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

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1 A recruitment committee is to be formed to provide jobs for players and Greville Edwards has been invited back as a commission-only commercial manager to revive the sponsorship and hospitality income .
2 It has been sent back with a frosty message from one of his constituents , who is unidentified .
3 The restaurant has been turned back into a house — little expense spared and the quality of work by the local joiner is superb , no other word for it .
4 In fishing this literally means that the catching sector has been forced back into a more primitive , earlier phase .
5 Business has been held back by a combination of recession and tough environmental laws but the drive is on to recover lost sales volume .
6 Within minutes the car was free , and before I could thank the young farmer I 'd been invited back for a cup of tea and some hot broth .
7 This was something that Picasso had also conveyed in the necks of the Horta figures , where the area between the projecting tendons appears to have been cut back into a deep recess .
8 And the overall engineering figures seemed to have been held back by a ten per cent drop in the fourth quarter , pulling it down to the overall UK trend for the year of minus five per cent .
9 One unguarded remark by Byrkin , one remark that had been carried back by a man with innocence on his face to those who would judge Byrkin .
10 Rostov saw that his hair had been drawn back into a neat queue which had been tied with ribbon then folded decoratively forward across the top of his head .
11 Dalgliesh found himself wondering if it had been brought back from a school trip to the capital .
12 Huge waves have been swept back into a movie star style .
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