Example sentences of "had to go [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their neighbours in the farm beyond were also raided that morning , and to get to that farm the police cars had to go past Mrs B 's front door . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was next to a postcard-seller , and to get to it you had to go past a row of very strange postcards stuck on the railings : views of Cairo , oleographs of Levantine saints , scenes of the Massacre of the Marmelukes and from the Great War of Independence , portraits of the Madonna and of St Catherine , and , of course , hundreds of indecent photographs , very precise in some respects , strangely vague in others . |
| 4 | So we had to go past this little shed which is right up right up this stupid grass earthy bank right over the side so we could see quickly how to get in . |
| 5 | So I had to go past him and I went past him and my friend gave |
| 6 | The security search fee was non-returnable even if a loan was not granted , and increased by a shilling for every mile the searcher had to go beyond two miles . |
| 7 | To have a drink on a Sunday , he had to be a ‘ bonna-fide traveller ’ , and had to go at least three or four miles before he would be served . |
| 8 | The tank had to go at the end of the little landing . |
| 9 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 10 | We had , we had to get there before six , when they shut , we had to go at half past five , . |
| 11 | Nothing else was right , you had to go for the best in life , and I suppose we 've always felt that . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I told him how I had to go for special lessons and how other kids would sometimes laugh or pick on me . |
| 13 | You had to go for it . |
| 14 | Just a few miles North of Annesley the engine failed on the Tibshelf bank , so I had to go for assistance . |
| 15 | I had to go for a piss . |
| 16 | She suspected that she was pregnant when she began seeing Alan , but this was only confirmed when she had to go for a check-up because Alan had a urinal infection . |
| 17 | I had to go for consumption . |
| 18 | Sometimes informants and subsources in Lebanon had to go for weeks without pay because of budget cuts and red tape , El-Jorr complained , citing names , chapter and verse . |
| 19 | I had to go for a piss , so I did n't watch him for very long . |
| 20 | They 're here all this morning , but they had to go for another meeting . |
| 21 | ‘ Elaine said she had to go for a blood test . |
| 22 | Until a few weeks ago skin patients had to go for their treatment to the old dermatology hospital in this old TB ward , while research was carried out in a couple of temporary buildings . |
| 23 | We had to go on the Green Line bus . ’ |
| 24 | I 've got this friend who is slim , and she keeps saying she has to go on a diet , so you think : well , if she had to go on a diet , what must I be like ? |
| 25 | Had to go on duty in my Sunday ones ; got them wet through … |
| 26 | No matter how bad the storm was she had to go on deck , where at least the air was clean . |
| 27 | Men with malaria now had to go on patrol . |
| 28 | It has to be said however that the presbytery , presbytery clerks er write their own agenda for these meetings er for these conferences and er it would be up to presbyteries to instruct their clerks that that had to go on their agenda . |
| 29 | You had to go on Governor 's app [ put in an application to the Governor ] to ask to get your toenails cut . |
| 30 | In the morning I explained to Diana and Mary that I had to go on a journey , and would be away for several days . |