Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] 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 | Had n't everything gone wrong from the moment she had come back to Eastlake ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Next day they had gone back with ropes and a book on rock-climbing from the library to teach themselves about knots . |
| 6 | The previous day he had started back to work , to be followed by this front-page exclusive . |
| 7 | ’ On the north-east corner he asked for a castellated bell tower in which to house the bell he had brought back from Lille . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When she 'd closed the case he had sunk back on the pillow , a thin smile on his face , his lips tinged with yellow . |
| 11 | Show Jackie in a minute all that guff about laughter Michael 's chest he 's got back of his . |
| 12 | Vic Norman ( left ) and Torquil Norman take a moment to pause and reflect on the aerodrome they have brought back to life . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The way he had fought back from that position showed that the grit demonstrated in all those celluloid heroes was not just acting . |
| 15 | time we 've come back with a need-to-be-paid is n't it ? |
| 16 | By the time he had arrived back at the Hotel Colombi he had decided . |
| 17 | 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 . |