Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The mitre template has since come back onto the market , but at prices like £18-£20 and considering the relatively small amount of work in which it is employed , some readers will no doubt feel that they could spend that money more profitably , so will want to make their own .
2 Thomson 's free kick Pearce gets it clear and then won back by Hill but has only gone back to the Forest skipper .
3 A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ .
4 ( In good humour he has already turned back to the mime : the two SPIES awaiting execution at the hands of the PLAYER ) Audiences know what to expect , and that is all that they are prepared to believe in .
5 ‘ Major has now gone back to the animal refuge .
6 The sexual pendulum has now swung back to a more central position , and that 's good news !
7 IBM Corp has now fallen back on the reliable method of pre-announcement for its OS/2 promotion campaign .
8 It has now reverted back to a quiet village , disturbed only at weekends by visitors from surrounding areas who come to fish , walk the frontage and watch the departure or arrival of passenger ferries and other shipping .
9 Now effectively shy of two of those founders , it has essentially retracted back to a die-hard core of some two dozen companies from a highly publicised swell of some 250 industry lights .
10 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 .
11 ‘ You 'd better come back in the house and dry your shoes and socks , ’ said Betty .
12 But I think they 'd just gone back for the money creed and once you get that well erm they do n't realize that they could be falling into the trap unless we blokes stand firm now to maintain this standard of living .
13 The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners !
14 It was fortunate that they 'd both driven back to the farmhouse after leaving the nightclub , before carrying on to the forest in Adam 's car , so her own vehicle was parked outside in the courtyard .
15 A.Q. : Towards five-thirty this morning , having just got back from the flower market , I was working in the front quarters of my shop when I got the idea I 'd heard a funny noise just outside the window …
16 Usually , what with shooting and swimming with the others and riding up at Biddy 's , he had only got back to the garden shed in time to flake out until morning .
17 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 . ’
18 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 .
19 ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’
20 I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped
21 ‘ 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 .
22 The educated classes had just stood back as the aspiring politician and the over-eager Methodist forced the showmen into a reliance on the melodramatic and the romantic .
23 When she had finished she turned to Nara , who had just come back with the things she needed and was peering round the door , as if he was too scared of her magic to come right in .
24 The three other members of the crew had just come back to the pump — we were doing " series pumping " — they had brought me a bottle of beer and I was taking a swig .
25 ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity .
26 Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back .
27 By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel .
28 By the Middle Ages the river had gradually cut back through the neck of land at this side of the rise , until it cut right through to where it runs now .
29 The majority of these had probably escaped back across the marsh , they thought ; indeed many had never been engaged .
30 In the pasture behind Sharpe the Prussian horsemen were making a line to face the remaining Dragoons who , outnumbered , had cautiously pulled back towards the skyline .
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