only about one half of that predicted if all of the coal and oil that had been burnt since the industrial revolution had gone into the atmosphere , we would probably have er an increase in C O two double what we can actually measure . |
| 23 | The kitten had to go to the vet three times in as many weeks and was more expensive than the baby . |
| 24 | The last glow had gone from the sunflowers now and they hung their heads on their spindly supports . |
| 25 | The other had gone for the Wood but had entered well away from the large conifer Werewolf headed for . |
| 26 | By the time we found a space to stand in comfort most of his drink had gone with a gulp . |
| 27 | It was as if an electric shock had gone through the gathering . |
| 28 | He said at Dumfries Sheriff Court that he and his friend had gone to the upstairs lavatory in the dormitory building about half-an-hour after going to bed when they had been called over to the girls ' room . |
| 29 | Now the grey dew had gone from the grass , pats of dung steamed where the cattle had been standing , and Cameron , in his shirt-sleeves with a cloth tying back his long black hair , was supervising the winching up of timbers for the roof . |
| 30 | Before saying anything , the duo had gone across the street to meet the crowd . |