Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have just come back from lecturing in New York and I am off to lecture in Hong Kong . |
| 2 | ‘ I have just come back from talking to Alfred and I telephoned Maurice . ’ |
| 3 | I have just got back , I told myself . |
| 4 | As I 've said , I 've been on H R T for three years and , I have since went back to work after being on H R T I do n't think I 'm an old hag ! |
| 5 | So , I have always to go back to the beginning if I want to sort something out . |
| 6 | I have always held back , my darling , from being too ardent , fearing to frighten you . ’ |
| 7 | But I have always drawn back . |
| 8 | ‘ People are always trying to put me down and I have always come back better . ’ |
| 9 | You have only to look back a generation . ’ |
| 10 | We have also reached back in time , using memories of grandparents from more than 600 interviews and autobiographies , to try to sense how later life may have changed over two or more centuries . |
| 11 | Gail , who is also looking forward to the birth of her first baby in November , said : ‘ We have just come back from two wet weeks in Bournemouth and said we could do with spoiling ourselves with a stay in a luxury hotel then I was told I had won — it 's amazing. , ’ |
| 12 | We have simultaneously slipped back into a compromising embrace with the very form of instrumental utilitarianism which got the world into such a mess in the first place : that things are of value because they are of value to us , not because they are of value in themselves . |
| 13 | ‘ The citizenship law we have now harks back to another era , ’ one CDU official said . |
| 14 | We have only to look back to the debates about language across the curriculum to remember the puerile arguments over whose responsibility it was to teach language skills . |