Example sentences of "[conj] they had [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rebels in Makati calmly bargained for surrender terms which , they insisted , should include her own resignation — and the terms behind the government 's report that they had gone back to barracks were not immediately clear this morning . |
| 2 | In January 1982 , Malawi Radio announced that the Chirwas had been arrested with their son on Christmas Eve , and claimed that they had slipped back into the country to incite opposition to Banda 's Government . |
| 3 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 4 | For one unbelievable moment their eyes met and once again it was as if they had stepped back into their own circle of magic . |
| 5 | And in the mid-afternoon , only a few hours after they had arrived back at the apartment , an urgent message had come through for Ross by fax . |
| 6 | When they had walked back to the car , his father had offered him one of the fish . |
| 7 | The kids ? ’ he said when they had got back to his digs . |