Example sentences of "[vb pp] back from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would they find each other much changed , or would it be like it was when he had come back from school for the holidays ? |
| 2 | He 's just come back from holiday , and starts school today . ’ |
| 3 | A quick reminder , many people will know , but a quick reminder and er , if you 've perhaps just come back from holiday yourself , or you 're one of our new listeners , you may not know so I 'll tell you , Douglas Cameron 's Breakfast Call , this very programme , will be breaking new ground at the end of next month . |
| 4 | Lee had just come back from shopping . |
| 5 | Peter had come back from hospital in his own but in tearing good spirits . |
| 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 . |
| 7 | Nobody else has come back from town . ’ |
| 8 | If necessary you would then follow-up with physiotherapy treatment ( if referred by a GP this can be claimed back from health insurance ) and remedial exercises in the small but well-equipped gym . |
| 9 | The Government reckons it will cost about £4 million to implement , 75 per cent of which it is hoped will be clawed back from industry . |
| 10 | Before I had turned back from Bilen I had watched the Awash flowing towards its unknown destination . |
| 11 | From there , no doubt , he 'd gone straight to Hell ; but there were times when he and his wicked mistresses were still to be seen walking here , their shades drawn back from Hellfire to visit the scene of their sins . |
| 12 | Eddie had just got back from work when they had a row in the kitchen . |
| 13 | John 's there with his mate Paul , who 's just got back from work . |
| 14 | That was er I 'd just got back from work . |
| 15 | I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face . |
| 16 | Well it , it 's been stupid this laid on this settee falling down back , it 's blinking ridiculous , yeah , we 've just got back from hospital and they 'll send her a letter for er , to make an appointment for her to go back , to see what the treatment they 're gon na give her , so , will it go in Pete 's car ? |
| 17 | In a similar kind of way , one Essex farm labourer 's daughter was called back from service to live with her ageing parents again , the household supported partly from the wages of younger brothers , and partly from pigs and hens which the old couple kept themselves . |
| 18 | He heard a pheasant call and almost called back from habit . |
| 19 | They 've just had it brought back from whatsername 's ? have n't they ? |
| 20 | She decided to forgo the coffee , and rushed up to Hunter Ward , just as another patient was being wheeled back from Theatre , drip held aloft by the nurse . |
| 21 | Having recently came back from canoeing in Austria where canoeists , fishermen and landowners all enjoy what nature has provided , it certainly dates what canoeists have to put up with in parts of this country . |
| 22 | Men get sent back from specialist posts to uniform duties as a punishment and the strength of this metaphorical move downwards or backwards ( you can never move ‘ up ’ or ‘ forwards ’ into uniform ) is not lost on young officers . |
| 23 | Madigan 's Millions was held back from release until American International Pictures decided to take advantage of the success of Midnight Cowboy by foisting it on to the public in 1969 in a double bill with Jon Voight 's early indiscretion , Fearless Frank , also made in 1967 . |
| 24 | Social order on the street had the characteristics of a truce , a lull in which warring parties tacitly held back from strife . |