Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] had [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That meant that Macedon had to flirt from time to time with Sparta or whoever looked the strongest counterweight to Athens after Persia had recoiled from the Aegean in the mid-fifth century . |
| 2 | This led the government , in the words of one senior manager , repeatedly to ‘ move the goalposts ’ , in other words to change the criteria that BR had to meet for electrification schemes to be approved . |
| 3 | But an assumption that Ptolemy had to make in order to predict these positions correctly was that the moon followed a path that sometimes brought it twice as close to the earth as at other times . |
| 4 | There were two GIs in charge — the driver and a sentry guard — and Eric had to sit on top of a pile of waterproof mailbags . |
| 5 | Yet while Iago had to start from scratch , foment hatred , poison sight , and invert reality to set his chosen enemies against each other , all that Goneril and Regan have to do to get a third of Britain is to make the kind of noises Lear expects to hear ; indeed , since Cordelia wo n't flatter , they get her part too , and even her coronet as an unlooked-for bonus , Lear 's only ‘ free gift ’ , to use the language of modern advertising promotions ( ‘ This coronet part between you ’ ( King Lear , 1 . |
| 6 | WHILE Terry had to stop at home , brother John soaked up the Spanish sunshine in a luxury holiday home on loan from an old friend . |
| 7 | When Elsie had to retire for health reasons , we were once again without a teacher but Hilda Lodge and Eleanor Pitman helped out and then Joan Gatfield , a leader in training , decided to do some training with us . |