Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only became interested in public relations once I had come back to Germany . ’ |
| 2 | By 1713 she had travelled back to England to oversee the Wilsthorpe estate . |
| 3 | In this case , sometime before we reached Ixyphal , she had gone back to the storage and cargo area to look at the sculpture again , murmuring things like ’ masterpiece ’ and ’ magnificent ’ and the usual art-appreciation noises that people murmur . |
| 4 | They contained news of Rose , details of life in wartime Oswaldston , stories from her daily work in teaching , which she had gone back to . |
| 5 | She had come back to the nursery ready to sympathize with Nannie about the underarm cramp caused by her inside . |
| 6 | Had n't everything gone wrong from the moment she had come back to Eastlake ? |
| 7 | That , she thought , was as good an idea as any , and on silent feet she went as swiftly as she had come back to her kitchen . |
| 8 | They all looked and saw that Mildred 's feet , still recovering from the invisibility potion , had not yet reappeared , even though she had changed back to her usual self . |
| 9 | You had come back to me in order to show me your poems : there was no one else to whom you could show them . |
| 10 | We had driven back to the village and had just turned off the road on to the In Salah track . |
| 11 | They had turned back to Sicily and I could n't see a formation but spotted a straggler who , curiously enough , was flying diagonally across our line of approach and not heading pell-mell for home . |
| 12 | The rebels in Makati calmly bargained for surrender terms which , they insisted , should include her own resignation — and the terms behind the government 's report that they had gone back to barracks were not immediately clear this morning . |
| 13 | By lunchtime on the 29th they had climbed back to 69p . |
| 14 | The kids ? ’ he said when they had got back to his digs . |
| 15 | When they had walked back to the car , his father had offered him one of the fish . |
| 16 | As Chemistry in Britain went to press in December it had settled back to around $25.50–27.50 per lb . |
| 17 | He had quite forgotten it , or , rather , it had sunk back to the dark , subterranean level from which it had sprung and on which he really did believe his father might kill him some day . |
| 18 | He had travelled back to Keswick with her even though it had not been his previous intention to do so . |
| 19 | He had run back to his patrol car and followed the Sierra , containing two men , catching it near the village of Burton Salmon . |
| 20 | He had turned back to Rodriguez . |
| 21 | The Chancellor had left Blackpool late on Monday night , after addressing party agents , but conference jitters were so great that his unexpected disappearance prompted rumours that he had gone back to London for crisis talks . |
| 22 | Joe was trying to be bright and cheerful , but there was a deep undercurrent of sadness , and later , when he had gone back to his office , Dana said : ‘ I think he 's terribly lonely . ’ |
| 23 | He had gone back to Britain after leaving the holding camp in Japan . |
| 24 | Later we learned that he had gone back to London and given a mischievous account of our conversation in literary circles , and we were ‘ very much blamed ’ . |
| 25 | Bewildered and hurt at her lack of interest , too shy to ask what the trouble was , he had gone back to the garage completely mystified , and had spent the rest of the evening painting his jalopy electric blue . |
| 26 | He had gone back to those . |
| 27 | Kronweiser 's suspicions were set at rest , and he had gone back to the States . |
| 28 | Because he had gone back to the woodlands where the trees were . |
| 29 | He had gone back to calling her Maggie . |
| 30 | His work finished , or perhaps even abandoned , he had gone back to Water Gypsy , expecting her to be there . |