Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PKK members had attacked a gendarmerie post in Sirnak 's Uludere district , and officials reported that surviving PKK fighters had fled back across the border into Iraq . |
| 2 | Traders have hit back with a T shirt campaign , warning town shoppers and town planners alike of what they see as a threat to the very fabric of the town centre . |
| 3 | The actor who played Dirty Den in Eastenders has gone back to the prison where he was once an inmate . |
| 4 | Before that the village 's only successful days had occurred back in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when it was a centre of the Basque whaling trade . |
| 5 | Conservationists have gone back to an ancient method of catching ducks , using a dog to lure the birds into a net . |
| 6 | Er they do after , yes th the , the nationalists had moved back across the south after nineteen forty five erm th th they 'd , they 'd retreated from the Japanese progressively after nineteen forty one and abandoned Shanghai and etcetera . |
| 7 | It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field . |
| 8 | All seven Fulmars had landed back on the carrier by 2015 but two were again scrambled almost immediately on the approach of three more S.79s . |
| 9 | Johnson 's forces had pulled back from the centre at the request of Dogonyaro . |
| 10 | When the men had gone back to the Inn Allen dropped out of the tree and ran down the slope to her . |
| 11 | The men had gone back to the bunk shelf and their feet swung , threatening and powerful , beside his face . |
| 12 | The important thing to remember , however , is that in many cases no definitive diagnosis can be made until the results have come back from the laboratory and the fact that nothing has been found at the time of the first visit does not mean that the follow-up visit should be missed . |
| 13 | ‘ The verderers have gone back to the Ridgery . ’ |
| 14 | Farther south in Aswan , security sources said militants had hit back for the storming of the mosque with at least three bomb attacks on police and the fire brigade . |
| 15 | But with falling profits many employers have cut back on the perk . |
| 16 | I note that the Opposition 's tax plans have gone back to the drawing board ; after five years of careful preparation , they have been ditched in a period of five weeks . |
| 17 | He had a high-rolling joint on the SS Nocturne , a ship anchored outside the limits , and some nasty rumours had floated back on the tides along with a well-dressed corpse or two . |
| 18 | Shares have slipped back from a high of 440p and a lot of the blame lies with its US offshoot Keebler . |
| 19 | THE Tories have fallen back on a quack cure for the economic ills they are forcing upon our country — even higher prescription charges . |