Example sentences of "had go [prep] [art] [adj] " 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 Nothing else was right , you had to go for the best in life , and I suppose we 've always felt that . ’
3 We had to go on the Green Line bus . ’
4 Sometimes Sweetheart had to go into the back room to buy something special .
5 Then I had to go into the Royal Marsden .
6 Say you had to go to a dental appointment .
7 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 .
8 Because the bus had no radio or mobile telephone the civilian driver had to go to a nearby farmhouse to call the police .
9 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 .
10 It stipulated that at least 60 per cent of lending had to go to the private sector , and no more than 40 per cent to infrastructure projects .
11 But the distribution rules said shares or discounts had to go to the first named .
12 Carlie had to go to the foster home because she could n't get along with her stepfather .
13 We always had to go to the big men on our knees and touch our forelocks and say ‘ Please can we do so and so … ? ’
14 They said me and him had to go to the social security the next morning , and if he did n't he 'd be picked up .
15 From there things had grown even worse , and now she felt a sensation of panic if she even had to go to the local shops , in case she encountered a sparrow or two pecking at some crumbs in her path .
16 I had to go to the next yard to fetch Jonesy .
17 All proposals had to go through a protective sieve , an inner filtration to correspond to the standard he sets for his work .
18 All proposals had to go through a protective sieve , an inner filtration to correspond to the standard he sets for his work .
19 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 .
20 Having driven past in the usual manner , the driver then had to go through a second time in reverse so that the mourners on the other side could also take a look .
21 They had to go through a long interrogation , and their answers were not found to be satisfactory .
22 Speaking from a personal experience , I had to go through a similar kind of programme after years of cocaine abuse .
23 The annual report of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration criticised the system whereby claimants had to go through a cumbersome late appeals procedure to obtain the full arrears benefit to which they were rightfully entitled where those exceeded the statutory 12-month limit .
24 So we had to go through a whole charade of auditioning a second guitarist .
25 But one morning I came to play and I found that my clubs were not there ( they had been stolen ) I then had to go through the long task of making a claim to the insurance company to try and claim some money to replace the clubs I had lost .
26 In fact , you had to go through the humiliating procedure of explaining to everyone that it was indeed a public school .
27 I find found that absolutely incredible and I thought it was bizarre to say the least , the procedure we had to go through the other er evening erm with two hours of acrimonious debate er a break while you consulted er the officers before we got to some er sensible way forward which is now incorporated in this amendment er to spend a hundred thousand pounds on actually trying to trace .
28 Indeed , it was March that year before I managed to obtain a false set , which meant I had to go through the entire winter without a tooth in the top of my mouth .
29 Not only was the company interested exclusively in cheap pictures for the local market , but also Dean had to go through the ignominious process of securing cast approval on his pictures from Solly Newman , the head of the company 's UK subsidiary , whom he regarded as both ‘ illiterate ’ and ‘ over-shrewd where money was concerned . ’
30 It was Charlie 's worst nightmare , he had to go through the public humiliation of denying he had a drink problem and retreated from the court saying , ‘ I 've been found guilty so there 's nothing anyone can do .
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