Example sentences of "my [noun sg] have [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes I 'm waiting , my wife 's gone back to be tempted |
| 2 | Yeah , I I 've well that makes a change you know I mean some of my stuff 's come back from them and I 've wondered whether they 've read it . |
| 3 | My husband gave me the news that my father had died back in the village . |
| 4 | Television came in the wake of other consumer durables : a vacuum cleaner and a boiler for the washing — once used to cook a lobster my father has brought back from the Highlands where he 's been on a spell of painting stations that will be closed by the Beeching plan a decade later . |
| 5 | He told the doctors all about how my dad had come back to life in this grey cardigan and had told him the secrets of the universe . |