Example sentences of "had [verb] to [noun sg] from " in BNC.

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1 His celebration after Ronnie Whelan had scored a simple equaliser was the perfect demonstration of how close his Liverpool team had come to elimination from the FA Cup .
2 On this occasion Cooke led a delegation to see O'Neill who had responded to pressure from a Unionist MP , Austin Ardill , to meet the men .
3 The government had failed to approach economic reform comprehensively , and , lacking sufficient support from the CPSU politburo , had bowed to pressure from " various industries and the old managerial structures which sought to keep their position and maintain the command methods of administration " .
4 On Oct. 29 , however , Kim declared that he would not enter the contest , leading to speculation that he had bowed to pressure from Roh , whose administration had worked closely with Daewoo and who was known to be concerned that Kim 's intervention could split the conservative vote and thereby allow Kim Dae Jung to win the election .
5 One student , who had transferred to physics from medicine , explained the difference between chemistry and physics :
6 She also had to bow to pressure from colleagues and permit Cabinet discussion of economic strategy in 1982 and to abandon Cabinet discussion in September 1982 of the paper from the Central Policy Review staff about the implications of the rising trend of public expenditure and its proposals for curbing welfare spending ( see above p. 213 ) .
7 Of course he was n't always there because frequently there were notes from his mother to say that he had earache or something , but later on I realized , of course , that those notes had been faked , the same as the notes that I had sent to school from my mother several generations before that .
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