Example sentences of "have [verb] back [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bewildered , she felt as if she 'd stepped back into a dark cave and was falling into the unknown . |
| 2 | The other , Bath and England B star Audley Lumsden , is just lucky to have his chance , having come back from an horrific , career-threatening broken neck . |
| 3 | At 133 for 2 , England might have fought back for an honourable draw ; or they might not . |
| 4 | Now talk some more and let me hear whether you 've come back with an American accent . " |
| 5 | I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen . |
| 6 | Last weekend she had gone home to visit her parents , and had come back with a huge bag crammed with brightly wrapped parcels from her mother and father , her three older , married sisters , and all the nieces and nephews they had produced between them . |
| 7 | She had drawn back from a direct confrontation again , Guy realised . |
| 8 | Erlich came close to her , kneeling on the rug he knew that Harry had brought back from a fast run to Beirut . |
| 9 | She had swayed back into an upright position and reverted to a tone of easy confidence . |
| 10 | Saussure , third on Mont Blanc , had to turn back from a surveying expedition when his 17 guides mutinied , throwing his food down the mountain ! |
| 11 | Fergus had gone back into a deep sleep . |
| 12 | I felt I had stepped back into a thirties ' film and that in the morning , when we went down into the bar for café au lait , Arletty and Jean Gabin would be leaning on the zinc counter . |
| 13 | Once again Congress had struck back against an overweening executive branch . |
| 14 | Slowly but inevitably they had drifted back into a loving relationship , culminating three months ago in their engagement . |
| 15 | You have come back in a funny mood . |
| 16 | Conservationists have gone back to an ancient method of catching ducks , using a dog to lure the birds into a net . |