Example sentences of "not [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have not heard back from you since then , and I wondered if you could please confirm that you are still interested in receiving a copy of the tape ? |
| 2 | The show was over , and Sweetheart had not come back for him . |
| 3 | He had seen his earliest pupils , as had my father , either not come back at all , or come back broken men . |
| 4 | Tommaso had not come back at Ascension , though some others who 'd been called to military service at the same time walked into town one afternoon . |
| 5 | Since he had not come back to Møn he must be dead — there could be no other explanation . |
| 6 | Why not come back to my place for coffee ? |
| 7 | and leave , but not come back to me . |
| 8 | But at the moment he 's well he 's not come back to us with any answer from our offer at all so we 're we 're presuming that means no so we thought we 'd better start looking . |
| 9 | Branfoot said : ‘ Matt has not come back with an answer but we are still in the early stages of negotiation . ’ |
| 10 | and I 've not come back till twelve ! |
| 11 | But no , she could not ride tomorrow , her boots had not come back from the shoemaker 's . |
| 12 | Edward had not come back from the construction firm at David with anything saved up , but then , she had hardly expected him to . |
| 13 | Kernaghan has not looked back since then . |
| 14 | Not expected back for quite a while yet , I suppose ? |
| 15 | The situation was desperate : Holmes was away on a case , and not expected back for some time . |
| 16 | He is not expected back in London until after Christmas . |
| 17 | The boy in the stable said that Mr Kiniver was out at a funeral and was not expected back until late . |
| 18 | ‘ But you 're not expected back until tomorrow . |
| 19 | ‘ I have not got back to my normal working routine , quite honestly . |
| 20 | Why are the valley sides not worn back to more gentle slopes as in normal valleys ? |
| 21 | Benny usually went home around four-thirty unless the boss offered him some overtime , and Joe Maitland had not arrived back from his buying trip . |
| 22 | Most of them are ex-soldiers , many from the Afghan campaign , who have not settled back into civilian life . |
| 23 | She had not gone back to whoring , but eked out a miserable living as a washerwoman , for which she lacked the stamina . |
| 24 | Why had Parr not gone back to England ? |
| 25 | While capitalist states elsewhere have had to deal with high levels of inflation , balance of payment crises , low productivity and increasing demands put on State expenditure , Britain has had to respond not only to these problems but also to a decline in its manufacturing base : profits from industry have not gone back in sufficient volume to sustain the long-term investment in new technology that Britain has needed . |
| 26 | But Mr Pillsbury was not asked back for a second interview . |
| 27 | Gerald Crawford , spokesman for the FCC , rejected the criticism , saying procedures had been changed three years ago to make sure confiscated nets were not passed back to poachers . |
| 28 | He then came home , but was not allowed back to School for another year . |
| 29 | Railway stock sent from Black Sea ports to another area , the Middle Volga , was not sent back for more grain , but for the most part ended up in Siberia . |
| 30 | The clever are not held back by their slower classmates , for the bright child and the less able , working with children of their own level , are able to compete intellectually on equal terms . |