Example sentences of "have go [to-vb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Dedlock , lacking the life of the affections , is not bored but frozen to death ; the Victorian angel of domestic happiness has gone to shelter beneath a humbler roof . |
| 2 | Charles Brown , for example , was born in Northamptonshire in 1855 and had to go to work as a boy when his father , an agricultural labourer earning 12s. a week , was taken ill . |
| 3 | ‘ Leo actually had to go to work in a pair of my knickers , ’ Emma said . |
| 4 | Her marriage had broken up , and she had gone to live with a man who was starting an art gallery in the Lake District . |
| 5 | It had been the day he had gone to see about a job he had heard of for a general handyman who had some experience with animals . |
| 6 | He had gone to stay at a monastery and somehow a misunderstanding arose and he was asked if he had been baptised . |
| 7 | On odd days , a young woman who had gone to work as a governess at a remote Scottish house wrote to an employer she never saw about portraits which moved in the middle of the night and which , the governess wrote , appeared to speak monosyllabic expressions of agony . |
| 8 | Quitting after a fracas he had gone to work as a literary agent and had prospered . |
| 9 | No , I think she 's gone to see about a divorce . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ He 's gone to look for a house for us , ’ William would tell Preston on their way home from school . |