Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] back " in BNC.

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1 And Rodger has only just come back from three weeks ' rehabilitation at Lilleshall .
2 The group , however , was then almost unrecognisable from the one that has just recently burst back into the FTSE 100 .
3 And , as I have said , the genre , however American in origin , has also successfully crossed back over the Atlantic .
4 The answer is partly that the vote in Rhineland-Palatinate , which lies just below Bonn , is now out of the way ; partly that he may regain some of his lost esteem in eastern Germany , where voters are heavily for Berlin ; but not least that Mr Kohl has almost always come back fighting after getting a slap in the face .
5 Especially since I 'd only just arrived back from Paris . ’
6 Apparently he was a bit worried , so I said — oh , it sounds silly — that we 'd only just got back , that I 'd just sat down … . ’
7 In spite of Fraser having only just got back , he was invited to accompany them , and just as naturally agreed .
8 But we 've only just got back . ’
9 I 've only just got back to the UK ’ He looked around him .
10 ‘ I 've only just got back to my room and picked up your message .
11 I have n't had time to think yet , I 've only just got back in on the phone and sorting out the printer .
12 Hello er , I 'm phoning on behalf of Mrs Ada er she 's got to come in for a scan on the fourth of February , nine o'clock , now we 've only just got back from the hospital today , cos she oh , she had to go today for one , yeah , and we 've just
13 I 've only just come back down . ’
14 He did not think there would be any point in Sara travelling to Wellingham that evening , especially as she had only just got back from abroad .
15 Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude .
16 Did I gather he had only just arrived back ? ’
17 But he admitted : ‘ It is a crashing diappointment for Rob because he had only just come back into the side — and his return coincided with two successive clean sheets . ’
18 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 .
19 I know you 've just recently come back from Uganda .
20 No the money I want to spend , I 've partly already written back and said , can I use this money as we do n't need it can I buy chairs , I was specific .
21 That attracted Pompey , and Whittingham explained : ‘ I decided to buy myself out for £450 and take the plunge — I 'm glad to say Portsmouth did pay me back the money — and I 've never really looked back .
22 Then he 'd kissed her and walked away ; and though she waited until he was out of sight , he had never once looked back to where she stood .
23 What she had n't noticed until now , being much too busy getting on with her own life , was that he had never really come back out .
24 I have only just got back .
25 Of course , we have only just got back from our honeymoon . ’
26 Well she 's only just gone back tonight .
27 Official energy pronouncements , whatever their other shortcomings , have hitherto always fallen back on ‘ national security ’ as their ultimate justification .
28 My mitt 's just about come back to reality , last night when I was playing my trumpet right , it was numb , my fingers , I 'd got no feeling in it , it was as though it was dead .
29 But we have once again slipped back into looking at life from the point of view of the individual organism rather than its genes .
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