Example sentences of "have [vb pp] back [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The fall of the Noldor ( S , p. 69 ) repeats a phrase from the Old English poem Maxims I about ‘ inventing and tempering wounding swords ’ : the Anglo-Saxon poet seems to have looked back to Cain and Abel for the origin of evil , rather than Adam and Eve , and to have seen evil 's symptom in metallurgy . |
| 32 | Rasari , a soldier with the Fijian contingent in the UN Peacekeeping Force in the Lebanon , had flown back to Fiji specifically for trials in preparation for this title defence . |
| 33 | The Qulis — who were met by police at Heathrow — had flown back from Dublin after collecting Farrah from Limerick . |
| 34 | The one drawback was that news of his success had travelled back to England . |
| 35 | By 1713 she had travelled back to England to oversee the Wilsthorpe estate . |
| 36 | He had travelled back to Keswick with her even though it had not been his previous intention to do so . |
| 37 | Then it turned out there was a glut of oil ; within a week , petrol prices had fallen back to pre-August levels . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | I 've come back to England to watch you spend it . ’ |
| 40 | Well at various times in my life I 've come back to Kingston and I first of all used to see peo girls who were at school with me . |
| 41 | I have n't been in here since I 've come back from Devon |
| 42 | I only became interested in public relations once I had come back to Germany . ’ |
| 43 | His only son — well provided in those days with cash — had come back to Europe in the early ‘ thirties with little in his mind except escape . |
| 44 | Her father had been an economist , who had come back to Europe with Woodrow Wilson to try to hammer something workable out of the ruins of the Great War , and after that the family had divided themselves between the USA and Britain . |
| 45 | Had n't everything gone wrong from the moment she had come back to Eastlake ? |
| 46 | My parents , who had come back to Hastings from their exile in Somerset to fish and clean , as they always did , had braved all and were coming to the wedding . |
| 47 | Dustin Hoffman had come back with Rainman , but Warren had n't done anything . |
| 48 | Some colour had come back into Jennifer 's face . |
| 49 | McFarlane had come back from London in December 1985 disgusted with the bartering , repelled by Ghorbanifar and wanting to abandon the operation . |
| 50 | She remembered that fated evening when she had come back from Wimbledon after seeing Hindley Foster . |
| 51 | Ever since that ghastly winter 's night when she had come back from Wimbledon and said she was pregnant . |
| 52 | When he had come back from Grasmere the first thing he had done — despite George Wood 's vehement protests — was to pay back the loan and bring his hotel bill up to the mark . |
| 53 | The British army had come back from Dunkirk with nothing but its rifles . |
| 54 | With relief Suzi had departed back to Hochhauser , feeling she had n't altogether lost face amongst her fellow students after all , her choice of career was still quite artistic and adventurous , it was still ‘ show business ’ in a way — but also overjoyed to be going home . |
| 55 | He had turned back to Rodriguez . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | And when the lightning had forked inwards through the window and shattered the typing-pool window , Gilbert had turned back to Rohmer in helpless appeal . |
| 58 | And the teacher , too , might have made the same terrible mistake that she had made back in Teheran all those years before . |
| 59 | On Saturday Maxim had moved back into Wellington Barracks ; he was supposed to be looking for a new flat to go with his London posting . |
| 60 | Pauline Simonescu , finding the austerities of post-war London bad for business , had moved back to Paris at about the same time he , too , had returned , from Oxford . |