Example sentences of "[noun] have [vb pp] back from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ] . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 5 | So many funds have held back from investing . |
| 6 | Incidentally , they were things that Mikhoels had brought back from Chagall as a gift for the Tretyakov Gallery . |
| 7 | They drank whisky and cider , watched pornogrhapic videos that the teacher had brought back from a holiday in Germany . |
| 8 | Her garter belt was a pre-war birthday present , and she wore a pair of the precious nylons that Sylvia had brought back from the States . |
| 9 | Erlich came close to her , kneeling on the rug he knew that Harry had brought back from a fast run to Beirut . |
| 10 | Yeah , I I 've well that makes a change you know I mean some of my stuff 's come back from them and I 've wondered whether they 've read it . |
| 11 | Television came in the wake of other consumer durables : a vacuum cleaner and a boiler for the washing — once used to cook a lobster my father has brought back from the Highlands where he 's been on a spell of painting stations that will be closed by the Beeching plan a decade later . |
| 12 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 13 | The hood had slipped back from his head when he fell , by the way it lay bunched in his neck . |
| 14 | On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping . |
| 15 | I mean , I know that a lot of the calls they get are practical , people have come back from the Gulf with no money , no home , I mean they 've lived there for years and years and years , without the family network sometimes to keep them going , or friends , friends , they 've , they 've lost all of their , and it 's , it 's not easy . |
| 16 | But that is precisely what is needed , and it is disappointing that for this reason the government has drawn back from attempting reform . |
| 17 | THE 18-month-old Young Vic Youth Theatre has fought back from the threat of funds-starved closure to launch new season with Brecht and Weill 's The Threepenny Opera . |
| 18 | A MOTHER who tragically lost two daughters in separate accidents last night told how her third daughter has fought back from the brink of death . |
| 19 | In addition , Intasun has pulled back from its initial moves into the hotel market . |
| 20 | Peter had come back from hospital in his own but in tearing good spirits . |
| 21 | Johnson 's forces had pulled back from the centre at the request of Dogonyaro . |
| 22 | The British army had come back from Dunkirk with nothing but its rifles . |
| 23 | A YOUNG soccer star has battled back from serious injury to the brink of major success . |
| 24 | There had been a tricky one in Paris , where an entire detachment of men had arrived back from French Guyana and left the ablutions in an appalling state . |
| 25 | By the end of Elizabeth 's reign its population had risen to 11,500 , and though this was 2,500 less than the total number of inhabitants 200 years earlier , York had climbed back from sixth to third position amongst England 's provincial cities . |
| 26 | Cllr Murphy said he had been bitterly disappointed that the report had stepped back from investigating allegations on manipulation of personnel recruitment because it is under investigation by an independent management consultancy . |
| 27 | The important thing to remember , however , is that in many cases no definitive diagnosis can be made until the results have come back from the laboratory and the fact that nothing has been found at the time of the first visit does not mean that the follow-up visit should be missed . |
| 28 | When Cardiff had come back from the dead , he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer . |
| 29 | A garden tractor company has bounced back from the brink of bankruptcy to become a market leader … despite the recession . |
| 30 | On the real occasion , Comfort had arrived back from the river and had stood in front of them both , her blonde hair a mass of tangled curls , each curl spangled with water . |