Example sentences of "had [vb pp] him back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had expected him back before now . |
| 2 | He had been a young man when she had met him back in 1898 . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm going to the bathroom , ’ said Philip , putting the stupid lamp that his Mum had bought him back on the window-sill . |
| 4 | When at last Hazel had got him back to the ditch , he refused at first to go underground and Hazel had almost to push him down the hole . |
| 5 | Harry was able to fit in only two further meetings with Alice — one when she had taken him to see the very impressive new branch of the Maison Verveine , and the other when she had invited him back to the flat to meet Jules . |
| 6 | It had dragged him back to the stairwell , had gutted and fed from him to regain its strength . |
| 7 | When Biddy had driven him back into town she spent an hour with the others . |
| 8 | But Chris — Chris had brought him back to life . |
| 9 | He had been beaten by soldiers , he said , who had taken him back to his home and stolen the money he had hidden there . |
| 10 | It was the boy he had met when Georgiades had taken him back to the Place of the Dead ; Ali , Yussuf 's nephew . |
| 11 | He had been pathetically shy and awkward , and one particularly painful experience had sent him back to his lonely flat with the firm belief that he would die a bachelor . |
| 12 | Ivan had held him back from the bedroom by force . |