Example sentences of "have [vb pp] back from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who has visited a newspaper office in the last five years with expectations from cinematic memories of Citizen Kane or who has struggled back from the newsagent on a Sunday morning with a sample of what is laughably offered as a ‘ leisurely read ’ will know that much has changed . |
| 2 | In 1856 he exhibits on his lawn a stuffed crocodile he has brought back from the East : enabling it to bask in the sun again for the first time in 3,000 years . |
| 3 | THE 18-month-old Young Vic Youth Theatre has fought back from the threat of funds-starved closure to launch new season with Brecht and Weill 's The Threepenny Opera . |
| 4 | A MOTHER who tragically lost two daughters in separate accidents last night told how her third daughter has fought back from the brink of death . |
| 5 | A garden tractor company has bounced back from the brink of bankruptcy to become a market leader … despite the recession . |
| 6 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 7 | The Gold Coast had fallen back from the situation 50 years earlier when English-educated Africans had played a leading part in administration , Christian leadership , the judiciary and the learned professions . |
| 8 | The problem pupils who 've come back from the brink . |
| 9 | So get in the old shed and then we got a load of swedes , we put it in rack and we come out like chips , chips of raw swede , and then sugar beet pulp , which had come back from the factory . |
| 10 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 11 | On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping . |
| 12 | he had come back from the meeting with Patrick , and he had opened a bottle of whisky … automatically his had reached for it , found it between his legs , and he was raising it to his lips when the hurried knocking shook the door again . |
| 13 | Not surprisingly , the stars of the night series final were the player who had come back from the World Cup . |
| 14 | On the real occasion , Comfort had arrived back from the river and had stood in front of them both , her blonde hair a mass of tangled curls , each curl spangled with water . |
| 15 | Johnson 's forces had pulled back from the centre at the request of Dogonyaro . |
| 16 | Major debt defaults in Mexico and Brazil had prompted a worldwide retreat from international bank lending and the virtual collapse of the syndicated loan market ; since then , unofficial observers estimated that some $45,000 million of net development capital aid had flowed back from the borrowing countries and towards the lenders . |
| 17 | They should also be in frequent contact with all of the somewhat numerous organisations involved in the rural development of the Western Isles , and with the admirable young people who have come back from the mainland to work at the grass-roots level . |
| 18 | I mean , I know that a lot of the calls they get are practical , people have come back from the Gulf with no money , no home , I mean they 've lived there for years and years and years , without the family network sometimes to keep them going , or friends , friends , they 've , they 've lost all of their , and it 's , it 's not easy . |
| 19 | The important thing to remember , however , is that in many cases no definitive diagnosis can be made until the results have come back from the laboratory and the fact that nothing has been found at the time of the first visit does not mean that the follow-up visit should be missed . |