Example sentences of "they have [verb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they 'd landed back on the plate , he leaned forward , studying the pattern they 'd formed . |
| 2 | They 've cut back on the number of trainees ; they 've cut back on the number of occasionally used specialists ; they 're really down to the bedrock now . |
| 3 | They 've cut back on the number of trainees ; they 've cut back on the number of occasionally used specialists ; they 're really down to the bedrock now . |
| 4 | Do you think perhap , erm , because it 's not so busy , do you think perhaps they 've cut back in the restaurant , and that 's why you 're doing a bit more work for the restaurant , you know , doing the floaters and things . |
| 5 | It is er as I see it they 've gone back to the drawing board with where the bands are actually how it 's banded . |
| 6 | Galerie de la Scala fared so well with a mixture of French , North European and Italian drawings , priced at FFr 20,000–350,000 , not always by famous names but always in exquisite taste , that they had to go back to the gallery for more . |
| 7 | Slowly but inevitably they had drifted back into a loving relationship , culminating three months ago in their engagement . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They had come back across the river and they were in a street close to the Embassy . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When they had walked back to the car , his father had offered him one of the fish . |
| 14 | I 'm saying is , is you ought to get very close to that geographical map because it 's the logistic logistics er difficulty with getting , and you ought to know where there are mountains and where there are valleys and the fact that that , in South Wales they ca n't just go across country , they have to go back down the valley after the M four and up again . |
| 15 | When they reach an obstacle , such as the sharks , they have to go back to the previous question . |
| 16 | ‘ They have to get back after the show . |