Example sentences of "[noun] have [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sometimes , when writing we repeat a word unknowingly and when we read it again we recognise that our pen has slipped back over old ground : we have not found the right word . |
| 32 | The actor who played Dirty Den in Eastenders has gone back to the prison where he was once an inmate . |
| 33 | She says one boy has gone back to bed wetting because he 's so worried . |
| 34 | Mark Frost has gone back as a bowler , though of course he could come again . |
| 35 | Jake turned and looked urgently at his son ; but Adam 's gaze had fallen back to Undry , and Ruth was n't sure he 'd heard . |
| 36 | It was a glorious victory when he managed to persuade the grown-ups to let him stay on after his parents had gone back to Manchester . |
| 37 | Fenella had gone back to the bed-chamber and pulled on her boots and found the warm woollen cloak she had brought from Renascia while Caspar had raided the sculleries and packed the maps . |
| 38 | Turner had faced back towards the exit from the yard , but he hesitated , saying , ‘ I know what your game is , Doyle . |
| 39 | But Camille had turned back to her toenails and could n't see her mother 's face . |
| 40 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |
| 41 | Hoddle 's anger came after Rovers had pulled back to 4-3 with a goal two minutes from time from a free-kick awarded when goalkeeper Frazer Digby picked up a loose ball . |
| 42 | Fergus had fallen back across the table and Taliesin and Fribble both moved to stand between him and the Lad . |
| 43 | Fergus had gone back into a deep sleep . |
| 44 | Loretta had wandered back into the drawing-room , and was chatting to a classics don who taught at the same college as Bridget . |
| 45 | Incidentally , they were things that Mikhoels had brought back from Chagall as a gift for the Tretyakov Gallery . |
| 46 | Simon had swivelled back to me and handed me a piece of paper with an address in Theobalds Road . |
| 47 | THE QE2 's owners Cunard have hit back after a US federal review board blamed confusion and poor communication for the world 's largest liner running aground off the US east coast last summer . |
| 48 | Companies have rushed back into debt , mainly to finance overseas acquisitions , especially in Britain and America . |
| 49 | Good God you have n't heard if Karen 's gone back in , no . |
| 50 | American supermarkets have hit back by cutting many of their prices and printing more money off coupons . |
| 51 | Tom turns his head in embarrassment and has it explained to him that his regular caddie has gone back to Orville Moody , and I 'm his new one , so he says , ‘ OK ’ , and walks on to the first tee . |
| 52 | And as a result of that David Phillips who as I was saying in the first half has proved himself to be a very valuable all-rounder already to Forest has slotted back in at centre back again and that Garry Crosby has come on as substitute and taken up his usual position and Phillips ' first half position on the right wing . |
| 53 | From a longer-term perspective , it can be said that the number of transactions per day has shown no tendency to increase since the mid-1970s ; there was a surge in total number of transactions during 1987 and 1988 due to a large number of deals between the newly established market makers but both transactions on behalf of customers and intra-market business has fallen back since then . |
| 54 | What was it Graham had said back at the Windorah about Barak ? |
| 55 | The team had moved back in again , carefully sifting and analysing . |
| 56 | Burun had rocked back onto his heels . |
| 57 | They drank whisky and cider , watched pornogrhapic videos that the teacher had brought back from a holiday in Germany . |
| 58 | Before that the village 's only successful days had occurred back in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when it was a centre of the Basque whaling trade . |
| 59 | Susannah had gone back to India in 1913 when we sailed from Jibuti to England . |
| 60 | Of all the people in the world she least wanted to see , yet most wanted to see , Tyler had walked back into her life to turn it upside down . |