Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I c I I 've seen so many things over the year I just do n't believe it until I actually see it and th literally four weeks ago , I 'd just got back from Germany , went on a meeting the following morning and it 's that gentleman there , Steve , and h he 's got some pictures in his pocket which will prove exactly what we 're talking about . |
| 2 | That was er I 'd just got back from work . |
| 3 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |
| 4 | Er then he made the I 'd better cut back to the business card because you jumped into the statement of purpose erm you assum er there was an assumed er was okay erm I put superb and I ca n't remember what that actually was there . |
| 5 | I felt , by doing that , I had effectively stepped back in time and discovered the one thing that should have been thought of before we even harnessed electricity . |
| 6 | I thought of the most dedicated cricket fanatic I had ever known back in South Africa — a man who despite repeated heart attacks , doctors ' warnings and family entreaties to stop playing the game , had persisted with club cricket to the end , in his sixties diving after slip catches as recklessly as he had in his teens . |
| 7 | I suppose , by saying this I 've already gone back on my word . |
| 8 | In fact , I 've just flown back from the States today , and you 'll be glad to hear that the doctors assured me that Liz and Owen are on the road to a full recovery . ’ |
| 9 | I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here . |
| 10 | No I 've just come back to it and I find my lunch box overflowing with crisp packets . |
| 11 | I 've I 've just come back on that D two stop three . |
| 12 | I 've just come back from France . |
| 13 | ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’ |
| 15 | I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped |
| 16 | I 've just got back to England . |
| 17 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 18 | ‘ I have just come back from lecturing in New York and I am off to lecture in Hong Kong . |
| 19 | ‘ I have just come back from talking to Alfred and I telephoned Maurice . ’ |
| 20 | Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't know , ’ he went on , ‘ that you 'd already gone back to England . |
| 22 | ‘ You 'd better come back in the house and dry your shoes and socks , ’ said Betty . |
| 23 | What about Timo Metsola 's electronics outfit in Finland — where you 've just flown back from ? |
| 24 | ‘ You 've just got back from Rhodes , we hear . ’ |
| 25 | Neither the size of the orchestras nor the size of the stage seems to have deterred you from staging major works by Verdi — Un ballo in maschera , for instance , which you 've now come back to after fifty years — Wagner , and Strauss . |
| 26 | Agnes had taken a smaller one ; she had just got back from her service 's registry . |
| 27 | Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea . |
| 28 | In the silence of the return journey she had almost slipped back to tranquillity and , oddly enough , it had helped to have him there beside her . |
| 29 | She had never gone back to the beach . |
| 30 | It all hurt , but at least she had now got back at him , and she did n't have to see his face to know he was furious . |