Example sentences of "i have [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 2 | Before I had turned back from Bilen I had watched the Awash flowing towards its unknown destination . |
| 3 | I had to fall back on that many time . |
| 4 | And when I took , I had to report back to area control I was immediate I got immediate applause . |
| 5 | ‘ If I had to drive back to Tangier now , I 'd do it in one go . |
| 6 | I felt I had stepped back into a thirties ' film and that in the morning , when we went down into the bar for café au lait , Arletty and Jean Gabin would be leaning on the zinc counter . |
| 7 | I felt that I had stepped back in time to share in the 400 year old ceremony in this charming village . |
| 8 | I had to go back to the room , as if I needed to tell the place where I lived of my feeling . |
| 9 | All of which brought home the final lesson I had to go back to school to learn . |
| 10 | I knew I had to go back to hospital but I just had time to see my mother and sister off and to help my father close up grandmother 's house and to see uncle Henry take her off to the station , with destination Somerset . |
| 11 | I had n't time , I had to go back to university . |
| 12 | A bit of placenta stayed in the womb and when this was discovered I had to go back to hospital for a D & C. From then on my periods became a nightmare . |
| 13 | As I had to go back to my office after a big luncheon party , I arrived half way through the collection . |
| 14 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
| 15 | And I had to go back to Norwich the next morning with a load . |
| 16 | But because of the recession , my husband and I could n't afford to pay our mortgage , so I had to go back to work and I do n't enjoy it at all . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I , I could feel that I have , I had to go back to the bath to the toilet quite often . |
| 19 | I had to go back into the van to collect my Certificate ( proof ) . |
| 20 | It 's a bit like that with me , except that instead of going into the technological future I had to go back in time . |
| 21 | So I had to stay back in er in Stapleford , the Stapleford Home Guard . |
| 22 | For some time I had wanted to move further from London with its many social distractions , and now with the half million words of notes I had brought back with me from my world tour waiting to be distilled into a book , I felt the need more than ever . |
| 23 | To get experience in obstetrics and gynaecology for vocational training I had to come back to London . |
| 24 | I had to come back to a degree agreeing with them . |
| 25 | Daisy was about to say ‘ by women ’ , but hastily changed it to ‘ by members of the congregation as I was leaving , and I had to get back for Ethel 's heart . ’ |
| 26 | I felt numb but I had to get back to his stable three miles away and tie him up . |
| 27 | Did not get the job — dear , former [ xx ] Manager , drove me up there ( 6 miles north of Perth ) and then on to Dunkeld where he insisted on giving me lunch — he had originally thought of taking me to Gleneagles , but I had to get back to the outplacement people — and did so , only to find ‘ my ’ counsellor had , for the third time , failed to keep an appointment with me . |
| 28 | By the time we eventually turned to starboard and headed off towards the UK I was most anxious to get home : I was to be the best man at a wedding that day , and I had to get back before high noon , When the dawn really appeared we were lying very sedately over ( and we were not aware of it at the time ) Belgium . |
| 29 | I only became interested in public relations once I had come back to Germany . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |