Example sentences of "have [verb] back for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has to go back for it . |
| 2 | Clare Wildish has come back for help feeding her second baby , 3 day old Emma . |
| 3 | Bantam has gone back for nearly 400,000 Maya Angelou paperbacks . |
| 4 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 5 | We 'd gone back for something for them to do something to it , it is the Metropolitan . |
| 6 | ‘ Then why did you have to go back for treatment ? ’ |
| 7 | Or did she have to go back for something . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm forever forgetting my gas mask or identity card and having to go back for them , ’ Anne said . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'll have to come back for it then , ’ he said , laughing . |
| 10 | A top level representative may be able to decide policy without reference to anyone else but others will have to refer back for an opinion on key matters . |
| 11 | I could have gone back for them . ’ |
| 12 | Richard would never have left anything behind anywhere , or , if he had , he would have gone back for it . |
| 13 | Mrs Murphy would be in the kitchen , Barnes would have gone back for his supper . |
| 14 | In the US , buyers will have to hold back for 90 days after the issue because of Securities Exchange Commission restrictions on overseas dealings . |
| 15 | In the US , buyers will have to hold back for 90 days after the issue because of Securities Exchange Commission restrictions on overseas dealings . |
| 16 | If he is consistently having to refer back for support this will not only weaken his standing with the contractor , but it will cause uncertainty and delay to the contract . |
| 17 | At 133 for 2 , England might have fought back for an honourable draw ; or they might not . |
| 18 | It is sad that such talent and thought should create such a nightmarish and harrowing depiction of mental handicap , which left viewers saddened and stunned by what they saw , and may have put back for years the progress towards a real understanding of mental handicap among the general public . |
| 19 | And then I left my brolly at the chemist 's , and had to go back for it … ’ |
| 20 | TCCB , known in the past to have administered punishment for long-past ‘ sins ’ , or at least for the disreputable later exposure of them , will have to decide whether Beefy 's tale of being ‘ extremely inebriated ’ in Perth five years ago , when he forgot his bat and had to go back for it before smashing 48 off Western Australia , is an indictable offence . |
| 21 | The House of Lords allowed the defendant 's appeal with the result that the case had to go back for a retrial eleven years after the plaintiff had suffered damage . |
| 22 | She had to go back for something . |
| 23 | In case they had to come back for anything they 'd forgotten . ’ |
| 24 | I said brazenly , ‘ I 've come back for tea , after all . ’ |
| 25 | The callous incident of the heat sink … but then : hands linked in the Tunnel of Terror … the upper-habber had come back for his two companions , for whatever reason … |
| 26 | Toby had come back for the moment . |
| 27 | Millie would have been fiddling awkwardly with the thick brush of ginger hair coarser than her father 's , and even redder — that sprang away all round her face , while her cello case , which I had carried back for her , was no doubt propped up against one of the crumbling and gateless brick pillars in front of their house , like a portly little old man too out of breath to speak . |
| 28 | ‘ What a charming picture you both make , ’ he said , sinking wearily into the chair Jules had drawn back for him . |
| 29 | Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York . |
| 30 | These copies are staple check and you are the one which you 've gone back for apply erm I , I 'll with that one . |