Example sentences of "[noun] have [vb pp] back [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Osaka has fought back with a splurge of infrastructure projects , most notably a new international airport perched upon a man-made island . |
| 2 | Traders have hit back with a T shirt campaign , warning town shoppers and town planners alike of what they see as a threat to the very fabric of the town centre . |
| 3 | Mark Frost has gone back as a bowler , though of course he could come again . |
| 4 | Fergus had gone back into a deep sleep . |
| 5 | THE QE2 's owners Cunard have hit back after a US federal review board blamed confusion and poor communication for the world 's largest liner running aground off the US east coast last summer . |
| 6 | They drank whisky and cider , watched pornogrhapic videos that the teacher had brought back from a holiday in Germany . |
| 7 | Meh'Lindi had darted back into a service tunnel and was decamping as fast as could be , cradling Grimm who was wailing like a baby . |
| 8 | Erlich came close to her , kneeling on the rug he knew that Harry had brought back from a fast run to Beirut . |
| 9 | OR when a gate has swung back on a horse rapping its knees or trapping its foot . |
| 10 | Frankenstein had slumped back against a tree-trunk for support , his head lolling back as if he were about to collapse in a faint . |
| 11 | In her latest novel , Jazz , Toni Morrison has dipped back into a time before cross-over , when African-American music was all-black , in her quest for a uniquely black literary language . |
| 12 | Jenny 's come back in a couple of minutes . |
| 13 | In my babyhood , he had asked the great Australian centre Dave Brown to let me be photographed with an enormous stuffed lion Brown had brought back from a Kangaroo tour of Great Britain . |
| 14 | Shares have slipped back from a high of 440p and a lot of the blame lies with its US offshoot Keebler . |
| 15 | THE Tories have fallen back on a quack cure for the economic ills they are forcing upon our country — even higher prescription charges . |