Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] back " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The story has slipped back to page two , though , I notice . |
| 2 | Mr Dickens 's Datchery has come back , you might say . |
| 3 | You rub your right hand on your left elbow and then move the hand to her ear to see if the coin has come back yet . |
| 4 | Hewlett-Packard Co has swung back on the offensive in the US with a predatory enhanced workstation trade-in programme , which it says accepts the broadest range of workstations , personal computers and X terminals in part exchange for new Precision Architecture RISC workstations and X stations . |
| 5 | The national assembly , up to only a certain period of time , according to the constitution , and then again the parliament has to come back again into the picture . |
| 6 | Recession has brought back racial politics . |
| 7 | probably , a bar with nuts and raisins called raisin natural bar I 'm sorry about loo loosing the keys mum , mum tt the noise has gone the noise has come back by the way |
| 8 | It says , that not only does it save it 's money when it comes to when we 're putting in the tender bids , but actually the profits it makes goes back into the County Council , it has a two- prong saving of averages to this council , and we 've known and seen in the years that it 's been running that money has come back into county council balances , which means that we can have more money to spend on other services . |
| 9 | Our other major domestic market , the distilling industry has come back strongly from the low levels of production of the early 1980s and appears full of optimism , if the huge rise in the share prices of quoted distilling companies is a fair yardstick . |
| 10 | This tape has to go , this tape has to go back . |
| 11 | Which ancestor has come back to us ? ’ |
| 12 | Within the party , the vote has brought back to life a dormant distaste for Mr Salmond and his strategy . |
| 13 | ‘ Salamanca has cut back on its staff , ’ he said . |
| 14 | The US administration has reined back its support from Mrs Aquino after the initial commitment of air support — now widely regarded in Washington as a move which further weakened her authority . |
| 15 | In the 5 years with Maxwell junior at the helm , the club has dropped back into the second division and shows debts of up to £4.5 million . |
| 16 | Speed had dropped back and Wallace moved upwards in the second half . |
| 17 | US officials reportedly expressed concerns that the Soviet side had drawn back from previously agreed elements of the START treaty , and that at the same time it appeared to be adopting a less conciliatory stance on other arms control and disarmament issues , such as the ceiling on troops in Central Europe and the outline of an " Open Skies " treaty agreed in February [ ibid . ] . |
| 18 | His trouser-leg had fallen back , exposing the elasticated suspender circling his diamond-mottled calf . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He felt an immense relief that his nerve had come back , but he also felt ashamed that he had enjoyed the discovery . |
| 21 | Perhaps the train in Aunt Louise 's mind had jumped back on to the rail for a while because it was then , in quite a conversational voice , that she began to speak of her daughter . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Hence the study had to fall back on a proxy for measures of ill health — standardised mortality ratios ( SMRs ) or death rates from different diseases standardised by age . |
| 24 | The men on the fence had disappeared back into the trees . |
| 25 | Rare Bear had fallen back a little . |
| 26 | It did not tell him how many French had crossed the frontier , nor whether blücher was concentrating his army ; all it told him was that a French force had pushed back the Prussian outposts . |
| 27 | It was as if the attacking force had drawn back their battering-ram and steadied it for one final assault . |
| 28 | no I 'm sorry but you ca n't have the cars and bikes out because it 's tea time and you 're going home for your tea , Bryony 's had her hair cut and mummy 's come back there 's look |
| 29 | No Red Rock 's come back . |
| 30 | Sometimes , when writing we repeat a word unknowingly and when we read it again we recognise that our pen has slipped back over old ground : we have not found the right word . |