Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But North had at least a half-promise of another honour : Adolfo Calero revealed that the contras had plans to put up a statue of him in Managua , just as soon as they had won it back from the Sandinistas . |
| 2 | He had squeezed himself back into the side-car with his long legs stretched flat along the floor of the rectangular alloy box . |
| 3 | No matter what Joe 's and Tamar 's earlier lives had been , both were respectably married now and their father had accepted them back into the fold . |
| 4 | Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm going to the bathroom , ’ said Philip , putting the stupid lamp that his Mum had bought him back on the window-sill . |
| 6 | That much was real estate , available to anyone with the right money , although it did n't help to discover that Alison and her late husband , a philosophy don at Balliol , had bought it back in the early sixties for less than £2,000 . |
| 7 | When at last Hazel had got him back to the ditch , he refused at first to go underground and Hazel had almost to push him down the hole . |
| 8 | It was the thought of her that had drawn me back to the Lodge with my dream , and if this odd enterprise had any meaning at all it must lie , I believed , somewhere between the three of us . |
| 9 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 10 | Harry was able to fit in only two further meetings with Alice — one when she had taken him to see the very impressive new branch of the Maison Verveine , and the other when she had invited him back to the flat to meet Jules . |
| 11 | He drank too much and was usually overweight but , to his credit , had dragged himself back into the top thirty on the circuit in the last couple of years . |
| 12 | It had dragged him back to the stairwell , had gutted and fed from him to regain its strength . |
| 13 | After Gary Blissett had pulled one back in the 78th minute , substitute Marcus Gayle missed a great chance four minutes from the final whistle to level it . |
| 14 | After Ronnie McCullough had pulled one back in the opening minute of the second half , the Comrades dominated until the finish without being able to find an equaliser . |
| 15 | By the teethmarks in Heather 's T-shirt we knew Penny had pulled her back from the stairs — Heather 's body did n't have a mark on it . |
| 16 | And before that he had brought her back from the world , home again into the enclave of the Scarabae . |
| 17 | The accidents that had brought me back into the past were real enough . |
| 18 | He had found the second-hand playpen advertised on a newsagent 's board in Norwich and had brought it back on the top of the van . |
| 19 | A past boyfriend had brought it back from a holiday near Genoa . |
| 20 | He had followed her back to the car . |
| 21 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 22 | They had visited the fifteenth-century pavilion , which had taken them back to the world of 1492 and immersed them in an era that led up to the discovery of America . |
| 23 | It was the boy he had met when Georgiades had taken him back to the Place of the Dead ; Ali , Yussuf 's nephew . |
| 24 | He had forced her back against a closed door , literally and metaphorically . |
| 25 | His arrival had jolted me back into a proper appreciation of my problems , which I 'd pushed aside in my enjoyment of Mala 's warmer mood . |
| 26 | Ivan had held him back from the bedroom by force . |