Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] back from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea . |
| 2 | At last week-end 's ICA conference , the film generated a single comment , from a producer on Channel 4 's Out series , Claire Beavan , who had just come back from America where she was making a programme about Hollywood homophobia . |
| 3 | Tremayne made more than his usual fuss over Fiona , sensing some sort of turmoil , telling her comfortably that Mackie had just come back from Ascot races where he 'd sent a runner for the apprentice race which had proved a total waste of time . |
| 4 | Lee had just come back from shopping . |
| 5 | Eddie had just got back from work when they had a row in the kitchen . |
| 6 | With no casualties to deal with , but with new staff and better equipment our doctors settled down to work with a will for the children from ‘ Peabody buildings ’ at the back of the hospital who had either come back from evacuation , or who would not go anyway . |