Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] back [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt , by doing that , I had effectively stepped back in time and discovered the one thing that should have been thought of before we even harnessed electricity . |
| 2 | Sandra had just arrived back in time to hear Mrs Foster 's grim assessment of the situation . |
| 3 | Lee had just come back from shopping . |
| 4 | Eddie had just got back from work when they had a row in the kitchen . |
| 5 | Leading figures in the RCM like the Marchioness of Reading , who had been born into a Jewish family , converted to Christianity and had now converted back to Judaism ; Elaine Blond , Sigmund Gestetner and Lola Hahn-Warburg quickly caught on to the message that the best chance of currying public favour was to play down the religious factor . |
| 6 | In the silence of the return journey she had almost slipped back to tranquillity and , oddly enough , it had helped to have him there beside her . |
| 7 | With no casualties to deal with , but with new staff and better equipment our doctors settled down to work with a will for the children from ‘ Peabody buildings ’ at the back of the hospital who had either come back from evacuation , or who would not go anyway . |