Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within minutes the car was free , and before I could thank the young farmer I 'd been invited back for a cup of tea and some hot broth . |
| 2 | In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’ |
| 3 | She then pointed to the recipe — Turkish Stuffing for a whole Roast Sheep — delighted by the disparity between the thought of this sheep and the few ounces of meat a week which begun jotting down recipes for this book after she had been sent back to England in 1945 , owing to her health , from New Delhi , where she had been living with her husband . |
| 4 | She had been seduced back into the house , and now everything was to do again . |
| 5 | She had been taken back to Ardeevan and put in one of the observation wards . |
| 6 | So from US you have been led back to US AND GOD ; it remains to go on to GOD AND US . ’ |
| 7 | Not only had a 30-minute journey taken one hour , but according to him , we 'd been brought back to where we started ! |
| 8 | If we 'd been put back with an American maybe it meant that at least one of us could expect to be released . |
| 9 | Then a ripple of information came down the queue to say that we had been ordered back to the station because there obviously was n't sufficient bus capacity . |
| 10 | ‘ We were confident we had the quality to beat our rivals but we had been held back by the exchange rates , ’ said , sales manager plastic compounds . |
| 11 | ‘ What has happened is that we have been clawed back from the disastrous level of whitefish we started at to a position in line with the top end of scientific advice . ’ |
| 12 | If they 'd been traced back to here , it would have been your responsibility . ’ |
| 13 | A few Bronze Age artifacts were turned up in the dark soil , but they had meant nothing to those who had seen them , and they had been turned back into the earth . |
| 14 | The England one-day expert hit an unbeaten 65 as Lancashire reached only 218 for six off their allotted 55 overs after they had been pegged back by Leicester 's lively attack . |
| 15 | The prosecution could not prove that he had encashed the giros because they are destroyed by the DSS twelve months after they have been received back from the clearing banks . |
| 16 | Consequently , the weft strands form the pattern on the face of the rug which , because they have been looped back around the warp strands , is clearly visible from both back and front . |
| 17 | ‘ I expect they have been taken back to the Wyrmberg . ’ |
| 18 | He has been welcomed back with open arms by team-mates who appreciate talent , courage and strong character — we will need all three qualities to overcome the Springboks . |
| 19 | It has been sent back with a frosty message from one of his constituents , who is unidentified . |
| 20 | THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place . |
| 21 | It has been cut back to 700 shops , each with just six departments . |
| 22 | It has been brought back in 5.5 but is no longer a . |
| 23 | ‘ He 'd been taken back to Germany for slave labour . |
| 24 | Whatever evidence the IAAF officials discovered in the laboratory , one only needed to look at recent pictures of Johnson , in which he resembled an inflated balloon , to guess that his improved times showed he 'd been sucked back into the drug culture . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , he said that he wanted to do something useful with his life , seeing that it had been given back to him when he had n't expected it . |
| 26 | Dalgliesh found himself wondering if it had been brought back from a school trip to the capital . |
| 27 | A BITTER David Gower blasted England 's selectors last night after he was virtually the last to hear he had been tossed back into the cricketing wilderness . |
| 28 | The sea breeze was strong enough to mould the skirts of passing women , and Grunte , who could remember little of the events of the night , save that he had spent a good deal of money feeding the faces of his party faithful ( ‘ Pity about Hyacinth ’ ) , and that he had been seen back to the Grand after a drink or two by Leroy Burns ( ‘ Grand fellow , must see if I ca n't find him another Sierra ’ ) , gave thought to his pending performance . |
| 29 | Where the wings of pain had dropped him , there had miraculously been infinite but unblinding light , a great strenuous joy that was somehow calm , like a crystal bowl that you do not drink out of , and now he had been floated back to the comfortable shore of his cool clean bed . |
| 30 | He had been escorted back to the Vicarage by a plainclothes officer , not the one who had been working most closely with Commander Dalgliesh , but an older man , broad-shouldered , stolid , reassuringly calm , who had spoken to him in a soft country accent which he could n't recognize but was most certainly not local . |