Example sentences of "have [verb] [pers pn] back to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd have had him back to the manufacturers for radical restructuring . |
| 2 | There could only be one reason why Ross — always such a proud and unforgiving man — would have broken his own self-imposed exile and contacted her ; only one reason why he would have brought her back to the quiet privacy of her own apartment . |
| 3 | He would have escorted her back to the Old Rectory and then , a minor social obligation performed , turned with relief to walk alone to the abbey , drawing his solitude around him like a cloak . |
| 4 | ‘ Get up and behave yourself or Marie will have to take you back to the nursery , ’ their father ordered . |
| 5 | Like Croydon , Penge U.D.C. had the right to purchase its tramways in each seventh year on granting six months ' notice , but if it did , it had to lease them back to the Company . |
| 6 | You had to sell it back to the council . |
| 7 | Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first . |
| 8 | Erm I I I did this morning but I 've handed it back to the District Council access to their newt report , which was referred to a couple of days ago . |
| 9 | When at last Hazel had got him back to the ditch , he refused at first to go underground and Hazel had almost to push him down the hole . |
| 10 | It was the thought of her that had drawn me back to the Lodge with my dream , and if this odd enterprise had any meaning at all it must lie , I believed , somewhere between the three of us . |
| 11 | Harry was able to fit in only two further meetings with Alice — one when she had taken him to see the very impressive new branch of the Maison Verveine , and the other when she had invited him back to the flat to meet Jules . |
| 12 | It had dragged him back to the stairwell , had gutted and fed from him to regain its strength . |
| 13 | He had followed her back to the car . |
| 14 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 15 | They had visited the fifteenth-century pavilion , which had taken them back to the world of 1492 and immersed them in an era that led up to the discovery of America . |
| 16 | It was the boy he had met when Georgiades had taken him back to the Place of the Dead ; Ali , Yussuf 's nephew . |
| 17 | I had to take them back to the shop , and try another chemist . |
| 18 | He was in such a state that I literally had to drag him back to the main road . |
| 19 | They said , ‘ Well , nobody will notice her if she 's got her back to the audience , ’ but all the audience wanted to know was ‘ Why has that girl got her back to the audience , is she hideously scarred ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Your mam 's invited me back to the house . ’ |
| 21 | Mum when you have to give it back to the man ? |