Example sentences of "had [verb] back [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to fall back on that many time . |
| 2 | As Dean Acheson had commented back in 1962 , Britain had indeed lost an empire yet failed to find a post-imperial role . |
| 3 | Both their families were pleased about their plans to marry in September , but John had to go back before any details were discussed . |
| 4 | But Dyson 's opinion of him , which had risen noticeably on hearing that he had been at King 's , had fallen back to zero again ; his having been at King 's was cancelled out by his having been right about his instructions to join Dyson 's department . |
| 5 | According to the National Statistics Office , the inflation rate in December rose to 14.1 per cent , the highest rate since Aquino came to power , although by January the rate had fallen back to 13.1 per cent , compared with 12.8 per cent for November 1989 . |
| 6 | Then , of course , the other side was his interest in Child Education , and he had been more or less in the outset of the exciting development which had been going on in Vienna , and had come back with all kinds of ideas . |
| 7 | When at last they lay quietly , her head resting on Luke 's shoulder , her hand spread against the damp warmth of his skin , Fran felt as though she had come back from some great journey that had shifted her conception and understanding of everything . |
| 8 | Right off the bat Dan agreed , detailing this as the one criticism that had come back from American TriAxis users . |
| 9 | Having a parasite is a very special , very intimate experience , as Bill Cater learned when he interviewed scientists and wildlife cameramen who had come back from exotic parts to discover that they 'd acquired various new things to share their lives with . |
| 10 | His dreams had come back after many nights which had seemed as empty as death , dreams of walking between high hedges , it was daylight on the other side of them but gloaming where he was and thick earth rose up to his knees , to his waist , stopping him , he tried to open his mouth but his jaw-bones jammed , he was choking … |
| 11 | It was n't so bad , not after the things Jazzbeaux had seen back in Spanish Fork . |
| 12 | Hippies believed in love and peace , they had said back in 1967 . |
| 13 | Juliet had managed to grab a cup of coffee and a sandwich , but had been reluctant to leave Wendy Target virtually alone on the ward , so she had hurried back after ten minutes . |
| 14 | Hoddle 's anger came after Rovers had pulled back to 4-3 with a goal two minutes from time from a free-kick awarded when goalkeeper Frazer Digby picked up a loose ball . |
| 15 | Almost as soon as 107 Squadron 's aircraft joined up three of them had to turn back with various technical problems , leaving only 12 aircraft in the attack force . |
| 16 | Now that she was coasting again , everything had gone back to normal — what Uncle Albert called the ‘ natural ’ state to be in . |
| 17 | He had gone back to those . |
| 18 | Indeed , the understrength Lithuanians , who had fought back from two down to get their first Group Three point in Belfast , could have inflicted similar embarrassment on the Republic . |
| 19 | Paul Maynard , skipping an all Essex County rink of Andrew Blake , Steve Cooper and Andrew Skilbeck , had fought back from 7–1 and 18–10 down to be two shots ahead . |
| 20 | The way he had fought back from that position showed that the grit demonstrated in all those celluloid heroes was not just acting . |
| 21 | By the end of Elizabeth 's reign its population had risen to 11,500 , and though this was 2,500 less than the total number of inhabitants 200 years earlier , York had climbed back from sixth to third position amongst England 's provincial cities . |
| 22 | By the time we eventually turned to starboard and headed off towards the UK I was most anxious to get home : I was to be the best man at a wedding that day , and I had to get back before high noon , When the dawn really appeared we were lying very sedately over ( and we were not aware of it at the time ) Belgium . |
| 23 | Joel Garner was , in fact , almost at the end had begun back in 1976–7 against Pakistan when he made his debut in the same game as Colin Croft . |