Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] back [prep] " 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 | Shiona had smiled back at the fair-haired youth who had so recently become her brother . |
| 4 | Back inside , Rafiq had gone back to the thousand-dollar question . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As I entered , Miss Kenton had turned back to the window . |
| 8 | At the 18th green Manuel and Andy had walked back to the marked circle . |
| 9 | The men on the fence had disappeared back into the trees . |
| 10 | " That 's O.K. , " said Marion , but by then Sue had gone back into the shop . |
| 11 | She had nagged at her mother for insisting on cooking everything herself , although she always did it , however formal the occasion or long the guest list , she had gone on and on until Mrs Roberts had snapped back in her turn , furiously . |
| 12 | Toby had come back for the moment . |
| 13 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 14 | Jake turned and looked urgently at his son ; but Adam 's gaze had fallen back to Undry , and Ruth was n't sure he 'd heard . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Fenella had gone back to the bed-chamber and pulled on her boots and found the warm woollen cloak she had brought from Renascia while Caspar had raided the sculleries and packed the maps . |
| 17 | Turner had faced back towards the exit from the yard , but he hesitated , saying , ‘ I know what your game is , Doyle . |
| 18 | But Camille had turned back to her toenails and could n't see her mother 's face . |
| 19 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Fergus had fallen back across the table and Taliesin and Fribble both moved to stand between him and the Lad . |
| 22 | Fergus had gone back into a deep sleep . |
| 23 | Loretta had wandered back into the drawing-room , and was chatting to a classics don who taught at the same college as Bridget . |
| 24 | Incidentally , they were things that Mikhoels had brought back from Chagall as a gift for the Tretyakov Gallery . |
| 25 | Simon had swivelled back to me and handed me a piece of paper with an address in Theobalds Road . |
| 26 | What was it Graham had said back at the Windorah about Barak ? |
| 27 | The team had moved back in again , carefully sifting and analysing . |
| 28 | Burun had rocked back onto his heels . |
| 29 | They drank whisky and cider , watched pornogrhapic videos that the teacher had brought back from a holiday in Germany . |
| 30 | 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 . |