Example sentences of "[vb pp] back from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've just come back from France . |
| 2 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 3 | Capercaillie in Scotland have already come back from near extinction once . |
| 4 | Then there I was come back from ante-natal and it was blown clean away . |
| 5 | McFarlane had come back from London in December 1985 disgusted with the bartering , repelled by Ghorbanifar and wanting to abandon the operation . |
| 6 | Tremayne made more than his usual fuss over Fiona , sensing some sort of turmoil , telling her comfortably that Mackie had just come back from Ascot races where he 'd sent a runner for the apprentice race which had proved a total waste of time . |
| 7 | The British army had come back from Dunkirk with nothing but its rifles . |
| 8 | One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping . |
| 9 | They should also be in frequent contact with all of the somewhat numerous organisations involved in the rural development of the Western Isles , and with the admirable young people who have come back from the mainland to work at the grass-roots level . |
| 10 | Against the black walls there were of course changes in fashion , changes of music , changes in drink ; for instance for a couple of years you could get little liqueur glasses of violently alcoholic black coffee with pyramids of whipped cream on top after one of the barstaff had come back from an affair with a real sailor ( or so he said anyway ) in some German port , Germany somewhere . |
| 11 | The important thing to remember , however , is that in many cases no definitive diagnosis can be made until the results have come back from the laboratory and the fact that nothing has been found at the time of the first visit does not mean that the follow-up visit should be missed . |
| 12 | With no casualties to deal with , but with new staff and better equipment our doctors settled down to work with a will for the children from ‘ Peabody buildings ’ at the back of the hospital who had either come back from evacuation , or who would not go anyway . |
| 13 | Not surprisingly , the stars of the night series final were the player who had come back from the World Cup . |
| 14 | On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping . |
| 15 | Right off the bat Dan agreed , detailing this as the one criticism that had come back from American TriAxis users . |
| 16 | Lee had just come back from shopping . |
| 17 | At last week-end 's ICA conference , the film generated a single comment , from a producer on Channel 4 's Out series , Claire Beavan , who had just come back from America where she was making a programme about Hollywood homophobia . |
| 18 | The other , Bath and England B star Audley Lumsden , is just lucky to have his chance , having come back from an horrific , career-threatening broken neck . |
| 19 | And Rodger has only just come back from three weeks ' rehabilitation at Lilleshall . |
| 20 | She remembered that fated evening when she had come back from Wimbledon after seeing Hindley Foster . |
| 21 | Ever since that ghastly winter 's night when she had come back from Wimbledon and said she was pregnant . |
| 22 | ‘ To us , he had come back from the dead , ’ his mother , Camilla Swann , said yesterday . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ On top of all his talent , to have come back from such a serious injury and regain his best form is supremely brave . |
| 24 | And the former Rangers and Aston Villa winger said : ‘ We 've come back from this kind of position before and we are optimistic we can get a result . |
| 25 | Nobody else has come back from town . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He has just come back from Canada and he will go back to Canada . ’ |
| 27 | No British team have ever come back from three goals down in the history of European competition . |
| 28 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 29 | But no , she could not ride tomorrow , her boots had not come back from the shoemaker 's . |
| 30 | ‘ I have just come back from lecturing in New York and I am off to lecture in Hong Kong . |