Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [adv] [vb pp] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp has now fallen back on the reliable method of pre-announcement for its OS/2 promotion campaign . |
| 2 | His hair has since grown back . |
| 3 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 4 | The mitre template has since come back onto the market , but at prices like £18-£20 and considering the relatively small amount of work in which it is employed , some readers will no doubt feel that they could spend that money more profitably , so will want to make their own . |
| 5 | ‘ When I realised the ring had probably gone back to England that was one of the first things I checked . ’ |
| 6 | Mia has now flown back to America with the one-year-old dog , which she has named Tip because it came from Co Tipperary . |
| 7 | The Chancellor has also cut back tax relief on relocation packages for employees . |
| 8 | Since the 1900s , despite the increasing numbers of the elderly , the proportion has again fallen back by more than a third . |
| 9 | Since winning his place in the Chelsea midfield in early September , the Hammersmith-born youngster has never looked back . |
| 10 | That machine has now gone back to being called the Model 54 and will appear as a 45MHz TAB-packaged four-way , as it was meant to at one time . |
| 11 | That machine has now gone back to being called the Model 54 and will appear as a 45MHz TAB-packaged four-way , as had already been intended at one time . |
| 12 | He never let Liverpool down , but the management have always gone back to Bruce Grobbelaar . |
| 13 | But by misfortune his telescope had now wandered back again and was trained on the Cutcherry at the very moment that it exploded with a flash that burnt itself so deeply into the Collector 's brain that he reeled , as if struck in the eye by a musket ball And then there was nothing but smoke , dust , debris , and a crash which dropped a picture from the wall behind him . |
| 14 | The October decree had also given back the name Vladikavkaz to North Ossetia 's capital , Ordzhonikidze ( renamed after Stalin 's henchman Sergo Ordzhonikidze ) . |
| 15 | No British team have ever come back from three goals down in the history of European competition . |
| 16 | The sexual pendulum has now swung back to a more central position , and that 's good news ! |
| 17 | A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ . |
| 18 | Lucker has obviously come back for me once , as there is a fresh note on the bed . |
| 19 | One archer had really gone back to basics ; he had started making his own bows by means of trial and error and a book from the library . |
| 20 | The French boy looked up sharply at his father , but the familiar expressionless mask had already settled back on his face . |
| 21 | The three other members of the crew had just come back to the pump — we were doing " series pumping " — they had brought me a bottle of beer and I was taking a swig . |
| 22 | A sentence such as John and his friend have just come back from New York can be used to illustrate an insertion task . |
| 23 | John and his friend have just come back from New York , you know . |
| 24 | John and his friend have just come back from New , you know , York |
| 25 | John and his , you know , friend have just come back from New York . |
| 26 | The hardest hit Americans included Ed Ruscha , Donald Sultan and Frank Stella though Anthony Grant at Sotheby 's stresses that demand has already bounced back for top works by Julian Schnabel and others badly mauled in 1991 . |
| 27 | Tania 's career has never looked back … until now . |
| 28 | I was quite sure of that for my father had again gone back to Rye marshes to reinforce the defences . |
| 29 | One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping . |
| 30 | The woman , the baby and the speaker had already gone back inside . |