Example sentences of "he had [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | She remembered how she had n't been allowed to hold him for more than a moment before he had to go back behind the bars of his crib . |
| 2 | Hanging over him all the time , however , was the knowledge that he had to go back into hospital for further surgery on his spine . |
| 3 | He said he had to go back to work tomorrow . |
| 4 | This meant he had to go back to the county party and ask to be put back on their panel of candidates , a request which was turned down on Saturday . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's fine , ’ said Comfort , ‘ but he had to go back to the hospital after dinner . |
| 6 | He had to go back in the end because there was no one else to put her to bed , but he hated touching her . ’ |
| 7 | He would chase after them with me in hot pursuit , so he had to go back . |
| 8 | ‘ He — Mark you mean ? — he had to go back . |
| 9 | Oh we used to have phosphate and sulphur , potash , coal , granite you name it anything , general cargo we 've had , loaded everything , even dead bodies , we sent , there was one young , one young person , he got drowned up the coast there and they and he had to go back to Holland and they brought that from out the warehouse and put it on the stern of our ship , his coffin , they sent that back and they erm export er pigs to Poland , all live pigs , pedigree pigs . |
| 10 | ‘ So when he told me he had to go back home to Fyn to meet someone , but that I could go with him if I wanted , I gave him an ultimatum . ’ |
| 11 | So anyway , erm they met me and Bert had to go back to his office and Will said he had to go back to his office , but he said , What would you like to do ? |
| 12 | He , he was apparently and then on the Saturday or Sunday h h he , he started to reject so he had to go back in . |
| 13 | They took it out and sort of temporarily fixed it in so that they could get this out at the funeral and then he had to go back later and fix the window in . |
| 14 | and what we doing now is London , London yesterday and you , you should have been at home today but he had to go back to London again so I did n't keep him very much , given up is it ? |
| 15 | If he , if he could n't do anything then he would accept it and not do it and then try a bit and if he had to go back to bed . |
| 16 | that 's what you did , he had to go back there with you . |
| 17 | Get , get well away and he , and he had to go back |
| 18 | Then he had dashed back inside and curled up in his seat with his hands covering his ears until she came to take him home . |
| 19 | It was ultimately Craig 's responsibility and yet he had stood back and allowed himself to be duped and Emily 's father to be ruined . |
| 20 | He was told to imagine that he had travelled back in time to the afternoon of the abduction and was watching the events unfold on a television documentary . |
| 21 | He had travelled back to Keswick with her even though it had not been his previous intention to do so . |
| 22 | He had leaned back a little , brushing her hair back softly with his fingers , pausing to gaze long and deep into her eyes . |
| 23 | She quoted him : on one occasion when the Princess had waved him away , pleading a cold , he had breathed back at her , ‘ It would be a privilege to catch a cold of yours . ’ |
| 24 | He had run back to his patrol car and followed the Sierra , containing two men , catching it near the village of Burton Salmon . |
| 25 | He continued up the hill , and she went on down ; but a few paces further on she stopped and looked back , and it was at that precise moment that it happened , because he had turned back as well and for a few moments they looked longingly at each other , each tongue-tied , but each sure , now , of the other 's feelings . |
| 26 | He had turned back to Rodriguez . |
| 27 | He had turned back to help someone else out of the train , but at the sound of her calling , he swung round and stood waiting , his arms outstretched and his face , above that dear and familiar gingery beard , creased with the broadest smile . |
| 28 | Turning down offers of work , Crawford took a rest after six exhausting years , during which he had bounced back from his film disappointments to become one of Britain 's top television and stage stars . |
| 29 | He had stepped back and was looking me up and down . |
| 30 | The Chancellor had left Blackpool late on Monday night , after addressing party agents , but conference jitters were so great that his unexpected disappearance prompted rumours that he had gone back to London for crisis talks . |