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Example sentences of "had go [adv prt] for " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	By the time I got into position , my lungs were bursting and I had to go up for air again .
2	It had to go on for ever .
3	‘ She had to go out for a moment . ’
4	And then I left my brolly at the chemist 's , and had to go back for it … ’
5	TCCB , known in the past to have administered punishment for long-past ‘ sins ’ , or at least for the disreputable later exposure of them , will have to decide whether Beefy 's tale of being ‘ extremely inebriated ’ in Perth five years ago , when he forgot his bat and had to go back for it before smashing 48 off Western Australia , is an indictable offence .
6	The House of Lords allowed the defendant 's appeal with the result that the case had to go back for a retrial eleven years after the plaintiff had suffered damage .
7	She had to go back for something .
8	Was there ever a time when you had to go in for more drastic measures ?
9	And then , at half past eight , we used to have to get everything ready for breakfast and have it all ready ; and then we had to go in for prayers .
10	She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it .
11	And then he got so bad , that he had to go in for .
12	Seven cases in the sample ( 14 per cent ) had gone on for four years or longer .
13	COLBERT : It had gone on for too long : this is his ninth year on the Tour .
14	I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week .
15	‘ I felt that if the game had gone on for just five more minutes , then we could even have won it .
16	Det Insp Jeff Crowther said : ‘ This incident could have been worse if it had gone on for any length of time . ’
17	They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey .
18	All over the room a search had gone on for what the scientists called ‘ forensic residues ’ .
19	And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man .
20	I would have been quite happy if he had gone on for longer .
21	It had gone on for some time , she could n't say how long .
22	with , with , with it , with it before I actually got involved after negotiations had gone through for the remo for the moving of the tenants .
23	Brian Guthrie interviewed Mary , Mavin Shulver ( who had gone along for support ) and some Class members , and the Broadcast went out over the air on the following Saturday .
24	England then collapsed in wonderfully spectacular fashion ; Rose made 41 , but until Willis joined Willey everyone else had failed dismally and nine wickets had gone down for 92 .
25	They put on 24 after the previous six wickets had gone down for 40 .
26	I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day .
27	And black dancers had gone in for contemporary or modern dance because they had felt ballet to be a white art form to be watched by white people . ’
28	The driver of the van had been wanted for questioning , and the way CI5 had gone in for the arrest had clearly been the direct cause of the van 's destruction on the hot end of the booby-trap bomb it had been carrying .
29	Where once dockers and carmen had gone in for breakfast or a midday meal they now sat around drinking mugs of tea and eating slices of toast and dripping .
30	Would n't have minded if the driver had gone in for some stronger magic — the old Christianity did n't seem to be having much effect on his driving .