Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pers pn] back [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 At the end of the bed was a small card-table which Changez bought for her as a wedding present ; I 'd carried it back from a local junk shop .
2 I 'd taken her back with a woolly suit , mitts , hat , booties , everything , in the middle of July .
3 The word ‘ humanity ’ borrowed some of its force from the 1959 approach , but the rest of the definition would have taken us back to a test of manners based on an assumption of consensus which is at worst suspect and at best unproven , but which is to be measured only by outrage , surely an irrational and wholly subjective response .
4 Yeah , well I 've still got the other two but I do n't know whether Brian and Pauline are going to want them back , I mean they 've just , I 've had them back for a craft fair .
5 A past boyfriend had brought it back from a holiday near Genoa .
6 He had forced her back against a closed door , literally and metaphorically .
7 His arrival had jolted me back into a proper appreciation of my problems , which I 'd pushed aside in my enjoyment of Mala 's warmer mood .
8 Oh it 's tied up a somebody 's tied it back with a piece of string .
9 Oxfordshire have wanted it back as a site to open up to a much wider public , it 's not very suitable for a prison anyway , certainly since local government reorganisation in 1974 and they have plans for making use of it if and when it comes back to the county
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