Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [vb pp] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Gold Coast had fallen back from the situation 50 years earlier when English-educated Africans had played a leading part in administration , Christian leadership , the judiciary and the learned professions . |
| 2 | Major debt defaults in Mexico and Brazil had prompted a worldwide retreat from international bank lending and the virtual collapse of the syndicated loan market ; since then , unofficial observers estimated that some $45,000 million of net development capital aid had flowed back from the borrowing countries and towards the lenders . |
| 3 | The men on the fence had disappeared back into the trees . |
| 4 | They drank whisky and cider , watched pornogrhapic videos that the teacher had brought back from a holiday in Germany . |
| 5 | The image of the policeman had faded back into the trees , the fear of pursuit was momentarily forgotten as he relived the saga of his escape . |
| 6 | My husband gave me the news that my father had died back in the village . |
| 7 | The woman had come back to the farm 's archway from where she and two men stared nervously up the road towards Frasnes . |
| 8 | An attempt had been made to have the case relisted before the sentencer within the 28 day period during which variations in sentence are permitted by Supreme Court Act 1981 , S.4 ; , and if the matter had come back before the sentencer within that period it would have been open to him to review the sentence and impose a lawful sentence . |
| 9 | Once again Congress had struck back against an overweening executive branch . |
| 10 | The dark green sun umbrella above them threw shadows across Guy 's face , but she realised that the teasing gleam had crept back into the narrowed gaze . |
| 11 | He had thought Lehmann had died intestate that his vast fortune had gone back to the Seven . |
| 12 | Against the black walls there were of course changes in fashion , changes of music , changes in drink ; for instance for a couple of years you could get little liqueur glasses of violently alcoholic black coffee with pyramids of whipped cream on top after one of the barstaff had come back from an affair with a real sailor ( or so he said anyway ) in some German port , Germany somewhere . |
| 13 | Ace 's finger remained clamped down on the trigger even after all seven bullets had gone and the slide had locked back in the ‘ empty ’ position . |
| 14 | None of the people who worked at the hotel could explain how the shoe had got back into the room . |
| 15 | The man with the gun had run back to the car . |
| 16 | The Socialist League and the Scottish Socialist Party had gone back to the Labour Party and many members of the Independent Socialist Party were to do so before long . |