Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] back [prep] the " 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 | ( 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Major has now gone back to the animal refuge . |
| 5 | IBM Corp has now fallen back on the reliable method of pre-announcement for its OS/2 promotion campaign . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ You 'd better come back in the house and dry your shoes and socks , ’ said Betty . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The majority of these had probably escaped back across the marsh , they thought ; indeed many had never been engaged . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He had used the rest buying drinks to console himself and had then staggered back to the flat for the night . |
| 24 | She had never gone back to the beach . |
| 25 | The trouble was that Deborah had never come back through the wood before , only the one way — to Pack Meetings . |
| 26 | ‘ They have had their ins and outs and have all got back into the side , ’ he says . |
| 27 | There is a dusting of snow in Cwm Glas Mawr and above , while clouds have just rolled back from the summit ridge . |
| 28 | She promised to find out , and she 's just come back with the results . |
| 29 | An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand . |