Example sentences of "[pers pn] have go [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this premise was there at that time and by oh I had to go to a great extent on a number of visits and they er granted it me on compassionate grounds and there 's er I was only looking in the back of there the other day and there 's one there now . |
| 2 | Speaking from a personal experience , I had to go through a similar kind of programme after years of cocaine abuse . |
| 3 | ‘ I had gone through a poor year in Test cricket and wanted to play in England to check out my technique . |
| 4 | The night before , I had gone for a long , lonely walk along the banks of the Tormes , crossing and recrossing the Roman bridge , hoping against hope that I might somehow find you also walking there . |
| 5 | I do n't think so she 's erm slow , she 's , she 's like erm , she has to go to a special school |
| 6 | Erm it looks like you 've gone from a lower cost one to a higher cost one . |
| 7 | But she heard herself saying , still in shrewish style , that on the contrary there was n't any time in the morning , that she had to go to a psychoanalytical conference in the Metropole Hotel with a bunch of Japanese in the morning , that she wanted to talk now , that he could n't just announce that he wanted to get divorced and then decide he was too tired to talk about it . |
| 8 | She had gone to a convalescent home in Bournemouth . |
| 9 | After leaving the letter in a drawer she had gone to a nearby town and booked in at a hotel . |
| 10 | The road to the Fire Court looked quite straightforward really ; it seemed as if you had to go past a large lake and on down a narrow , windy mountain road with houses dotted on each side . |
| 11 | Say you had to go to a dental appointment . |
| 12 | The cost of photocopying can mount up if you have to go to a local shop and pay several pence a sheet , whereas there are very likely to be local supporters who have photocopiers and are willing to run off a hundred copies at no charge . |
| 13 | I do n't know how much the discount is for each game , or wether you have to go to a special members area which probably costs more than without vouchers anyway . |
| 14 | If you have to go through a smoke-filled area , crawl with your head low |
| 15 | Most clubs , you have to go through a long rigmarole of being proposed and seconded and vouched for by other members and having your background scrutinised , and weeks and months go by before you 're elected . |
| 16 | You have to go through a short course at the R A F College Cranwell and then once that that teaches you the R A F side of it makes you into an officer because at the end of the day you maybe there to do public relations but if the spaghetti hits the fan you 're an officer and you 're a combatant and you know you carry a gun around when you 're in a war zone and you know you 're expected to use it and if the senior officer of the unit next to you gets shot and you 're the most senior officer then you take over |
| 17 | ‘ I would have said what I have if we 'd gone to a fun-fair , ’ said Helen . |
| 18 | Cos we 've gone through a whole sort of full circle about taking a stance that 's very aggressive in terms of saying if we i i if we tender for something we 're gon na hit the client with V Os and this that and the other . |
| 19 | Now we 've gone to a blue screen . |
| 20 | We 've gone from a more-or-less carefree kind of life of our twenties , in which the car , the flat and the girlfriend/ boyfriend were about the only real constituents — to a world in which everyone wants a piece of our time , in which we have to make decisions ( fundamental , trivial , pregnant with import ) every three minutes . |
| 21 | So we had to go through a whole charade of auditioning a second guitarist . |
| 22 | And how are we to make alliances with those women or are we to say that we do not wish to do so until they 've gone through a greater degree of learning process . |
| 23 | Her brother Mr Bhatti , of Lawrence Street , Dundee , told Lord Osborne that under their faith a couple were not considered to be married until they had gone through a religious ceremony before a Mullah . |
| 24 | They had to go through a long interrogation , and their answers were not found to be satisfactory . |
| 25 | In a lifetime they have gone from a self-assured majority to a beleaguered minority , strangely distanced from the city that has grown up around them . |
| 26 | They have to go for a dental inspection |
| 27 | As that , yeah that 's what I said , I said , they have to go in a yellow book if they 're really naughty which he has n't done yet and then they have to go to Mrs so I said well you 'll be going to Mrs if you do n't |
| 28 | It was as if he 'd gone into a different world . ’ |
| 29 | Maybe it was because he had gone to a private high school . |
| 30 | As I have said , after the abandonment of his undertaking uniform he had gone through a dodgy bookie/snake-oil purveyor period . |