Example sentences of "have [verb] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the reader has to go back to the previous stretch of discourse to establish what This refers to . |
| 2 | If the patient can not use the lexical procedure to read , say , pint , and so has to fall back upon the non-lexical procedure , a reading error will result : pint will be read with a short i ( as in mint ) . |
| 3 | In the 5 years with Maxwell junior at the helm , the club has dropped back into the second division and shows debts of up to £4.5 million . |
| 4 | Thank you very much I think er councillor said that in er Tory erm motions goes against er Conservative er national policy but what it does identify is a very worrying sub text to the Tory policies of the moment because w means testing for hou for housing welfare has gone back to the worst aspects of the nineteen thirties politics basically . |
| 5 | He liked his porter , but if he 'd gone back to the stable … |
| 6 | He 'd begun back in the fifties as a prison officer . |
| 7 | Unless you take a different view , our own preference would be to pursue the question of a travelling display as actively as we can , recognising , however , that if it does not prove feasible for reasons of finance and other resources to mount such a display in the foreseeable future we may have to fall back on the reduced-size Barrel Vault display . |
| 8 | Thus , we would have to fall back on the anthropic principle to explain why the electron has the mass and charge that it does . |
| 9 | The privatization bill will probably have to go back to the upper house , whatever happens in the Commons . |
| 10 | Soon there will be nothing left to know and I shall have to go back to the Annual Assessment . |
| 11 | ‘ Could n't we have a second chair ? ’ ventured John Gould , inciting the first major row : ‘ We 'll have to re-think the whole thing ’ says James ‘ we 'll have to go back to the very beginning and re-block it ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We wanted to play Dublin but all the venues were booked out months ago , so we 'll have to come back in the New Year and do somewhere like the SFX or the Stadium . |
| 13 | This had several squares of very heavy , dark grey woollen cloth which Mum told me came from her own great grandmother 's cloak , so presumably could well have dated back to the eighteenth century . |
| 14 | Had it not been for another round of cost cutting , the group would have crept back into the black last year . |
| 15 | Any sign of browning or other discolouration could be the onset of die-back , and if this is confirmed , you may be able to trim it away , but if it goes back below the node , you will have to prune back to the next growth bud irrespective of its direction . |
| 16 | ‘ Miers could not take the German prisoners on board his sub , and if he had left them to paddle ashore they would immediately have gone back into the German forces … |
| 17 | He also appears to be physically generating a new language , having gone back to the simplest animal and natural cries . |
| 18 | I was not sure that I had been baptized ( having shrunk back from the outstretched hand with water in my late teens , believing baptism a piece of medieval nonsense ) , while wanting to be a member of the church . |
| 19 | By that time , the footballers of Halifax Town may have climbed back into the big league . |
| 20 | I believe that it will be updated as the new computer takes on additional information , but when and at exactly what point is a matter on which I shall have to get back to the hon. Gentleman because I do not know ACPO 's plans . |
| 21 | Whilst the Conservative government was delighted to have sold back to the private sector one of its most difficult privatisation candidates , the impact of recent changes in the car industry have yet to be fully assessed . |
| 22 | It 's hardly worth drawing the cheques in certain cases and the capital programme , could n't see it actually when I looked for it first time , had to go back to the pink sheet and found the noughts , now we 're not as generous as we 'd like to be , but at least we try . |
| 23 | Bertha had sat back with the satisfied air of having played a trump card , until suddenly her lip had quivered as tears filled her eyes . |
| 24 | The devilish smile , oblique and sharp as a scar , had come back to the gaunt face . |
| 25 | ‘ To us , he had come back from the dead , ’ his mother , Camilla Swann , said yesterday . |
| 26 | When Cardiff had come back from the dead , he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer . |
| 27 | We had come back like the full circle of our route , intact . |
| 28 | When the tide turned , we all had to struggle back to the large Irrawaddy steamer again . |
| 29 | The dark green sun umbrella above them threw shadows across Guy 's face , but she realised that the teasing gleam had crept back into the narrowed gaze . |
| 30 | Shiona had smiled back at the fair-haired youth who had so recently become her brother . |