Example sentences of "had go [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If Selwyn intends to go to the Colonel 's this afternoon , I could say I had to go that way myself and offer him a lift on the motorbike . ’ |
| 2 | Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home . |
| 3 | but it was it was cos you had you know , you had to go that week kind of thing . |
| 4 | But neither man could entirely ignore North 's fevered memoranda , insisting that without the awful procession of weapons shipments the hostages would die ; and both men , while they were in office , had to go each morning to a president who would ask them what they were doing and importune them to try harder . |
| 5 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 6 | I was glad that I was n't one of those Portuguese or Italians who only had to go three hours without shaving for there to be a blue carpet on their chin . |
| 7 | And then you got You had to go three times a week ? |
| 8 | On one occasion , when the Land Rover was only half a mile away , I had to go three miles to reach it . |
| 9 | Leach , on one occasion had to go full length to save , and also the keeper at the other end too was kept very busy . |
| 10 | erm Right on the last few minutes with five minutes to go erm the erm Steven was again through and Leach had to go full length to save . |
| 11 | We had to go ten years before we got our first increment of 2/6d . |
| 12 | Looking at all package deals today Tenerife , erm eighteen nights , hundred and five or summat but you had to go sixth February . |
| 13 | Before Wednesday 's Coca-Cola defeat at Nottingham Forest , Thorsvedt had gone five games without conceding a goal , and he puts his run down to a new carefree approach to the job which Chelsea will experience today . |
| 14 | Bardely intercepted him before he had gone many yards … |
| 15 | At Eton I had gone each day to Spottiswoode 's bookshop to follow the course of this war in The Times . |
| 16 | Before I had gone fifty yards , I felt a couple of grains of sand strike my left cheek . |
| 17 | The tall grass on the other side of the river was still wet with dew and before they had gone fifty yards all the men were drenched to the waist . |
| 18 | If anyone except the Lorrimores had gone that way and come back again … well … we would have noticed . ’ |
| 19 | She had not told her son to keep away from the course because she had not been aware that he had gone that way . |
| 20 | Now I think what te , what happened there was we er , we drifted away from setting down sc , er , er , scripts to finding good useful key words and phrases out of the paper that we could then fit into the script , and as it had gone that way , I realised it was working , and did n't see any point in trying to get it back to the way it was originally going , because it was going fine . |
| 21 | He said the brothers who had hurt Edouard had turned to culture , they had gone that afternoon to the Chagall museum . ’ |
| 22 | Now Eleanor had gone one step further . |
| 23 | But after spending more than £2,500 on a facelift and suffering a few weeks of looking and feeling like she had gone 12 rounds with Lennox Lewis , Fiona found that few people noticed any difference . |
| 24 | Overall , though , Mr Oswick said he was happy with the way things had gone this Bonfire Night . |
| 25 | His table was set out with batches of proof sheets clipped together , the ashtray was full of stubs , and there was a cup half full of coffee which looked as though it had gone cold hours before . |
| 26 | Her father said she looked as if she had gone three rounds in the boxing ring . |
| 27 | To make it worse , I think Paul had gone three shots ahead , at eight-under as he again played the first nine well . |
| 28 | There was nobody in the park at that time and I walked quickly through the dew , my feet soaked before I had gone ten yards , a trail of sliding tracks behind me on the grass . |
| 29 | But even if Fen had gone ten miles , she swore she would find him . |
| 30 | Last night , Mr Robinson said Mr Brooke 's speech had gone some way to getting dialogue ‘ back on the rails . ’ |