Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [been] [vb pp] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've just been driven back from Covent Garden and I want to get to bed . |
| 2 | The new conventional wisdom which divides the young old from the old old at 75 marks a boundary for entry into the last stage of life which has now been pushed back by a dozen years . |
| 3 | ‘ She has only been flown back a month ago from the near east . |
| 4 | Command of the main army was entrusted for the moment to a veteran Huguenot general , Sir John [ later first Earl of ] Ligonier , aged 65 , who had also been called back from the Continent , though it was understood he would become subordinate to Cumberland as soon as the latter was ready to take over . |
| 5 | Everything has always been referred back to mother . |
| 6 | It was therefore with great irritation that I noticed a day or two later that they had all been moved back to the ‘ General Interest ’ section . |
| 7 | Only municipal socialism offered any coherent alternative , but this was limited by its restriction to the local level ; the balance of power went against it and it has now been thrown back . |
| 8 | It meant he had finally been accepted back into the Royal fold after being stripped of his OBE when he was jailed for tax evasion . |