Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has won me back to him . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not saying you are n't still quite attractive , but you must be creeping into your early thirties , so what you need is security — and that is what has brought you back to Silas . |
| 3 | For the Prince , it was the beginning of a love affair , one that has taken him back to Italy on many occasions . |
| 4 | Promotion at Maidstone was never to be his ; instead they 'd sent him back to Ramsgate , scene of his early success in capturing the notorious smuggler Rum-Bubber Bill . |
| 5 | What I was wondering was when you said that the dock stopped the money for payment for damages , they 'd paid it back to you . |
| 6 | ‘ I wish to God now I 'd lugged him back to his chain gang by the ear . |
| 7 | You do n't have to sell them back to him |
| 8 | She 'd have had him back to the manufacturers for radical restructuring . |
| 9 | doll I 'm afraid I 'd have to give it back to them . |
| 10 | Then the king 's son was so sorry for what he had done that he would willingly have died too , if it would have brought her back to life . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They must have brought him back to tea with the grown-ups who would come later . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ He could have followed you back to her house , could n't he ? ’ |
| 15 | The word ‘ humanity ’ borrowed some of its force from the 1959 approach , but the rest of the definition would have taken us back to a test of manners based on an assumption of consensus which is at worst suspect and at best unproven , but which is to be measured only by outrage , surely an irrational and wholly subjective response . |
| 16 | Michele met her startled glance and explained calmly , ‘ I wanted to make love to you , and I did n't fancy the idea of having to take you back to your own room in the middle of the night to save Rosa 's tender susceptibilities . ’ |
| 17 | On one occasion she even invited me to her home in Chelsea , but I did n't accept as I knew if I did I would only have to ask her back to my place in Whitechapel . |
| 18 | ‘ Get up and behave yourself or Marie will have to take you back to the nursery , ’ their father ordered . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I wondered if the third soldier had made it back to his own lines . |
| 21 | So I could n't I could n't charge him twenty cos he 'd only charged me he 'd only charged me twenty so I had to sell him back to him for a tenner you know . |
| 22 | You had to sell it back to the council . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It loses impact does n't it because a the power of the voice is hit against there , b it 's very rude to talk while I 've got me back to you as well so people yes lose interest . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Their mutual interest had transcended the age difference , and he had invited her back to his island home on Grand Cayman . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It had dragged him back to the stairwell , had gutted and fed from him to regain its strength . |