Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , I had only come back for a day or two to buy some good German clothes . |
| 2 | Usually , what with shooting and swimming with the others and riding up at Biddy 's , he had only got back to the garden shed in time to flake out until morning . |
| 3 | But no , she could not ride tomorrow , her boots had not come back from the shoemaker 's . |
| 4 | Edward had not come back from the construction firm at David with anything saved up , but then , she had hardly expected him to . |
| 5 | The educated classes had just stood back as the aspiring politician and the over-eager Methodist forced the showmen into a reliance on the melodramatic and the romantic . |
| 6 | When she had finished she turned to Nara , who had just come back with the things she needed and was peering round the door , as if he was too scared of her magic to come right in . |
| 7 | The three other members of the crew had just come back to the pump — we were doing " series pumping " — they had brought me a bottle of beer and I was taking a swig . |
| 8 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 9 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By the Middle Ages the river had gradually cut back through the neck of land at this side of the rise , until it cut right through to where it runs now . |
| 12 | The majority of these had probably escaped back across the marsh , they thought ; indeed many had never been engaged . |
| 13 | In the pasture behind Sharpe the Prussian horsemen were making a line to face the remaining Dragoons who , outnumbered , had cautiously pulled back towards the skyline . |
| 14 | She had then come back past the stables to pay a visit to her father 's huge slobbering wolf hounds so the tidy boot prints did n't have a returning track beside them . |
| 15 | He had used the rest buying drinks to console himself and had then staggered back to the flat for the night . |
| 16 | Smith had therefore turned back to an earlier idea of Carl Gauss . |
| 17 | She had never gone back to the beach . |
| 18 | The trouble was that Deborah had never come back through the wood before , only the one way — to Pack Meetings . |