Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] back from [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Lee had just come back from shopping .
2 He 's just come back from holiday , and starts school today . ’
3 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 .
4 I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face .
5 Eddie had just got back from work when they had a row in the kitchen .
6 John 's there with his mate Paul , who 's just got back from work .
7 That was er I 'd just got back from work .
8 Well it , it 's been stupid this laid on this settee falling down back , it 's blinking ridiculous , yeah , we 've just got back from hospital and they 'll send her a letter for er , to make an appointment for her to go back , to see what the treatment they 're gon na give her , so , will it go in Pete 's car ?
9 Social order on the street had the characteristics of a truce , a lull in which warring parties tacitly held back from strife .
10 He heard a pheasant call and almost called back from habit .
11 With no casualties to deal with , but with new staff and better equipment our doctors settled down to work with a will for the children from ‘ Peabody buildings ’ at the back of the hospital who had either come back from evacuation , or who would not go anyway .
12 Having recently came back from canoeing in Austria where canoeists , fishermen and landowners all enjoy what nature has provided , it certainly dates what canoeists have to put up with in parts of this country .
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