Example sentences of "we had [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But November 1989 it was , so we had to hold back and then ‘ go for it ’ very late in the day to launch the hotel . |
| 2 | We had to turn back . |
| 3 | ‘ We had to turn back , ’ Anna said gaily . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Now we had to go back … the children have to live , what were we to do ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We had to go back to Porto to clear Customs back into Spain , and getting decent Met information was proving difficult . |
| 8 | And we had to go back , you see ? |
| 9 | After lunch we did a bit more skiing and then we had to go back to the hotel . |
| 10 | Unfortunately we had to go back to school today . |
| 11 | had got back we had to go back again , er Monday he had his operation so we did n't go in afternoon we went over the Metro Centre , but I could n't settle , so we come back |
| 12 | So we had to go back and swap it for seven to eight |
| 13 | Yes , we had stumbled back in time all right , to those days of portion control when catering managers were gods , working miracles of loaves and fishes on ever smaller plates filled with dry greenery and tomatoes cut like starfish . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | On the far side of it stood a village of longhouses , much like the ones we had left back on the coast , except that these were entered by round doors instead of the normal rectangular ones . |
| 16 | We had to get back to Crinan by nightfall , over 30 miles away to the North , and time was running out . |
| 17 | He forgot we had to travel back ! |
| 18 | We had driven back to the village and had just turned off the road on to the In Salah track . |
| 19 | We , we had to walk back and then and then before and then |
| 20 | But the tail of the Mary Alice looked as though it might break off completely any minute and was causing such a drag that we had to fly back on our own . |
| 21 | We had come back like the full circle of our route , intact . |
| 22 | Well I had another I was in the er I got some much leave you know , then we had to come back to er at back of the er where it er . |
| 23 | And we had to come back together because a guest had twisted her ankle and it needed bandaging . ’ |
| 24 | Yes oh yes another about another six years probably but we had to come back to educate the kids . |
| 25 | Anyway , when he , when he came back again we had to come back cos see we had another delivery of gravel and we ordered three yards and we reckon that on the last journey we bought two yards , we 've got over a yard too much gravel ! |
| 26 | We had to stand back from the edge of the pavement as their wheels splashed along the teeming gutters . |