Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] [vb pp] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp has now fallen back on the reliable method of pre-announcement for its OS/2 promotion campaign . |
| 2 | His hair has since grown back . |
| 3 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 4 | Apart from the shock that her GP saw her in the same light as his aged mother , Marie has never looked back . |
| 5 | The mitre template has since come back onto the market , but at prices like £18-£20 and considering the relatively small amount of work in which it is employed , some readers will no doubt feel that they could spend that money more profitably , so will want to make their own . |
| 6 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 7 | ‘ When I realised the ring had probably gone back to England that was one of the first things I checked . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The kids have never looked back . |
| 9 | Mia has now flown back to America with the one-year-old dog , which she has named Tip because it came from Co Tipperary . |
| 10 | The Chancellor has also cut back tax relief on relocation packages for employees . |
| 11 | Since the 1900s , despite the increasing numbers of the elderly , the proportion has again fallen back by more than a third . |
| 12 | I 've just chap , one of my chaps has just come back off a three days , confined spaces , responsible person course . |
| 13 | Since winning his place in the Chelsea midfield in early September , the Hammersmith-born youngster has never looked back . |
| 14 | That machine has now gone back to being called the Model 54 and will appear as a 45MHz TAB-packaged four-way , as it was meant to at one time . |
| 15 | That machine has now gone back to being called the Model 54 and will appear as a 45MHz TAB-packaged four-way , as had already been intended at one time . |
| 16 | T'zin had already turned back to meet Alexei 's eyes . |
| 17 | He never let Liverpool down , but the management have always gone back to Bruce Grobbelaar . |
| 18 | Capercaillie in Scotland have already come back from near extinction once . |
| 19 | The dogs have been kennelled , and the bodyguards have either gone back to bed or have fallen asleep in the hall . |
| 20 | Eddie had just got back from work when they had a row in the kitchen . |
| 21 | The educated classes had just stood back as the aspiring politician and the over-eager Methodist forced the showmen into a reliance on the melodramatic and the romantic . |
| 22 | But by misfortune his telescope had now wandered back again and was trained on the Cutcherry at the very moment that it exploded with a flash that burnt itself so deeply into the Collector 's brain that he reeled , as if struck in the eye by a musket ball And then there was nothing but smoke , dust , debris , and a crash which dropped a picture from the wall behind him . |
| 23 | The October decree had also given back the name Vladikavkaz to North Ossetia 's capital , Ordzhonikidze ( renamed after Stalin 's henchman Sergo Ordzhonikidze ) . |
| 24 | The trouble was that Deborah had never come back through the wood before , only the one way — to Pack Meetings . |
| 25 | A spokeswoman for Barclays Bank stressed that British banks had already cut back their lending in response to earlier warnings . |
| 26 | No British team have ever come back from three goals down in the history of European competition . |
| 27 | The sexual pendulum has now swung back to a more central position , and that 's good news ! |
| 28 | A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ . |
| 29 | Lucker has obviously come back for me once , as there is a fresh note on the bed . |
| 30 | One archer had really gone back to basics ; he had started making his own bows by means of trial and error and a book from the library . |