Example sentences of "had [to-vb] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to go from the School to the School for two years and back to the School again , and er finally we 'd go to the Academy . |
| 2 | My mother was dead and my father , due to ill health , had to retire from the university on a small pension . |
| 3 | RODNEY ONTONG , 33 , the former Glamorgan captain , who had to retire from the game after a car crash , is to sue the county for damages in his benefit year . |
| 4 | According to the conventional wisdom , successful presidential candidates had to come from the middle of the political spectrum . |
| 5 | However , the document 's final approval had to come from the Pope himself , a task the Pontiff apparently relished . |
| 6 | The gang also had to purchase from the mine shop their tools , wooden halts and hilts ; gunpowder , fuze , dynamite and caps — candles too . |
| 7 | Treleaven , from Hayling , only got in as a last-minute replacement when Michael Welch , on EGU duty in Spain , crushed his thumb in a door and had to scratch from the Salver and Sunday 's Hampshire Hog at North Hants , where he should have been defending . |
| 8 | But , if that was what he had to expect from the Russian , then that is what he would beware of . |
| 9 | All the Foreign Office ministers , headed by Lord Carrington , had to resign from the government , though Carrington was replaced by the hardly more resolute figure of Pym . |
| 10 | There were personal setbacks , as when her close political confidant , Cecil Parkinson , had to resign from the government in October 1983 after a sex scandal involving his former secretary . |
| 11 | ‘ Suddenly Souness had to start from the bottom and try to build not just from an injury-decimated side , but from one whose senior players were in the most part over 30 and past it . |
| 12 | Although the United States accepted the case for the dollar eventually being convertible into SDRs , in its view this had to result from the dollar being sufficiently competitive to generate enough capital and current account surpluses over a period to make convertibility a reality . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , she had to withdraw from the Symposium , feeling that the effort was too much considering the work that she still required to do on her own Flora . |
| 14 | Watt , who had to withdraw from the loose-head prop berth for last weekend 's Paris international on account of a ‘ viral complaint ’ , has had a series of tests under the care of the SRU 's honorary surgeon , Donald MacLeod , and they will continue when he sees another specialist on Monday . |
| 15 | To advance Japan had to learn from the West and drop at least some of her former respect for China . |