Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have [adv] [vb pp] back " in BNC.

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1 What about Timo Metsola 's electronics outfit in Finland — where you 've just flown back from ?
2 ‘ I did n't know , ’ he went on , ‘ that you 'd already gone back to England .
3 It was fortunate that they 'd both driven back to the farmhouse after leaving the nightclub , before carrying on to the forest in Adam 's car , so her own vehicle was parked outside in the courtyard .
4 They did work in er two worked in two different quarries but within a week or a fortnight that young lad approached one of our members and said he 's sorry that he 'd ever gone back and I said to him well come back and join us and forget it all .
5 And since Jack Walker got involved , I suppose my form has followed the fortunes of the club , and I 've never looked back . ’
6 And I 've never looked back . ’
7 ‘ People are always trying to put me down and I have always come back better . ’
8 He possessed a basic human right and she had already held back too long .
9 Eddie had cut away most of his thin nondescript hair , cropping it close to the skull , and she had also cut back the hair on his forehead , giving him a pronounced widow 's peak .
10 She promised to find out , and she 's just come back with the results .
11 CATHERINE Robbie , if you 've just come back here to give me a fright because of something that happened ages ago , you 're mad .
12 Yes I just wanted to say that , can I just say that within about three days of coming off the drug , all my symptoms of feeling violent , murderous , suicidal completely disappeared and they 've never come back since , and all I 've had since then is a dose of vitamin B six every day .
13 But I have always drawn back .
14 She had emigrated with half her family to England when a baby , but they had all come back the night an auntie 's house in Derry had been seen on TV news , with the sofa flying from an upstairs window and loyalist thugs pouring petrol on the geraniums .
15 But they 've then gone back and .
16 ‘ My family were Huguenots , my lady , and therefore unwanted in la belle France , ’ D'Alembord 's contemptuous scorn for France made the Countess bridle , but he had already turned back to Lucille .
17 My head shook as though I 'd just knocked back some hundred-proof whisky .
18 As he had finally got back to Mrs Lorimer 's and was washing his face , he was wondering how much of the dirty water of the drug scene had washed over Rose and Steve .
19 He was glad Rebel had gone off towards the road , though he had probably run back by now for the loaf .
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