Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [to-vb] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that I searched high and low for a new teacher , and when I found one I had to start from scratch . |
| 2 | Nowhere is it suggested that she had to convert from paganism . |
| 3 | Already qualified , she had to start from scratch . |
| 4 | She had to run from fitzAlan before he damaged her beyond recovery . |
| 5 | Initially we had to start from scratch to find out about drug use and drug users , for we were not even one-eyed kings in this land of the blind ; and we quickly found we were delving into a new and complex social world . |
| 6 | For a lord 's status was directly related to the size of following he could support , and the larger his entourage the more frequently he had to move from estate to estate to feed them . |
| 7 | He had to recite from memory in front of his headmaster fifty Greek lines from the play Medea — a severe punishment , for learning fifty lines of verse in a language imperfectly known would take several hours of spare time . |