Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scottish Homes has brought back into use 1,000 units that it has helped to create in the past two years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Traders have hit back with a T shirt campaign , warning town shoppers and town planners alike of what they see as a threat to the very fabric of the town centre . |
| 4 | After only getting 7 points compared to my target of 10 from the first 6 games , the lads have come back with 14 from the next 6 . |
| 5 | So many funds have held back from investing . |
| 6 | The actor who played Dirty Den in Eastenders has gone back to the prison where he was once an inmate . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Incidentally , they were things that Mikhoels had brought back from Chagall as a gift for the Tretyakov Gallery . |
| 10 | Companies have rushed back into debt , mainly to finance overseas acquisitions , especially in Britain and America . |
| 11 | American supermarkets have hit back by cutting many of their prices and printing more money off coupons . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Conservationists have gone back to an ancient method of catching ducks , using a dog to lure the birds into a net . |
| 14 | Er they do after , yes th the , the nationalists had moved back across the south after nineteen forty five erm th th they 'd , they 'd retreated from the Japanese progressively after nineteen forty one and abandoned Shanghai and etcetera . |
| 15 | His dreams had come back after many nights which had seemed as empty as death , dreams of walking between high hedges , it was daylight on the other side of them but gloaming where he was and thick earth rose up to his knees , to his waist , stopping him , he tried to open his mouth but his jaw-bones jammed , he was choking … |
| 16 | Secondly Chairman I would like to draw the Councillors ' attention to the fact that I 'm this years representative on the South East Waste Regulation Advisory Committee and we have indeed got in hand a project which is to look at the whole of the recycling and the priorities for the South East region and I would imagine that by the time our officers have reported back to this Authority that they will have an advantage of having access to that report . |
| 17 | HOSPITAL fund raisers have hit back at claims that they were staging a begging plea in a bid to find more cash . |
| 18 | But he 's moaning to me the other week about you know , er and I bloody near said to him , well er , things have come back on you know , but I should of |
| 19 | NOW that the blush of embarrassment at their mixed showing in the Gulf war has worn off , Europeans have gone back to doing what they do best : dickering over abstractions . |
| 20 | It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field . |
| 21 | All seven Fulmars had landed back on the carrier by 2015 but two were again scrambled almost immediately on the approach of three more S.79s . |
| 22 | Blanche scanned Robert 's face for his true beliefs but in vain : his features had collapsed back into inscrutability . |
| 23 | Yet the names had come back to her quite easily : Birkleigh , Thorn House . |
| 24 | yeah , so why do they call him Harry all the time , Harry for a boy , that 's awful I mean a lot of the old names , we talked about the other day , a lot of the old names have come back for children , but I mean I do n't think Harry should be |
| 25 | From a world slump in the textile industry , ICI Fibres has bounced back by its own efforts to claim world class status . |
| 26 | Puccini : A celebration Andrew Parrott with his Taverner Consort , Choir and Players has gone back to medieval sources , and devised a sequence not just of carols in more robust settings than is common but of instrumental pieces like the March of the Kings . |
| 27 | Mr Parcell said Levy and some friends had gone back to his home and there was a ‘ food fight ’ . |
| 28 | However , turnover increased in 1990 due to UK entry into the European Exchange Rate Mechanism , which implied a shift in longer term inflationary expectations and a fortiori long rates of interest , combined with the fact that the public sector finances had moved back into deficit . |
| 29 | Then it turned out there was a glut of oil ; within a week , petrol prices had fallen back to pre-August levels . |
| 30 | Johnson 's forces had pulled back from the centre at the request of Dogonyaro . |