Example sentences of "who had [vb pp] back [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While those who had gone back to Braithwaite 's mill had been picked out of the crowd by wild little Oliver Rattrie , the eldest Rattrie boy — nineteen or twenty she supposed he 'd be by now — the twisted , crook-shouldered lad who had done more talking of pikes and pistols and bloody revolution than anybody else at the meetings in her back-yard . |
| 2 | Police did not restore order until commanded to do so in the small hours of Aug. 27 by President Zhelyu Zhelev ( who had rushed back to Sofia from Varna , on the opposite side of the country ) . |
| 3 | It was a cruel blow for Blackburn , who had bounced back from Sunday 's Coca-Cola Cup semi-final defeat at Hillsborough to twice lead through Steve Livingstone and Mike Newell . |
| 4 | Her father had been an economist , who had come back to Europe with Woodrow Wilson to try to hammer something workable out of the ruins of the Great War , and after that the family had divided themselves between the USA and Britain . |
| 5 | My parents , who had come back to Hastings from their exile in Somerset to fish and clean , as they always did , had braved all and were coming to the wedding . |