Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York . |
| 2 | When Angel One had reported back to Dragon Control early on the day following the destruction of his Bethlehem House base , the Controller had been unable to keep the malicious satisfaction out of his voice when he had berated him for his ignominious failure , as he put it , in allowing his entire organisation to be destroyed by unforeseen enemy action . |
| 3 | Had n't everything gone wrong from the moment she had come back to Eastlake ? |
| 4 | On Wednesday , he swallowed his pride , banked Dysart 's cheque and purchased a car with most of what remained from the cash he had brought back from Rhodes . |
| 5 | Any white spirit would do for him , he was n't fussy , and he poured himself a stiff vodka , some of that Polish stuff they had brought back from their Black Sea summer holiday . |
| 6 | Next day they had gone back with ropes and a book on rock-climbing from the library to teach themselves about knots . |
| 7 | The previous day he had started back to work , to be followed by this front-page exclusive . |
| 8 | Receptionist who has moved back to Newcastle following her husband 's transfer from the computer centre to in Durham . |
| 9 | ’ On the north-east corner he asked for a castellated bell tower in which to house the bell he had brought back from Lille . |
| 10 | Well at various times in my life I 've come back to Kingston and I first of all used to see peo girls who were at school with me . |
| 11 | She made it her rule that Belfast , the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army , casual atrocities never crossed her lips , not after his last trip away , because the man who had come back to her from Northern Ireland had been frightened of his own shadow . |
| 12 | He 'd stayed there ( ‘ in Didcart ’ ) much longer than he 'd intended ; and when finally he tore himself away from the Cornish Riviera and the Torbay Express he 'd walked back to Didcot Parkway Station at about five o'clock , and caught the next train back to Oxford , where he 'd , er , where he 'd had a quick drink in the Station Buffet . |
| 13 | When she 'd closed the case he had sunk back on the pillow , a thin smile on his face , his lips tinged with yellow . |
| 14 | Show Jackie in a minute all that guff about laughter Michael 's chest he 's got back of his . |
| 15 | The girl in the mirror was a total contrast to the haunted image which had stared back at her a few hours earlier . |
| 16 | I mean I have gone to the trouble , I have been in to see the planning officer that 's dealing with it , erm I 've written to every single member of the planning committee , I 've written to the Environmental Health who have written back to me saying they offer no objections and there because the smell wo n't be a problem so I 've written them back another stinking letter and saying well erm |
| 17 | Vic Norman ( left ) and Torquil Norman take a moment to pause and reflect on the aerodrome they have brought back to life . |
| 18 | WHEN Norman Lamont opens his battered old red box on Tuesday , his action will signal the end of a tradition which has stretched back at least two centuries . |
| 19 | In 1856 he exhibits on his lawn a stuffed crocodile he has brought back from the East : enabling it to bask in the sun again for the first time in 3,000 years . |
| 20 | The way he had fought back from that position showed that the grit demonstrated in all those celluloid heroes was not just acting . |
| 21 | In 1981 , for example , a jockey who had fought back from the depths of cancer partnered a horse which had twice spent months with a hind leg in plaster . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly , the stars of the night series final were the player who had come back from the World Cup . |
| 23 | time we 've come back with a need-to-be-paid is n't it ? |
| 24 | By the time he had arrived back at the Hotel Colombi he had decided . |
| 25 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |