Example sentences of "have [to-vb] back the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last year , charity shops have had to cut back the number of toys they sell drastically because of new legislation . |
| 2 | You 'll have to peel back the carpet . |
| 3 | This does not mean that the applicant can not let the house , but if she sells it , or simply uses it as a second home , she may have to pay back the whole or part of the grant with interest . |
| 4 | ‘ The prison staff said that was OK but said they would have to tie back the cell doors . |
| 5 | But can you see the people who came to the stepping stones and could n't go across and had to go back the way they 'd already come would n't go back with a very their ego would n't have b been boosted very high . |
| 6 | She had to go back the way she had come . |
| 7 | She did n't point out that they had to go back the way they had come , and when he reached into the back and handed her a water container she drank gladly . |
| 8 | When the copyists sold the originals to Wildenstein 's for $665,000 and decamped with the proceeds , Wallis got to hear of it and had to buy back the pictures . |
| 9 | RECOVERY teams had to fight back the tears yesterday — after a lorry carrying thousands of pickling onions overturned near Wootton , Oxon . |
| 10 | She bit — savagely at her cuticles again , and McLeish had to fight back the urge to yell at her to stop , for God 's sake . |
| 11 | A rat suddenly darted out from a hole in the side of the drum and she had to bite back the scream that rose in her throat . |
| 12 | Because peasants had to pay back the sums of money which the government advanced on their behalf at 6 per cent interest over forty-nine years , it was to be a long time before their freedom was complete . |
| 13 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a double-action revolver , which means you have to pull back the hammer to cock it before firing . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If we have to give back the kettles and toasters , we 'll have nothing left . ’ |