Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 You should have gone back to the optician when you had the eye infection , as this was clear evidence that there was something wrong .
2 Top flight football should have come back to The Valley .
3 She must have gone back over the cards much later , when she was old .
4 Jon , as he proudly watched the Union Jack raised above his head , must have thought back to the days when , as Oxford University Boat Race president , the only flag he looked at was the skull and crossbones which hung in his study with a menacing message written underneath : ‘ Death Zone — No Prisoners . ’
5 At 133 for 2 , England might have fought back for an honourable draw ; or they might not .
6 But again , see again cos we 're not following the actual script , the picking up and pinpointing people mentioned in earlier conversations , which you would 've done if you 'd 've gone back to the planning the future .
7 We could have gone back to the where we started and then we only paid a couple of hundred pounds a year for the land that they used to keep the grass cut and everything but the problem was really the area .
8 An inch higher and a thought quicker , and he could have climbed back down the rocks vindicated and free , with all his debts paid .
9 He 'd have come back at the weekend , most likely .
10 By that time , the footballers of Halifax Town may have climbed back into the big league .
11 This might include offering a verbal report to a staff meeting or circulating a short written report , asking pupils to identify any pieces of information they would like brought back from the secondment , or giving a talk to a tutor group .
12 In the case of Caloris some of the ejecta from the impact would have fallen back into the basin because of the fairly high surface gravity .
13 Had it not been for another round of cost cutting , the group would have crept back into the black last year .
14 in nineteen eighty nine if I recall there was a divisional structure which er comprised of a number of companies within the division and there was a managing director of that division who would have reported back to the board
15 Moreover , if they were to break through within the established system then they just might be a little less enthusiastic about introducing proportional representation as " a first priority " since it could let one of the parties they would have displaced back into the game .
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