Example sentences of "have [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But I , I , I know that I missed out on the , the private education one because I should 've come back on that .
2 Mr Boesky is free to leave the centre during the day to look for work or meet his lawyers , but has to report back by 6pm .
3 He has to go back for it .
4 He is n't allowed to play football and has to go back to the hospital for treatment .
5 ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’
6 The twentieth-century preference for ‘ the colloquial ’ in poetry may well be a temporary phenomenon ; Donald Davie 's Purity of Diction in English Verse ( 1952 ) , together with his admiration for the late Augustans , represent one attempt to revive an interest in the use of a ‘ civilized ’ diction ; it is interesting that he has to go back to the age before Wordsworth .
7 To discover why Lindsey chose this particular aircraft from among many other types that were available , one has to go back to 1967 and Lindsey 's purchase of the ‘ Me 108 ’ .
8 ONE has to go back to Julius Caesar to understand Rome 's interest in Britain and the attitudes of the tribes of south-eastern Britain to Rome .
9 For comparison , one really has to go back to the Renaissance , to someone like Giovanni Bellini , who travelled an enormous territory ; even to Giotto , the artist who Matisse said was the peak of his aspiration .
10 ‘ Like everything else about Jean-Claude , one has to go back to his roots in la Sologne .
11 the reader has to go back to the previous stretch of discourse to establish what This refers to .
12 In the meantime he has to go back to the town on further business , but first his horse needs shoeing , his cart needs repairing and he needs food and shelter .
13 He says he 's feeling better but he has to go back to the hospice .
14 Both were successful in their task , Phyllisia no longer has to go back to the West Indies and Celie was reunited with all her family .
15 He actually corrected it later on when he has to go back into it but , you know , just , just a wee point there erm you did , did it initially but corrected it later on when you , you came back into it .
16 One only has to see Back to the Future to realize what problems could arise .
17 When she has shuffled back behind her counter I nod at Jamie 's pile of food .
18 ‘ Guy has flown back to London .
19 From a longer-term perspective , it can be said that the number of transactions per day has shown no tendency to increase since the mid-1970s ; there was a surge in total number of transactions during 1987 and 1988 due to a large number of deals between the newly established market makers but both transactions on behalf of customers and intra-market business has fallen back since then .
20 Given the losses and a circulation that has fallen back to 540,000 , in third place in the race behind the Sunday Times and The Sunday Telegraph , a premium price could not be expected .
21 The number of students who have entered chartered accountancy training contracts since the start of the 1992/93 academic year has fallen back to around 1982 levels , according to the Institute .
22 Suppose now , however , that B , having accepted S 's repudiation in June , sees the market beginning to rise rapidly in July and , in an attempt to minimise his loss before the market rises further , buys replacement goods on July 15 at £115 per ton — ; only to discover that by the delivery date under the original contract ( December 1 ) the market price has fallen back to £110 per ton .
23 The problems are not all one-sided , however , as it may be that a supplier of equipment or software has to fall back on contractual remedies .
24 If the patient can not use the lexical procedure to read , say , pint , and so has to fall back upon the non-lexical procedure , a reading error will result : pint will be read with a short i ( as in mint ) .
25 And as a result of that David Phillips who as I was saying in the first half has proved himself to be a very valuable all-rounder already to Forest has slotted back in at centre back again and that Garry Crosby has come on as substitute and taken up his usual position and Phillips ' first half position on the right wing .
26 Financial services rose on the back of increased consumer spending on cars , according to the group , and was ‘ almost buoyant ’ in the half year although it has dropped back since September .
27 Financial services rose on the back of increased consumer spending on cars , according to the group , and was ‘ almost buoyant ’ in the half year although it has dropped back since September .
28 In the 5 years with Maxwell junior at the helm , the club has dropped back into the second division and shows debts of up to £4.5 million .
29 Hamill , who has dropped back to 34th place in the Challenge Tour order of merit following his recent two-week break , had a three-under par 68 in the third round to leave him with a tournament aggregate of 210 , seven shots behind leader Frederick Larsson of Sweden .
30 Yet , take an accident like that hair in the gate , put it together with the coincidental gaze of a ghost , and it 's as if Fonda really has come back to life .
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