Example sentences of "[noun] had [to-vb] from [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 | FRANK FREEMAN had to start from scratch . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Such a strategy had to begin from recognition that |
| 5 | In the present study none of the patients had to withdraw from therapy because of side effects , irrespective of the length of treatment . |
| 6 | Up in the short-term car-park at Terminal Two , Lewis had to drive from floor to floor before he found a slot in which to put the car . |
| 7 | It would be hard to see how communication could take place if we could not take some sort of mutually shared knowledge for granted , if every discourse had to begin from scratch . |