Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British army had come back from Dunkirk with nothing but its rifles . |
| 2 | He had found milk at the ā gri 's house and the old man had come back with him to see if he could be of any use . |
| 3 | He had thought Lehmann had died intestate that his vast fortune had gone back to the Seven . |
| 4 | The Socialist League and the Scottish Socialist Party had gone back to the Labour Party and many members of the Independent Socialist Party were to do so before long . |
| 5 | Tom turns his head in embarrassment and has it explained to him that his regular caddie has gone back to Orville Moody , and I 'm his new one , so he says , ‘ OK ’ , and walks on to the first tee . |
| 6 | ( ANN ) Teachers of the pioneering Peto system for children with cerebral palsy have hit back at the suggestion it may be a waste of money . |
| 7 | Ignoring this , the present Government has cut back on the already poorly resourced Youth Training and Employment Training programme . |
| 8 | All the horror of my childhood experience with the escaped convict had come back to me , just when I thought it was safe to forget it . |
| 9 | And Nicholas had said , ‘ More to the point , will the Turkish fleet have gone back to Gallipoli by then ? |
| 10 | The dark green sun umbrella above them threw shadows across Guy 's face , but she realised that the teasing gleam had crept back into the narrowed gaze . |
| 11 | From a longer-term perspective , it can be said that the number of transactions per day has shown no tendency to increase since the mid-1970s ; there was a surge in total number of transactions during 1987 and 1988 due to a large number of deals between the newly established market makers but both transactions on behalf of customers and intra-market business has fallen back since then . |
| 12 | US officials reportedly expressed concerns that the Soviet side had drawn back from previously agreed elements of the START treaty , and that at the same time it appeared to be adopting a less conciliatory stance on other arms control and disarmament issues , such as the ceiling on troops in Central Europe and the outline of an " Open Skies " treaty agreed in February [ ibid . ] . |
| 13 | Since then , however , their predicted share has slipped back to around 13-15 per cent . |
| 14 | The number of students who have entered chartered accountancy training contracts since the start of the 1992/93 academic year has fallen back to around 1982 levels , according to the Institute . |