Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] back the " in BNC.
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1 | With that in mind Charity should have firmly handed back the glasses . |
2 | She had emigrated with half her family to England when a baby , but they had all come back the night an auntie 's house in Derry had been seen on TV news , with the sofa flying from an upstairs window and loyalist thugs pouring petrol on the geraniums . |
3 | Eddie had cut away most of his thin nondescript hair , cropping it close to the skull , and she had also cut back the hair on his forehead , giving him a pronounced widow 's peak . |
4 | The October decree had also given back the name Vladikavkaz to North Ossetia 's capital , Ordzhonikidze ( renamed after Stalin 's henchman Sergo Ordzhonikidze ) . |
5 | Hindenburg , who had taken part in the victorious campaigns of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 , was now built up into a father figure : the old general who had again thrown back the invaders of the Fatherland . |