Example sentences of "had [to-vb] back [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As other departments , such as Visual Effects , joined in the unofficial boycott of Doctor Who ( see Chapter Five ) , Verity Lambert , Mervyn Pinfield and their team had to fall back on ingenuity from their Designers and Directors , plus backing from Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson who both maintained great faith in the prospects of the show . |
| 2 | ‘ If I had to drive back to Tangier now , I 'd do it in one go . |
| 3 | They went back down the garden and after that out to a couple of pubs where they drank a lot and Rufus had to drive back to Wyvis Hall with one eye closed on account of getting double vision . |
| 4 | She 'd have been stuck in some noisy complex in Pollensa and then had to drive back to Palma to do his share of the work . |
| 5 | Wycliffe stayed chatting until after midnight and had to drive back in conditions which were , if anything , worse than they had been earlier . |
| 6 | And when I took , I had to report back to area control I was immediate I got immediate applause . |
| 7 | I had n't time , I had to go back to university . |
| 8 | Oh we used to have phosphate and sulphur , potash , coal , granite you name it anything , general cargo we 've had , loaded everything , even dead bodies , we sent , there was one young , one young person , he got drowned up the coast there and they and he had to go back to Holland and they brought that from out the warehouse and put it on the stern of our ship , his coffin , they sent that back and they erm export er pigs to Poland , all live pigs , pedigree pigs . |
| 9 | By the time Maggie had to go back to London they had never felt closer in warmth , even happiness . |
| 10 | and what we doing now is London , London yesterday and you , you should have been at home today but he had to go back to London again so I did n't keep him very much , given up is it ? |
| 11 | And I had to go back to Norwich the next morning with a load . |
| 12 | If he , if he could n't do anything then he would accept it and not do it and then try a bit and if he had to go back to bed . |
| 13 | All had to go back to Felling , in the UK , where relabelling work started over Christmas and continued well into January in a 700 man-hours effort . |
| 14 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
| 15 | All of which brought home the final lesson I had to go back to school to learn . |
| 16 | Anna had arrived a week before the end of term , and so Christine had to go back to school , to her job , leaving Tony ( who had been granted paternity leave ) to cope on his own . |
| 17 | Unfortunately we had to go back to school today . |
| 18 | So regretfully Sven Svennsen had to go back to Sweden . |
| 19 | However , Mary , Jack and Charlie did n't stop but made the excuse that they had to go back to work . |
| 20 | But because of the recession , my husband and I could n't afford to pay our mortgage , so I had to go back to work and I do n't enjoy it at all . |
| 21 | wha , what was gon na happen when they all had to go back to work |
| 22 | We had to go back to Porto to clear Customs back into Spain , and getting decent Met information was proving difficult . |
| 23 | I knew I had to go back to hospital but I just had time to see my mother and sister off and to help my father close up grandmother 's house and to see uncle Henry take her off to the station , with destination Somerset . |
| 24 | A bit of placenta stayed in the womb and when this was discovered I had to go back to hospital for a D & C. From then on my periods became a nightmare . |
| 25 | Freeman withdrew the clause , wrote another one which meant that you had to go back to stage one again . |
| 26 | One of the questions I ask is : ‘ If you had to go back to Winthrop Young 's time , what is the single item of equipment you 'd want to keep ? ’ |
| 27 | Terry had to go back on Sunday night and before he left for the station hugged his mother and looked fearfully into her drawn face . |
| 28 | Hanging over him all the time , however , was the knowledge that he had to go back into hospital for further surgery on his spine . |
| 29 | When we got there it really was a mess but services had come even from West Chelsea and we had to go back in case any of our unexploded bombs went off and we were needed nearer the river . |
| 30 | It 's a bit like that with me , except that instead of going into the technological future I had to go back in time . |