Example sentences of "had [to-vb] back [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | And when I took , I had to report back to area control I was immediate I got immediate applause . |
| 3 | I had n't time , I had to go back to university . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | All of which brought home the final lesson I had to go back to school to learn . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Unfortunately we had to go back to school today . |
| 8 | However , Mary , Jack and Charlie did n't stop but made the excuse that they had to go back to work . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | wha , what was gon na happen when they all had to go back to work |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Freeman withdrew the clause , wrote another one which meant that you had to go back to stage one again . |
| 14 | Hanging over him all the time , however , was the knowledge that he had to go back into hospital for further surgery on his spine . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It 's a bit like that with me , except that instead of going into the technological future I had to go back in time . |
| 17 | Before we had we bought a house and so I really had to come back to work because we needed my wages and erm the creche was just being brought out so I knew there was a chance of coming back . |