Example sentences of "[noun] had [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 | Incidentally , they were things that Mikhoels had brought back from Chagall as a gift for the Tretyakov Gallery . |
| 6 | They drank whisky and cider , watched pornogrhapic videos that the teacher had brought back from a holiday in Germany . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Erlich came close to her , kneeling on the rug he knew that Harry had brought back from a fast run to Beirut . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The hood had slipped back from his head when he fell , by the way it lay bunched in his neck . |
| 11 | On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping . |
| 12 | Peter had come back from hospital in his own but in tearing good spirits . |
| 13 | Johnson 's forces had pulled back from the centre at the request of Dogonyaro . |
| 14 | The British army had come back from Dunkirk with nothing but its rifles . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When Cardiff had come back from the dead , he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | McFarlane had come back from London in December 1985 disgusted with the bartering , repelled by Ghorbanifar and wanting to abandon the operation . |
| 21 | In my babyhood , he had asked the great Australian centre Dave Brown to let me be photographed with an enormous stuffed lion Brown had brought back from a Kangaroo tour of Great Britain . |
| 22 | Against the black walls there were of course changes in fashion , changes of music , changes in drink ; for instance for a couple of years you could get little liqueur glasses of violently alcoholic black coffee with pyramids of whipped cream on top after one of the barstaff had come back from an affair with a real sailor ( or so he said anyway ) in some German port , Germany somewhere . |