Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Osaka has fought back with a splurge of infrastructure projects , most notably a new international airport perched upon a man-made island . |
| 2 | Shiona had smiled back at the fair-haired youth who had so recently become her brother . |
| 3 | Back inside , Rafiq had gone back to the thousand-dollar question . |
| 4 | As I entered , Miss Kenton had turned back to the window . |
| 5 | At the 18th green Manuel and Andy had walked back to the marked circle . |
| 6 | " That 's O.K. , " said Marion , but by then Sue had gone back into the shop . |
| 7 | Toby had come back for the moment . |
| 8 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 9 | Mark Frost has gone back as a bowler , though of course he could come again . |
| 10 | Fenella had gone back to the bed-chamber and pulled on her boots and found the warm woollen cloak she had brought from Renascia while Caspar had raided the sculleries and packed the maps . |
| 11 | Turner had faced back towards the exit from the yard , but he hesitated , saying , ‘ I know what your game is , Doyle . |
| 12 | Fergus had fallen back across the table and Taliesin and Fribble both moved to stand between him and the Lad . |
| 13 | Fergus had gone back into a deep sleep . |
| 14 | Loretta had wandered back into the drawing-room , and was chatting to a classics don who taught at the same college as Bridget . |
| 15 | THE QE2 's owners Cunard have hit back after a US federal review board blamed confusion and poor communication for the world 's largest liner running aground off the US east coast last summer . |
| 16 | What was it Graham had said back at the Windorah about Barak ? |
| 17 | Crocker had to fly back to the USA the following day , so there was limited time to convert John Allison with the airshow being held the following day . |
| 18 | Having escorted Felicity Suvarov around St Mark 's cathedral , Julia had gone back to the Danieli hotel and shared some lunch with her . |
| 19 | Thus was sexual liberation defined by an almost exclusively male heterosexual group , drawing on old subversions — Dada , Surrealism , Beat , Situationism — diffused through the mass-market expansion into commercial sex that Playboy had pioneered back in the 1950s . |
| 20 | Helen had scrambled back over the wall . |
| 21 | Her garter belt was a pre-war birthday present , and she wore a pair of the precious nylons that Sylvia had brought back from the States . |
| 22 | Meh'Lindi had darted back into a service tunnel and was decamping as fast as could be , cradling Grimm who was wailing like a baby . |
| 23 | Glowing with hope , Hank had gone back to the garage and pruned and polished . |
| 24 | A brief foray on to the upper deck , and Lindsey had retreated back into the warmth . |
| 25 | Jessamy had run back into the house . |
| 26 | Erlich came close to her , kneeling on the rug he knew that Harry had brought back from a fast run to Beirut . |
| 27 | Daak had jumped back into the cabin . |
| 28 | On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping . |
| 29 | Frye had moved back to the windows again , to watch Duvall and Pearce battling their way through the storm to the car wreck . |
| 30 | Bertha had sat back with the satisfied air of having played a trump card , until suddenly her lip had quivered as tears filled her eyes . |