Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly but inevitably they had drifted back into a loving relationship , culminating three months ago in their engagement . |
| 2 | In January 1982 , Malawi Radio announced that the Chirwas had been arrested with their son on Christmas Eve , and claimed that they had slipped back into the country to incite opposition to Banda 's Government . |
| 3 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 4 | They had come back as a fleet , their sails bellying out under the south-westerly gale , the men shouting to each other across the water to compare catches , and their womenfolk waiting on the beach to help with the unloading and to make a start on the gutting and salting and packing . |
| 5 | They had come back across the river and they were in a street close to the Embassy . |
| 6 | And in the mid-afternoon , only a few hours after they had arrived back at the apartment , an urgent message had come through for Ross by fax . |
| 7 | When they had walked back to the car , his father had offered him one of the fish . |
| 8 | The three of them had come back down the tunnel to the entrance , with the man pushing Nona in front of him as a hostage . |