Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] back to " in BNC.
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| 31 | The sky had now stripped back to blue as he entered slowly and with a surge of pleasure into the cut of Buttermere . |
| 32 | Neither the size of the orchestras nor the size of the stage seems to have deterred you from staging major works by Verdi — Un ballo in maschera , for instance , which you 've now come back to after fifty years — Wagner , and Strauss . |
| 33 | One archer had really gone back to basics ; he had started making his own bows by means of trial and error and a book from the library . |
| 34 | In the silence of the return journey she had almost slipped back to tranquillity and , oddly enough , it had helped to have him there beside her . |
| 35 | He had used the rest buying drinks to console himself and had then staggered back to the flat for the night . |
| 36 | Bragg and Morton had barely got back to their office when a young constable Poked his head round the door . |
| 37 | I was quite sure of that for my father had again gone back to Rye marshes to reinforce the defences . |
| 38 | Smith had therefore turned back to an earlier idea of Carl Gauss . |
| 39 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 40 | She had never gone back to the beach . |
| 41 | ‘ I wish we had never come back to this house . |
| 42 | ‘ As I heard it , my lord , he 's already gone back to Hereford . ’ |
| 43 | He never let Liverpool down , but the management have always gone back to Bruce Grobbelaar . |
| 44 | Paul and Malcolm Bream first spent time exploring possible sources of voluntary funding , and then saw what might be done with the local authority , but have now turned back to their original search for their own place . |
| 45 | The dogs have been kennelled , and the bodyguards have either gone back to bed or have fallen asleep in the hall . |