Example sentences of "have [to-vb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is n't allowed to play football and has to go back to the hospital for treatment . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | the reader has to go back to the previous stretch of discourse to establish what This refers to . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He says he 's feeling better but he has to go back to the hospice . |
| 8 | Both were successful in their task , Phyllisia no longer has to go back to the West Indies and Celie was reunited with all her family . |
| 9 | One only has to see Back to the Future to realize what problems could arise . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Do n't put yourself in a situation where the treasurer has to come back to the committee to argue over every last penny . |
| 12 | If we fell off the rope we would have had to go back to the start . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Thus , we would have to fall back on the anthropic principle to explain why the electron has the mass and charge that it does . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We 'll have to go back into the bushes , then take the tradesman 's path . ’ |
| 17 | He might have to go back to the road and start again . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 'll , I 'll be going to the village hall but I might have to go back to the Cross Keys , that 's why I put Roger , perhaps I put the wrong thing on you see ? |
| 20 | " 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . " |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose , ’ she ventured as they neared Water Gypsy , ‘ you 'll have to go back to the beechwoods this morning . |
| 25 | Soon there will be nothing left to know and I shall have to go back to the Annual Assessment . |
| 26 | The privatization bill will probably have to go back to the upper house , whatever happens in the Commons . |
| 27 | You 'll have to go back to the nursery . |
| 28 | The reforms could also mean that the most experienced specialist officers , such as police divers , would have to go back on the beat . |
| 29 | She 's go , she 'll have to go back behind the scenes and chat the other two up . |
| 30 | I 'll have to go back in the house because I 've got two odd gloves on . |