Example sentences of "had [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daak had jumped back into the cabin . |
| 2 | He had a high-rolling joint on the SS Nocturne , a ship anchored outside the limits , and some nasty rumours had floated back on the tides along with a well-dressed corpse or two . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I had to go back to the room , as if I needed to tell the place where I lived of my feeling . |
| 5 | Resuming at the short fourth hole , he promptly took a double bogey five , leaving a bunker shot in the sand , and then following it with a six at the fifth , where he hooked into some bushes and had to go back to the tee . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Then she had to go back to the shop to get our fish and chips , so we bundled up the rest of the wood and , as it was dark , ventured out to see if Dad could find some customers for his new business . |
| 8 | This meant he had to go back to the county party and ask to be put back on their panel of candidates , a request which was turned down on Saturday . |
| 9 | The jackets had to go back to the sweatshop , making for an unnecessary and annoying delay . |
| 10 | Galerie de la Scala fared so well with a mixture of French , North European and Italian drawings , priced at FFr 20,000–350,000 , not always by famous names but always in exquisite taste , that they had to go back to the gallery for more . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's fine , ’ said Comfort , ‘ but he had to go back to the hospital after dinner . |
| 12 | So I thanked Mr. Lennis for his frankness , explained that I had to go back to the bank to deal with some work , and departed . |
| 13 | She had to go back to the theatre and see this thing through , for tonight , at least . |
| 14 | After lunch we did a bit more skiing and then we had to go back to the hotel . |
| 15 | It 's hardly worth drawing the cheques in certain cases and the capital programme , could n't see it actually when I looked for it first time , had to go back to the pink sheet and found the noughts , now we 're not as generous as we 'd like to be , but at least we try . |
| 16 | had to go back to the doctor |
| 17 | I , I could feel that I have , I had to go back to the bath to the toilet quite often . |
| 18 | I had to go back into the van to collect my Certificate ( proof ) . |
| 19 | He had to go back in the end because there was no one else to put her to bed , but he hated touching her . ’ |
| 20 | She remembered how she had n't been allowed to hold him for more than a moment before he had to go back behind the bars of his crib . |
| 21 | Elvis had travelled back to the dawn of mankind and persuaded God to let him do it his way . |
| 22 | Fergus had fallen back across the table and Taliesin and Fribble both moved to stand between him and the Lad . |
| 23 | The Gold Coast had fallen back from the situation 50 years earlier when English-educated Africans had played a leading part in administration , Christian leadership , the judiciary and the learned professions . |
| 24 | The US dollar , which had peaked at US$1.00=DM1.85 during May and June 1991 from a February trough of 1.44 , had fallen back by the end of November to below 1.6 , as early hopes of a rapid recovery in US consumer spending faded , and as unfavourable indicators in the employment market coincided with news of a disappointing trade balance in September . |
| 25 | So he placed an order with him for all these , and he had to come back to the factory , reorganize the factory , to meet this terrific order he 'd got for pencils , you see . |
| 26 | Bertha had sat back with the satisfied air of having played a trump card , until suddenly her lip had quivered as tears filled her eyes . |
| 27 | Toby had come back for the moment . |
| 28 | The woman had come back to the farm 's archway from where she and two men stared nervously up the road towards Frasnes . |
| 29 | After wartime service in the RAF he had come back to the School , and with his friends Mr. Norris and Mr. Hardie had helped to introduce Rugby to the School . |
| 30 | It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field . |