Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] back [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping . |
| 2 | ‘ He has just come back from Canada and he will go back to Canada . ’ |
| 3 | Pierre Berton , who wrote the books , has just got back from Vancouver . |
| 4 | One of the men has already come back to Britain voluntarily , the older one is fighting extradition |
| 5 | Mia has now flown back to America with the one-year-old dog , which she has named Tip because it came from Co Tipperary . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't know , ’ he went on , ‘ that you 'd already gone back to England . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Since he had not come back to Møn he must be dead — there could be no other explanation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I 've just come back from France . |
| 14 | Oh Well we 've just come back from America we 've been in America for three years . |
| 15 | And camping We 've just come back from Cornwall and it was very wet . |
| 16 | I 've just got back to England . |
| 17 | ‘ You 've just got back from Rhodes , we hear . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We 've just got back from Southampton , ’ said my mother , as though this circumstance presented a total barrier to further movement . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ When I realised the ring had probably gone back to England that was one of the first things I checked . ’ |
| 25 | Consequently , when he had found suitable accommodation , his wife and children had also gone back to England . |
| 26 | Maybe the girl had n't reported back to Myeloski , told him that she had failed to seduce him . |
| 27 | I was quite sure of that for my father had again gone back to Rye marshes to reinforce the defences . |
| 28 | ‘ As I heard it , my lord , he 's already gone back to Hereford . ’ |
| 29 | A sentence such as John and his friend have just come back from New York can be used to illustrate an insertion task . |
| 30 | John and his friend have just come back from New York , you know . |