Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have [vb pp] 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 | I could have gone back for them . ’ |
| 3 | She looked down into her drink and answered evasively , ‘ I suppose I could have gone back to Darlington , but I preferred to stay down here . ’ |
| 4 | Castration was what I would have recommended back in England , where there is less space for dogs to wander and where welfare considerations for a dog out on his own are obviously of prime concern . |
| 5 | You should have gone back to the optician when you had the eye infection , as this was clear evidence that there was something wrong . |
| 6 | She must have gone back over the cards much later , when she was old . |
| 7 | But again , see again cos we 're not following the actual script , the picking up and pinpointing people mentioned in earlier conversations , which you would 've done if you 'd 've gone back to the planning the future . |
| 8 | We may have slipped back in some fields , but in others ( such as molecular biology or pharmaceutical research ) we remain world leaders . |
| 9 | We could have gone back to the where we started and then we only paid a couple of hundred pounds a year for the land that they used to keep the grass cut and everything but the problem was really the area . |
| 10 | We work with about 60 women a year , and I know many of them would genuinely say that at the start they were unemployable , that they could have gone back to drugs , ended up back in prison , but they did n't because Clean Break was there at the right time for them , to give them the opportunities they needed . |
| 11 | Now Rangers face the backlash in a top-five clash at Old Trafford today , with evergreen skipper Wilkins , 36 , saying : ‘ I thought they 'd have bounced back after that defeat . |
| 12 | So the old ones they 'd have taken back to that yard place would n't they ? |
| 13 | Moreover , if they were to break through within the established system then they just might be a little less enthusiastic about introducing proportional representation as " a first priority " since it could let one of the parties they would have displaced back into the game . |
| 14 | But Guido was there all right ; he must have come back without Ronni knowing , and he was facing Silvia in the enormous hallway , a fulminating tower of bristling black anger . |
| 15 | He could have come back on that one , if he 'd really tried , but sometimes it was much easier to lie on the floor and watch the lights on the ceiling and listen to the count going on . |
| 16 | An inch higher and a thought quicker , and he could have climbed back down the rocks vindicated and free , with all his debts paid . |
| 17 | He could have doubled back to Gainsborough later . |
| 18 | He 'd have come back at the weekend , most likely . |
| 19 | ‘ If he was alive , he 'd have come back to us ! |
| 20 | Richard would never have left anything behind anywhere , or , if he had , he would have gone back for it . |
| 21 | Ironically , Rockefeller was exactly that type of capitalist he would have despised back in England . |