Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hewlett-Packard Co has swung back on the offensive in the US with a predatory enhanced workstation trade-in programme , which it says accepts the broadest range of workstations , personal computers and X terminals in part exchange for new Precision Architecture RISC workstations and X stations . |
| 2 | probably , a bar with nuts and raisins called raisin natural bar I 'm sorry about loo loosing the keys mum , mum tt the noise has gone the noise has come back by the way |
| 3 | In the 5 years with Maxwell junior at the helm , the club has dropped back into the second division and shows debts of up to £4.5 million . |
| 4 | The Gold Coast had fallen back from the situation 50 years earlier when English-educated Africans had played a leading part in administration , Christian leadership , the judiciary and the learned professions . |
| 5 | Shiona had smiled back at the fair-haired youth who had so recently become her brother . |
| 6 | Back inside , Rafiq had gone back to the thousand-dollar question . |
| 7 | Major debt defaults in Mexico and Brazil had prompted a worldwide retreat from international bank lending and the virtual collapse of the syndicated loan market ; since then , unofficial observers estimated that some $45,000 million of net development capital aid had flowed back from the borrowing countries and towards the lenders . |
| 8 | PKK members had attacked a gendarmerie post in Sirnak 's Uludere district , and officials reported that surviving PKK fighters had fled back across the border into Iraq . |
| 9 | As I entered , Miss Kenton had turned back to the window . |
| 10 | At the 18th green Manuel and Andy had walked back to the marked circle . |
| 11 | The men on the fence had disappeared back into the trees . |
| 12 | " That 's O.K. , " said Marion , but by then Sue had gone back into the shop . |
| 13 | Toby had come back for the moment . |
| 14 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 15 | The actor who played Dirty Den in Eastenders has gone back to the prison where he was once an inmate . |
| 16 | Fenella had gone back to the bed-chamber and pulled on her boots and found the warm woollen cloak she had brought from Renascia while Caspar had raided the sculleries and packed the maps . |
| 17 | Turner had faced back towards the exit from the yard , but he hesitated , saying , ‘ I know what your game is , Doyle . |
| 18 | Fergus had fallen back across the table and Taliesin and Fribble both moved to stand between him and the Lad . |
| 19 | Loretta had wandered back into the drawing-room , and was chatting to a classics don who taught at the same college as Bridget . |
| 20 | What was it Graham had said back at the Windorah about Barak ? |
| 21 | Before that the village 's only successful days had occurred back in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when it was a centre of the Basque whaling trade . |
| 22 | Crocker had to fly back to the USA the following day , so there was limited time to convert John Allison with the airshow being held the following day . |
| 23 | Having escorted Felicity Suvarov around St Mark 's cathedral , Julia had gone back to the Danieli hotel and shared some lunch with her . |
| 24 | Thus was sexual liberation defined by an almost exclusively male heterosexual group , drawing on old subversions — Dada , Surrealism , Beat , Situationism — diffused through the mass-market expansion into commercial sex that Playboy had pioneered back in the 1950s . |
| 25 | Helen had scrambled back over the wall . |
| 26 | Her garter belt was a pre-war birthday present , and she wore a pair of the precious nylons that Sylvia had brought back from the States . |
| 27 | Thank you very much I think er councillor said that in er Tory erm motions goes against er Conservative er national policy but what it does identify is a very worrying sub text to the Tory policies of the moment because w means testing for hou for housing welfare has gone back to the worst aspects of the nineteen thirties politics basically . |
| 28 | Glowing with hope , Hank had gone back to the garage and pruned and polished . |
| 29 | The image of the policeman had faded back into the trees , the fear of pursuit was momentarily forgotten as he relived the saga of his escape . |
| 30 | A brief foray on to the upper deck , and Lindsey had retreated back into the warmth . |