Example sentences of "had [to-vb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I had to go back to the room , as if I needed to tell the place where I lived of my feeling . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The jackets had to go back to the sweatshop , making for an unnecessary and annoying delay . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's fine , ’ said Comfort , ‘ but he had to go back to the hospital after dinner . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She had to go back to the theatre and see this thing through , for tonight , at least . |
| 12 | After lunch we did a bit more skiing and then we had to go back to the hotel . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | had to go back to the doctor |
| 15 | I , I could feel that I have , I had to go back to the bath to the toilet quite often . |
| 16 | I had to go back into the van to collect my Certificate ( proof ) . |
| 17 | He had to go back in the end because there was no one else to put her to bed , but he hated touching her . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When the tide turned , we all had to struggle back to the large Irrawaddy steamer again . |
| 21 | They did n't have any money either at this point , so to get them out , I had to slip back into the States without anybody knowing and sell off everything we owned — all the furniture and household stuff . |
| 22 | The green man was flashing and we were crossing it and it just li I had to jump back onto the pavement ! |
| 23 | We had to stand back from the edge of the pavement as their wheels splashed along the teeming gutters . |
| 24 | And we went to one temple and it got dark whilst we were there , it was called the Monkey Temple , and it 's just so many monkeys around , and they just are allowed to run wild , but by the time we got back to our bikes it was dark and we had to cycle back in the dark without any lights on these unlit , unmade roads and that was quite frightening really . |
| 25 | ‘ The poor bastard was thrown by his horse and had to walk back to the village . |
| 26 | So she had to ride back on the she rode back on the |
| 27 | He had to run back in the dark and make safe the Lewes bomb . |
| 28 | Crocker had to fly back to the USA the following day , so there was limited time to convert John Allison with the airshow being held the following day . |
| 29 | ‘ The DI 's compliments , sir , but he had to get back to the station . |
| 30 | We then had to get back to the car , and after a detour that took in just about all of the countryside , we arrive back at the airport for the flight home . |