Example sentences of "had go [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I had to go for a piss . |
| 3 | I had to go for a piss , so I did n't watch him for very long . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Elaine said she had to go for a blood test . |
| 6 | That 's right they had to go on a rota . |
| 7 | In the morning I explained to Diana and Mary that I had to go on a journey , and would be away for several days . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | She had to go on a bus actually . |
| 10 | As a student on Imperial College 's petroleum geology MSc course , Mujadid had to go on a number of field trips during his year in the UK , but had not been able to buy suitable clothes for the British climate back home in Karachi . |
| 11 | Her new liver took straight away but she had to go on a ventilator because she was having problems with her lungs . ’ |
| 12 | Thus there could be no economies of scale in case a sleeve cut from one lay of medium blue had to go with a dress cut from another lay of so-called medium blue . |
| 13 | No , the two pro , the thing that the two prongs sit in is cracked so naturally say it had to go into a hole that size , right ? |
| 14 | A little while after that my Mum went to live with my sister and her family , so I had to go into a bedsit . |
| 15 | He said he did n't want to see my baby , and that I had to go into a home for unmarried mothers . |
| 16 | The matron also told us that this patient had to go into a nursing home ‘ towards the end ’ because ‘ she needed morphine injections which the doctor would n't give otherwise she would n't have had to move to somewhere strange . |
| 17 | yeah no , what happen was the alarm went off in their block or something and they all had to go into a room , I do n't know |
| 18 | To bring him up to the required standard he had to go to a boarding preparatory school , which he loathed so much he escaped over the wall and hitchhiked home . |
| 19 | It would of just , it would have been , if he had n't been that he , you know that he had to go to a school in Northumberland , he was just as near |
| 20 | Aszal refused to leave her until , he says , at 1 a.m. they were told that she had to go to a detention centre where men were not allowed . |
| 21 | You had to go to a modelling school where you learnt how to get in and out of cars with your legs just so , so that nobody could see your knickers . |
| 22 | On Monday 27 February Fleischmann and Pons were due to bring their working cell to Brigham Young University for the neutron spectrum to be measured , but a graduate student had to go to a funeral and so they suggested it would be better to come at the end of the week instead . |
| 23 | Well Dorothy had to go to a prison in erm Clackmannan for her |
| 24 | And er we were quite fortunate in this cos I went , had to go to a meeting in Sheffield and I had n't realized in advance but at this meeting the people at the meeting were asked to give recommendations as to what priorities should be given in terms of awarding the bids . |
| 25 | Erm I had to go to a table like that which said square roots and I had to look up twenty |
| 26 | had to go to a breakdown , the poor bloke did n't know whether he was coming or going so one of these situations that stress stress arrives . |
| 27 | Later , Clive had to go to a club and watch the Sergeant Major and some of his army mates . |
| 28 | They had to go through a lot of blocks . |
| 29 | Andrew said : ‘ Everybody had to go through a medical before the show and if they were not up to it , they did not go in — we had to be very careful because of their health and safety . ’ |
| 30 | Well she go Hilda got a baby boy about eighteen month old when I knew her like you know , and er she lived by I think it was I think it was you know and er what happened to her I be I think she had to go in a home or er you see and er baby boy was adopted like , the baby boy that 's about all I know about her that 's about all . |