Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scottish Homes has brought back into use 1,000 units that it has helped to create in the past two years . |
| 2 | Her mouth was open and her eyes had rolled back . |
| 3 | PKK members had attacked a gendarmerie post in Sirnak 's Uludere district , and officials reported that surviving PKK fighters had fled back across the border into Iraq . |
| 4 | As Gower tried to bury the misery of rejection in the preparations for his wedding to Thorrun Nash in Winchester Cathedral in a fortnight , he admitted : ‘ My words have come back to haunt me . ’ |
| 5 | Two broken legs have held back Flatts . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 've had half of it , there about I tell you Chris had leave got get a new carpet when kids have come back |
| 8 | After only getting 7 points compared to my target of 10 from the first 6 games , the lads have come back with 14 from the next 6 . |
| 9 | The eyes have sunk back , they peer against the sun , one hands lowers the brim of the straw hat . |
| 10 | In recent years lurchers have come back very strongly to be very popular animals . |
| 11 | So many funds have held back from investing . |
| 12 | The actor who played Dirty Den in Eastenders has gone back to the prison where he was once an inmate . |
| 13 | It was a glorious victory when he managed to persuade the grown-ups to let him stay on after his parents had gone back to Manchester . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , taking World Bank and IDA figures together , and including interest payments by borrowing countries , it was calculated that during fiscal 1991 developing countries had paid back $1,677 million more than they received . |
| 15 | Hoddle 's anger came after Rovers had pulled back to 4-3 with a goal two minutes from time from a free-kick awarded when goalkeeper Frazer Digby picked up a loose ball . |
| 16 | Incidentally , they were things that Mikhoels had brought back from Chagall as a gift for the Tretyakov Gallery . |
| 17 | Companies have rushed back into debt , mainly to finance overseas acquisitions , especially in Britain and America . |
| 18 | American supermarkets have hit back by cutting many of their prices and printing more money off coupons . |
| 19 | Before that the village 's only successful days had occurred back in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when it was a centre of the Basque whaling trade . |
| 20 | Instead the orbs had sunk back and there was a darkness to the face , a suppressed despair , even an agitation that spoke of tedious things , so unlike those experiences we had laughed over in the past . |
| 21 | Conservationists have gone back to an ancient method of catching ducks , using a dog to lure the birds into a net . |
| 22 | Denmark Farm now teems with life as a myriad of creatures and plants have rushed back to make their home here . |
| 23 | Er they do after , yes th the , the nationalists had moved back across the south after nineteen forty five erm th th they 'd , they 'd retreated from the Japanese progressively after nineteen forty one and abandoned Shanghai and etcetera . |
| 24 | His dreams had come back after many nights which had seemed as empty as death , dreams of walking between high hedges , it was daylight on the other side of them but gloaming where he was and thick earth rose up to his knees , to his waist , stopping him , he tried to open his mouth but his jaw-bones jammed , he was choking … |
| 25 | Secondly Chairman I would like to draw the Councillors ' attention to the fact that I 'm this years representative on the South East Waste Regulation Advisory Committee and we have indeed got in hand a project which is to look at the whole of the recycling and the priorities for the South East region and I would imagine that by the time our officers have reported back to this Authority that they will have an advantage of having access to that report . |
| 26 | The great majority of farmers continue to use minimal quantities of fertiliser although fertility is being depleted ; few governments are tackling the question of the use of their under-populated areas on a systematic basis ; the organizations which serve small farmers have cut back their operations in response to budgetary pressures and in response to the pressure for privatization ; the frequently competent staff of national agricultural research bodies are everywhere starved of funds for transport and field labour . |
| 27 | Now , Monday 's fashion ; the clocks have gone back ; and , naturally , Carol Smillie 's attentions have turned to bed . |
| 28 | HOSPITAL fund raisers have hit back at claims that they were staging a begging plea in a bid to find more cash . |
| 29 | Larger firms have pared back their rambling portfolios of oil and gas properties . |
| 30 | But he 's moaning to me the other week about you know , er and I bloody near said to him , well er , things have come back on you know , but I should of |