Example sentences of "i have [adv] [vb pp] back " in BNC.
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1 | Well I c I I 've seen so many things over the year I just do n't believe it until I actually see it and th literally four weeks ago , I 'd just got back from Germany , went on a meeting the following morning and it 's that gentleman there , Steve , and h he 's got some pictures in his pocket which will prove exactly what we 're talking about . |
2 | That was er I 'd just got back from work . |
3 | My head shook as though I 'd just knocked back some hundred-proof whisky . |
4 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |
5 | Er then he made the I 'd better cut back to the business card because you jumped into the statement of purpose erm you assum er there was an assumed er was okay erm I put superb and I ca n't remember what that actually was there . |
6 | She said you 'd woken , but when you did n't turn up I thought I 'd better come back to investigate . ’ |
7 | I suppose if I had n't gone back into that room they 'd have found some other way of leaving the message . ’ |
8 | And then , quite suddenly and unwished , the thought : ‘ Wish I had n't come back . ’ |
9 | I felt , by doing that , I had effectively stepped back in time and discovered the one thing that should have been thought of before we even harnessed electricity . |
10 | I thought of the most dedicated cricket fanatic I had ever known back in South Africa — a man who despite repeated heart attacks , doctors ' warnings and family entreaties to stop playing the game , had persisted with club cricket to the end , in his sixties diving after slip catches as recklessly as he had in his teens . |
11 | I suppose , by saying this I 've already gone back on my word . |
12 | and I 've not come back till twelve ! |
13 | I said I 've just gone back |
14 | In fact , I 've just flown back from the States today , and you 'll be glad to hear that the doctors assured me that Liz and Owen are on the road to a full recovery . ’ |
15 | I 've just come back from France . |
16 | I 've I 've just come back on that D two stop three . |
17 | ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there . |
18 | ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’ |
19 | I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped |
20 | I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here . |
21 | No I 've just come back to it and I find my lunch box overflowing with crisp packets . |
22 | I 've just got back to England . |
23 | ‘ I 've just got back . |
24 | 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 |
25 | Yet I 've always held back . |
26 | Marriage will often be discussed with a kind of tolerant resignation as one of those burdens which have to be carried in life , the stuff of music-hall jokes : ‘ Since I 've had my wife behind me I 've never looked back ! ’ |
27 | From there , I 've never looked back . |
28 | ‘ Since then I 've never looked back . |
29 | And since Jack Walker got involved , I suppose my form has followed the fortunes of the club , and I 've never looked back . ’ |
30 | ‘ And I 've never looked back . ’ |