Example sentences of "had go [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Say you had to go to a dental appointment . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Because the bus had no radio or mobile telephone the civilian driver had to go to a nearby farmhouse to call the police . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | All proposals had to go through a protective sieve , an inner filtration to correspond to the standard he sets for his work . |
| 7 | All proposals had to go through a protective sieve , an inner filtration to correspond to the standard he sets for his work . |
| 8 | Although the pharmacist seemed to have some trouble deciphering the prescription , and Henry had to go through a nerve-wracking pantomime of ignorance about the nature of the chemicals he required , it was n't long before he was standing once again on the doorstep of 54 Maple Drive . |
| 9 | They had to go through a long interrogation , and their answers were not found to be satisfactory . |
| 10 | Speaking from a personal experience , I had to go through a similar kind of programme after years of cocaine abuse . |
| 11 | So we had to go through a whole charade of auditioning a second guitarist . |
| 12 | ‘ I had gone through a poor year in Test cricket and wanted to play in England to check out my technique . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Murphy , whose face had gone through a perfect pantomime of reactions during her speech , now nodded silently , his complexion purple . |
| 15 | Suddenly the little girl lost , the lovable teenager , had gone through a startling catharsis . |
| 16 | ‘ Paula started to tell me about another woman who Eddie had begun seeing and she said that the marriage had gone through a bad patch and divorce proceedings had been started , ’ Miss Coltman said . |
| 17 | Then , half an hour later , he was taken away by the police for the way in which , in his bid to make amends , he had gone through a red light . |
| 18 | As I have said , after the abandonment of his undertaking uniform he had gone through a dodgy bookie/snake-oil purveyor period . |
| 19 | Alexandra had gone for a long walk before replying to this letter . |
| 20 | It had been rather an expensive one as he had gone for a fleecy-lined designer number with flashes of blue , to match his eyes , on the shoulders and down the legs . |
| 21 | He had gone for a short walk over some fields — his constitutional — and had met a woman pushing a bicycle . |
| 22 | She had gone to a convalescent home in Bournemouth . |
| 23 | After leaving the letter in a drawer she had gone to a nearby town and booked in at a hotel . |
| 24 | The record industry in both Britain and America had gone into a worldwide recession , and Virgin were as vulnerable to its effects as anybody else . |
| 25 | Soon after his kidnap Tom had gone into a serious depression — he suffered from them periodically . |
| 26 | The then modish humanity had gone into a violent reaction against the ancient severity , ‘ and might almost be supposed to see in the fact of having lost or squandered other people 's property a peculiar title to indulgence . ‘ |
| 27 | The plane had gone into a steep descent and an explosion ripped the air . |
| 28 | McLeish , who remembered that she had been left £200,000 outright , received this as further evidence that the young woman had gone into a massive sulk after her uncle 's unexpected death . |