Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It says , that not only does it save it 's money when it comes to when we 're putting in the tender bids , but actually the profits it makes goes back into the County Council , it has a two- prong saving of averages to this council , and we 've known and seen in the years that it 's been running that money has come back into county council balances , which means that we can have more money to spend on other services .
2 Some colour had come back into Jennifer 's face .
3 The granddaughter I look after because my , my daugh youngest daughter 's gone back to work .
4 The British army had come back from Dunkirk with nothing but its rifles .
5 He had found milk at the ā gri 's house and the old man had come back with him to see if he could be of any use .
6 He had thought Lehmann had died intestate that his vast fortune had gone back to the Seven .
7 The father pleaded with the elder brother and tried to point out to him that it was only right to celebrate for it was as if the younger son had come back to life from the dead .
8 The Socialist League and the Scottish Socialist Party had gone back to the Labour Party and many members of the Independent Socialist Party were to do so before long .
9 Tom turns his head in embarrassment and has it explained to him that his regular caddie has gone back to Orville Moody , and I 'm his new one , so he says , ‘ OK ’ , and walks on to the first tee .
10 ( ANN ) Teachers of the pioneering Peto system for children with cerebral palsy have hit back at the suggestion it may be a waste of money .
11 Ignoring this , the present Government has cut back on the already poorly resourced Youth Training and Employment Training programme .
12 All the horror of my childhood experience with the escaped convict had come back to me , just when I thought it was safe to forget it .
13 And Nicholas had said , ‘ More to the point , will the Turkish fleet have gone back to Gallipoli by then ?
14 She says one boy has gone back to bed wetting because he 's so worried .
15 He responded first by contributing to Leeds ' second goal , scored by Chapman three minutes from the end after his first shot had come back to him off a post , and then with that spectacular coup de grace .
16 The dark green sun umbrella above them threw shadows across Guy 's face , but she realised that the teasing gleam had crept back into the narrowed gaze .
17 From a longer-term perspective , it can be said that the number of transactions per day has shown no tendency to increase since the mid-1970s ; there was a surge in total number of transactions during 1987 and 1988 due to a large number of deals between the newly established market makers but both transactions on behalf of customers and intra-market business has fallen back since then .
18 US officials reportedly expressed concerns that the Soviet side had drawn back from previously agreed elements of the START treaty , and that at the same time it appeared to be adopting a less conciliatory stance on other arms control and disarmament issues , such as the ceiling on troops in Central Europe and the outline of an " Open Skies " treaty agreed in February [ ibid . ] .
19 Since then , however , their predicted share has slipped back to around 13-15 per cent .
20 A MOTHER who tragically lost two daughters in separate accidents last night told how her third daughter has fought back from the brink of death .
21 The number of students who have entered chartered accountancy training contracts since the start of the 1992/93 academic year has fallen back to around 1982 levels , according to the Institute .
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