Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] have [vb pp] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top flight football should have come back to The Valley . |
| 2 | ‘ Jaime must have stood back and thought , ‘ God , what 's going on ’ . ’ |
| 3 | At 133 for 2 , England might have fought back for an honourable draw ; or they might not . |
| 4 | But if you had n't said it , Rachel … those barriers would have slammed back up and locked into place again . ’ |
| 5 | The old lady would have walked back to her villa , but Miguel stopped her by closing the door , and insisting that she wait for a golf cart . |
| 6 | Mrs Murphy would be in the kitchen , Barnes would have gone back for his supper . |
| 7 | By that time , the footballers of Halifax Town may have climbed back into the big league . |
| 8 | " Lizzie must have come back , " Sara said , but when the door opened , it was Matthew Preston who stood on the threshold . |
| 9 | Had it not been for another round of cost cutting , the group would have crept back into the black last year . |
| 10 | Uncle Philip must have come back so late at night or early in the morning that only Aunt Margaret was still awake . |
| 11 | Even if he did win , the owner would buy him in after the race , so that Boardwalk would have paid back a small fraction of his training costs . |
| 12 | Joe should have gone back to school the previous week but it was being used as an evacuation centre . |
| 13 | ‘ If we had given this young lad the car , people could have come back to us and said we had broken the rules , ’ the hotel owner said . |
| 14 | In the case of Caloris some of the ejecta from the impact would have fallen back into the basin because of the fairly high surface gravity . |
| 15 | Following it up with a barbaric dose of guitar pop like ‘ Kennedy ’ would have seen off any new-found ‘ fans ’ and old faithfuls would have welcomed back their indie darlings at the drop of a balalaika . |
| 16 | But we had to move quickly otherwise Colin would have gone back to Barnsley because his loan spell was over . ’ |
| 17 | He may well have been scorned , he may well have lost his job bad word may have got back to Rome , they may have sent the telegrams back to Caesar telling him all about Pilate , but it was n't sufficient reason for him rejecting Christ . |
| 18 | Southampton should have hit back after 28 minutes when Carl Tiler pulled down Nicky Banger . |
| 19 | Hence , when the animal was running the tail could have stretched back horizontally and acted as a balancing organ . |
| 20 | We must demand that these laws be abolished because if this government has its way , the working man will have gone back one hundred years . |
| 21 | The Cluthas could carry 360 passengers , and in the 60 years from the turn of the century the entire population of Glasgow must have moved back and forwards across the Clyde annually without ever getting its collective feet wet . |
| 22 | THE recent late splash of summer must have brought back memories of September 1940 , and the Battle of Britain , for many people in this province . |
| 23 | Stand around the fire , talk to the night-watchman but all the time taking a risk that the sergeant might have doubled back on you , to see if you were working your beat . |
| 24 | The United States would probably have reverted to isolationism as happened after the First World War ; Congress would have cut back Defence spending , starving the US defence/industrial base ; and American big business would have looked elsewhere for profitable enterprises . |
| 25 | If they had done the bank would have written back and said mind your own business . |
| 26 | To prove wrong those who say that any dieter will have put back the weight ( and more ) 12 months after losing it — 12 months on and 18 lbs ( 8.2 kg ) down , I 'm still a ‘ Hip and Thigh ’ fan . |
| 27 | He was surprised that the memory should have come back so keenly and at such a moment . |
| 28 | They might not be in , Mum will 've gone to the supermarket and Dad 'll have gone back to work . |
| 29 | Mitterrand , a staunch defender of French culture , may be a reluctant participant at the event , although his original objections must have melted back in 1987 when the American company said that with this , the fourth of its parks ( there are two in the United States and one outside Tokyo ) , it would create 12,000 jobs … |
| 30 | Team owner Frank Williams denied Mansell 's allegations , saying : ‘ No protest could have brought back those 10 points . |