Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have just come back from lecturing in New York and I am off to lecture in Hong Kong . |
| 2 | ‘ I have just come back from talking to Alfred and I telephoned Maurice . ’ |
| 3 | We have also reached back in time , using memories of grandparents from more than 600 interviews and autobiographies , to try to sense how later life may have changed over two or more centuries . |
| 4 | Gail , who is also looking forward to the birth of her first baby in November , said : ‘ We have just come back from two wet weeks in Bournemouth and said we could do with spoiling ourselves with a stay in a luxury hotel then I was told I had won — it 's amazing. , ’ |
| 5 | We have simultaneously slipped back into a compromising embrace with the very form of instrumental utilitarianism which got the world into such a mess in the first place : that things are of value because they are of value to us , not because they are of value in themselves . |