Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] back [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping . |
| 3 | ‘ He has just come back from Canada and he will go back to Canada . ’ |
| 4 | Pierre Berton , who wrote the books , has just got back from Vancouver . |
| 5 | One of the men has already come back to Britain voluntarily , the older one is fighting extradition |
| 6 | Mia has now flown back to America with the one-year-old dog , which she has named Tip because it came from Co Tipperary . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That was er I 'd just got back from work . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't know , ’ he went on , ‘ that you 'd already gone back to England . |
| 10 | By Paul Byrne chief reporter A GROUP of British Rail workers who were being paid thousands of pounds to do nothing have finally gone back to work . |
| 11 | Having recently came back from canoeing in Austria where canoeists , fishermen and landowners all enjoy what nature has provided , it certainly dates what canoeists have to put up with in parts of this country . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ My family were Huguenots , my lady , and therefore unwanted in la belle France , ’ D'Alembord 's contemptuous scorn for France made the Countess bridle , but he had already turned back to Lucille . |
| 14 | Tommaso had not come back at Ascension , though some others who 'd been called to military service at the same time walked into town one afternoon . |
| 15 | Since he had not come back to Møn he must be dead — there could be no other explanation . |
| 16 | Others present included Lord David Cecil , who had lately come back to Oxford to teach English Literature at New College , and Adam Fox , the college chaplain . |
| 17 | We 've just come back from Chile , where chemical pollution , factory fishing , and poverty are the everyday reality facing fishermen , slowly destroying their ability to make a living and support their families . |
| 18 | I 've just come back from France . |
| 19 | Oh Well we 've just come back from America we 've been in America for three years . |
| 20 | And camping We 've just come back from Cornwall and it was very wet . |
| 21 | I 've just got back to England . |
| 22 | ‘ You 've just got back from Rhodes , we hear . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We 've just got back from Southampton , ’ said my mother , as though this circumstance presented a total barrier to further movement . |
| 24 | Well it , it 's been stupid this laid on this settee falling down back , it 's blinking ridiculous , yeah , we 've just got back from hospital and they 'll send her a letter for er , to make an appointment for her to go back , to see what the treatment they 're gon na give her , so , will it go in Pete 's car ? |
| 25 | As he had finally got back to Mrs Lorimer 's and was washing his face , he was wondering how much of the dirty water of the drug scene had washed over Rose and Steve . |
| 26 | Sandra had just arrived back in time to hear Mrs Foster 's grim assessment of the situation . |
| 27 | Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea . |
| 28 | At last week-end 's ICA conference , the film generated a single comment , from a producer on Channel 4 's Out series , Claire Beavan , who had just come back from America where she was making a programme about Hollywood homophobia . |
| 29 | Tremayne made more than his usual fuss over Fiona , sensing some sort of turmoil , telling her comfortably that Mackie had just come back from Ascot races where he 'd sent a runner for the apprentice race which had proved a total waste of time . |
| 30 | Lee had just come back from shopping . |