Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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31 He had used the rest buying drinks to console himself and had then staggered back to the flat for the night .
32 Smith had therefore turned back to an earlier idea of Carl Gauss .
33 She had never gone back to the beach .
34 The trouble was that Deborah had never come back through the wood before , only the one way — to Pack Meetings .
35 ‘ They have had their ins and outs and have all got back into the side , ’ he says .
36 There is a dusting of snow in Cwm Glas Mawr and above , while clouds have just rolled back from the summit ridge .
37 The group 's clarinettist Tracy Redfern and flautist Philippa Bradford , Nicola 's older sister , have just got back from a visit to Germany with Kirklees junior wind band .
38 She promised to find out , and she 's just come back with the results .
39 An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand .
40 We have simultaneously slipped back into a compromising embrace with the very form of instrumental utilitarianism which got the world into such a mess in the first place : that things are of value because they are of value to us , not because they are of value in themselves .
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