Example sentences of "have [to-vb] back [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says he 's feeling better but he has to go back to the hospice . |
| 2 | The twentieth-century preference for ‘ the colloquial ’ in poetry may well be a temporary phenomenon ; Donald Davie 's Purity of Diction in English Verse ( 1952 ) , together with his admiration for the late Augustans , represent one attempt to revive an interest in the use of a ‘ civilized ’ diction ; it is interesting that he has to go back to the age before Wordsworth . |
| 3 | For comparison , one really has to go back to the Renaissance , to someone like Giovanni Bellini , who travelled an enormous territory ; even to Giotto , the artist who Matisse said was the peak of his aspiration . |
| 4 | In the meantime he has to go back to the town on further business , but first his horse needs shoeing , his cart needs repairing and he needs food and shelter . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 6 | He is n't allowed to play football and has to go back to the hospital for treatment . |
| 7 | One only has to see Back to the Future to realize what problems could arise . |
| 8 | Do n't put yourself in a situation where the treasurer has to come back to the committee to argue over every last penny . |
| 9 | If we fell off the rope we would have had to go back to the start . |
| 10 | By eschewing the obvious solution of a differential dividend payment , the group has had to fall back on the option of endowing the chemicals company with additional cash by way of a rights issue from Zeneca . |
| 11 | She would have to go back to the hotel , or find another just as bad , and resume the soul-destroying trudge from one unsuitable rabbit-hutch to another . |
| 12 | You 'll have to go back to the nursery . |
| 13 | He might have to go back to the road and start again . |
| 14 | This also enables any eventual profit to be kept in the long term , avoiding the problem that if it is retained , any eventual surplus would have to go back to the borrower . |
| 15 | " I may have to go back to the bank for an hour or so — there 'll be all sorts of things piling up on my desk . |
| 16 | I 'll have to go back to the shop , and check up on them , as I said , hut I imagine you wo n't grudge me a glass of brandy first . " |
| 17 | The reforms could also mean that the most experienced specialist officers , such as police divers , would have to go back on the beat . |
| 18 | I 'll have to go back in the house because I 've got two odd gloves on . |
| 19 | Or do you have to report back to the boss ? ’ |
| 20 | I do n't think so no , but you know I mean , for six months if Christopher 's living here and having to go back at the weekend , for six months he gets an allowance |
| 21 | One good way of judging a well-planned interview schedule of the formal type is to ask ‘ Could this schedule be handed over to someone else for analysis without them having to go back to the interviewer to ask what certain answers mean ? ’ |
| 22 | If they say we 've got to pay it , well then I 'll have to come back at the council meeting . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll have to come back in the summer without the boots to play properly ! ’ |
| 24 | It looks as if we might have to pull back behind the Crozat Canal and hold St Simon . |
| 25 | She would have to walk back in the afternoon sunshine , or find somewhere to rest . |
| 26 | I am known as Sideways Reynolds and I might have to cut back on the speed on the corners . |
| 27 | It 's been a very big step to use pressure flow studies at all , and now that we 're used to using pressure flow studies , we 're going to have to go back to the drawing board and perhaps learn to use a different kind of technology that 's ambulatory , that allows us |
| 28 | Had to go back to the school — had to sit amongst the probationers , and then after the school , he was posted right from one side of the city to the other . |
| 29 | Then again for reasons of established cultural preference we had to go back to the Audit Commission and ask them to translate £6.358 million into ‘ real men ’ , for we had difficulty in trying to sell such an alien concept to the police mind . |
| 30 | She had to go back to the theatre and see this thing through , for tonight , at least . |