Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] had [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My husband gave me the news that my father had died back in the village . |
| 2 | He told the doctors all about how my dad had come back to life in this grey cardigan and had told him the secrets of the universe . |
| 3 | As other departments , such as Visual Effects , joined in the unofficial boycott of Doctor Who ( see Chapter Five ) , Verity Lambert , Mervyn Pinfield and their team had to fall back on ingenuity from their Designers and Directors , plus backing from Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson who both maintained great faith in the prospects of the show . |
| 4 | She had received the news that her husband was seriously ill and she and her children had rushed back to be with him . |
| 5 | It was a glorious victory when he managed to persuade the grown-ups to let him stay on after his parents had gone back to Manchester . |
| 6 | His dreams had come back after many nights which had seemed as empty as death , dreams of walking between high hedges , it was daylight on the other side of them but gloaming where he was and thick earth rose up to his knees , to his waist , stopping him , he tried to open his mouth but his jaw-bones jammed , he was choking … |
| 7 | Blanche scanned Robert 's face for his true beliefs but in vain : his features had collapsed back into inscrutability . |
| 8 | The one drawback was that news of his success had travelled back to England . |