Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 2 | Before I had turned back from Bilen I had watched the Awash flowing towards its unknown destination . |
| 3 | I felt I had stepped back into a thirties ' film and that in the morning , when we went down into the bar for café au lait , Arletty and Jean Gabin would be leaning on the zinc counter . |
| 4 | I felt that I had stepped back in time to share in the 400 year old ceremony in this charming village . |
| 5 | For some time I had wanted to move further from London with its many social distractions , and now with the half million words of notes I had brought back with me from my world tour waiting to be distilled into a book , I felt the need more than ever . |
| 6 | I only became interested in public relations once I had come back to Germany . ’ |
| 7 | Millie would have been fiddling awkwardly with the thick brush of ginger hair coarser than her father 's , and even redder — that sprang away all round her face , while her cello case , which I had carried back for her , was no doubt propped up against one of the crumbling and gateless brick pillars in front of their house , like a portly little old man too out of breath to speak . |
| 8 | So when I did n't receive any further communication , I 've gone back to them and asked them whether they would be interested in reducing the price , cos we consider it to be too high for that one acre of land . |
| 9 | Taylor said enthusiastically : ‘ After the win against Turkey , it was the first time since I 've been England manager that I 've gone back into the dressing room and felt the emotions I did as a club manager . |
| 10 | I 've called back into his mind the spells I put on him at his birth . |
| 11 | I 've moved back into and er I 'd just like to say I 'm sure on behalf of all of you and the people of that we see this as a tremendous move and thank you for the work you 've put in . |
| 12 | Many releasings are really re-releasings , that is owls from broken homes , like the first pair , or injured owls I 've nursed back to health and paired up . |
| 13 | I would n't like to tell you how often I 've thought back on it . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh no , I 've pulled back from that . |
| 15 | I 've come back to England to watch you spend it . ’ |
| 16 | I grew away from the Church being a clergyman s son , of course , and now that I 've come back to it I find it the same only more so — fewer people and even more cups of tea . ’ |
| 17 | Well at various times in my life I 've come back to Kingston and I first of all used to see peo girls who were at school with me . |
| 18 | I said brazenly , ‘ I 've come back for tea , after all . ’ |
| 19 | I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen . |
| 20 | I have n't been in here since I 've come back from Devon |
| 21 | However , I have now decided that most of the new music out there is n't worth listening to , so I 've got back to reading about music in preference to listening to it . |
| 22 | Yesterday he said : ‘ I 'm pleased I 've got back to work as I was getting bored at home . |
| 23 | I have led back into the homeland the millions of deeply unhappy Germans who had been torn away from us . |
| 24 | I have given back to the Reich the provinces stolen from us in 1919 . |
| 25 | I have come back to the international scene with a fierce rival in Phil Tufnell , with Ian Salisbury breathing down our necks and Hampshire 's young Sean Udal making great strides every season . |
| 26 | Then I became a vagrant and travelled far and nowhere ; now I have come back to be near Callanish again , though quite where I shall go I do n't know . |
| 27 | I have got back on the adrenalin and enthusiasm for these first few matches and hopefully in the next six weeks you will see the best of me . ’ |
| 28 | Since then she has gone back to Killarney . |
| 29 | When she has shuffled back behind her counter I nod at Jamie 's pile of food . |
| 30 | The fact that she has fought back to the level that she has now attained is a tribute to the loving care , encouragement and inspiration given her by her parents . |