Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] back in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Sandra had just arrived back in time to hear Mrs Foster 's grim assessment of the situation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Four British Muslims freed by Saddam Hussein from captivity in Iraq , have just arrived back in England , the wife of one of them says she 's overjoyed at the news . |
| 5 | We have also reached back in time , using memories of grandparents from more than 600 interviews and autobiographies , to try to sense how later life may have changed over two or more centuries . |