Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [vb pp] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Shiona had smiled back at the fair-haired youth who had so recently become her brother .
2 Back inside , Rafiq had gone back to the thousand-dollar question .
3 As I entered , Miss Kenton had turned back to the window .
4 At the 18th green Manuel and Andy had walked back to the marked circle .
5 " That 's O.K. , " said Marion , but by then Sue had gone back into the shop .
6 Toby had come back for the moment .
7 Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty .
8 Fenella had gone back to the bed-chamber and pulled on her boots and found the warm woollen cloak she had brought from Renascia while Caspar had raided the sculleries and packed the maps .
9 Turner had faced back towards the exit from the yard , but he hesitated , saying , ‘ I know what your game is , Doyle .
10 Fergus had fallen back across the table and Taliesin and Fribble both moved to stand between him and the Lad .
11 Fergus had gone back into a deep sleep .
12 Loretta had wandered back into the drawing-room , and was chatting to a classics don who taught at the same college as Bridget .
13 What was it Graham had said back at the Windorah about Barak ?
14 Having escorted Felicity Suvarov around St Mark 's cathedral , Julia had gone back to the Danieli hotel and shared some lunch with her .
15 Thus was sexual liberation defined by an almost exclusively male heterosexual group , drawing on old subversions — Dada , Surrealism , Beat , Situationism — diffused through the mass-market expansion into commercial sex that Playboy had pioneered back in the 1950s .
16 Helen had scrambled back over the wall .
17 Her garter belt was a pre-war birthday present , and she wore a pair of the precious nylons that Sylvia had brought back from the States .
18 Meh'Lindi had darted back into a service tunnel and was decamping as fast as could be , cradling Grimm who was wailing like a baby .
19 Glowing with hope , Hank had gone back to the garage and pruned and polished .
20 A brief foray on to the upper deck , and Lindsey had retreated back into the warmth .
21 Jessamy had run back into the house .
22 Erlich came close to her , kneeling on the rug he knew that Harry had brought back from a fast run to Beirut .
23 Daak had jumped back into the cabin .
24 On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping .
25 Frye had moved back to the windows again , to watch Duvall and Pearce battling their way through the storm to the car wreck .
26 Bertha had sat back with the satisfied air of having played a trump card , until suddenly her lip had quivered as tears filled her eyes .
27 But Steve had gone back to the match , his face rigid with anticipation .
28 Frankenstein had slumped back against a tree-trunk for support , his head lolling back as if he were about to collapse in a faint .
29 Then they 'd returned to the stable and George had got back to the House about midnight .
30 Sandra had come back into the room , and somehow she was at Matthew 's side , holding his hand and weeping .
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