Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] have [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the losses and a circulation that has fallen back to 540,000 , in third place in the race behind the Sunday Times and The Sunday Telegraph , a premium price could not be expected . |
| 2 | To crown it all , I now read in my newspaper that we are living in ‘ the post-feminist era ’ which I take to mean either that the battle is won — a view informed by the same kind of stupidity which once encouraged Macmillan to proclaim ‘ we 're all middle-class now ’ — or that feminism is a spent force and has slipped back into obscurity for another sixty years of oblivion . |
| 3 | Tossing this first layer of skin aside , he attempted to burrow deeper , only to discover yet more skin , though whether this was the outer skin that had slithered back through his advancing fingers , or a whole new layer was not apparent , but it was pretty clear that finding her windpipe , let alone getting hands round it and squeezing it , was a two-person job . |
| 4 | But with part of her mind — the part that had stood back from their embrace — she was dimly aware that she had almost wanted to believe the worst . |
| 5 | And she might have accepted that but for the wry flicker in the eyes of the reflection that had looked back at her from the bathroom mirror . |
| 6 | ‘ You look like a corpse that 's come back to life again . |
| 7 | Right off the bat Dan agreed , detailing this as the one criticism that had come back from American TriAxis users . |
| 8 | When he caught up with the spectators following the last match he picked up the information that had filtered back through the crowd 's grapevine . |
| 9 | He drew off some fluid and relieved the pressure , then went back to the office , where he shook his head gloomily as he pored over the report that had come back with her from Seapark . |
| 10 | Only to find , first , that genuinely ill as he was , he had missed the local paper saying the psychopath had been caught , and that the compulsive liar Brenda had been telling everyone he was her lover , a rumour that had got back to his wife whose mac he had by mistake worn during the murder and had been unable to destroy . |
| 11 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |