Example sentences of "have [vb pp] back [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has come back with a bang , and the film of Jurassic Park opens in July , which will obviously help his sales . |
| 2 | In her latest novel , Jazz , Toni Morrison has dipped back into a time before cross-over , when African-American music was all-black , in her quest for a uniquely black literary language . |
| 3 | Mark Frost has gone back as a bowler , though of course he could come again . |
| 4 | OR when a gate has swung back on a horse rapping its knees or trapping its foot . |
| 5 | Osaka has fought back with a splurge of infrastructure projects , most notably a new international airport perched upon a man-made island . |
| 6 | He did n't feel up to the mildest of rebuffs from her ; he seemed to have gone back to a relationship like an adolescent infatuation , reading rejection in the most innocent of her actions . |
| 7 | time we 've come back with a need-to-be-paid is n't it ? |
| 8 | They had come back as a fleet , their sails bellying out under the south-westerly gale , the men shouting to each other across the water to compare catches , and their womenfolk waiting on the beach to help with the unloading and to make a start on the gutting and salting and packing . |
| 9 | Frankenstein had slumped back against a tree-trunk for support , his head lolling back as if he were about to collapse in a faint . |
| 10 | Of course that is n't really allowed , but once you 've got back as a ghost , there 's not much anybody can do to stop you . |
| 11 | He is said to have one of the fastest services in Britain and his game proved too powerful for Tony Marti who had hurried back from a league match to play him . |
| 12 | They drank whisky and cider , watched pornogrhapic videos that the teacher had brought back from a holiday in Germany . |
| 13 | In my babyhood , he had asked the great Australian centre Dave Brown to let me be photographed with an enormous stuffed lion Brown had brought back from a Kangaroo tour of Great Britain . |
| 14 | It was a blue-and-white pottery bowl Peter 's mother , Kitty , had brought back from a timeshare holiday with a friend in southern Spain . |
| 15 | Meh'Lindi had darted back into a service tunnel and was decamping as fast as could be , cradling Grimm who was wailing like a baby . |
| 16 | THE Tories have fallen back on a quack cure for the economic ills they are forcing upon our country — even higher prescription charges . |
| 17 | He 's come back with a report on the rest of the china and food too . |
| 18 | Jenny 's come back in a couple of minutes . |
| 19 | We have slipped back to a state of affairs which would be intolerable even in Naples . ’ |
| 20 | Shares have slipped back from a high of 440p and a lot of the blame lies with its US offshoot Keebler . |
| 21 | Traders have hit back with a T shirt campaign , warning town shoppers and town planners alike of what they see as a threat to the very fabric of the town centre . |
| 22 | THE QE2 's owners Cunard have hit back after a US federal review board blamed confusion and poor communication for the world 's largest liner running aground off the US east coast last summer . |