Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [vb pp] back from " in BNC.
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| 1 | US officials reportedly expressed concerns that the Soviet side had drawn back from previously agreed elements of the START treaty , and that at the same time it appeared to be adopting a less conciliatory stance on other arms control and disarmament issues , such as the ceiling on troops in Central Europe and the outline of an " Open Skies " treaty agreed in February [ ibid . ] . |
| 2 | The Gold Coast had fallen back from the situation 50 years earlier when English-educated Africans had played a leading part in administration , Christian leadership , the judiciary and the learned professions . |
| 3 | Major debt defaults in Mexico and Brazil had prompted a worldwide retreat from international bank lending and the virtual collapse of the syndicated loan market ; since then , unofficial observers estimated that some $45,000 million of net development capital aid had flowed back from the borrowing countries and towards the lenders . |
| 4 | They drank whisky and cider , watched pornogrhapic videos that the teacher had brought back from a holiday in Germany . |
| 5 | Yeah , I I 've well that makes a change you know I mean some of my stuff 's come back from them and I 've wondered whether they 've read it . |
| 6 | Television came in the wake of other consumer durables : a vacuum cleaner and a boiler for the washing — once used to cook a lobster my father has brought back from the Highlands where he 's been on a spell of painting stations that will be closed by the Beeching plan a decade later . |
| 7 | The hood had slipped back from his head when he fell , by the way it lay bunched in his neck . |
| 8 | But that is precisely what is needed , and it is disappointing that for this reason the government has drawn back from attempting reform . |
| 9 | THE 18-month-old Young Vic Youth Theatre has fought back from the threat of funds-starved closure to launch new season with Brecht and Weill 's The Threepenny Opera . |
| 10 | A MOTHER who tragically lost two daughters in separate accidents last night told how her third daughter has fought back from the brink of death . |
| 11 | The British army had come back from Dunkirk with nothing but its rifles . |
| 12 | A YOUNG soccer star has battled back from serious injury to the brink of major success . |
| 13 | Cllr Murphy said he had been bitterly disappointed that the report had stepped back from investigating allegations on manipulation of personnel recruitment because it is under investigation by an independent management consultancy . |
| 14 | A garden tractor company has bounced back from the brink of bankruptcy to become a market leader … despite the recession . |
| 15 | Against the black walls there were of course changes in fashion , changes of music , changes in drink ; for instance for a couple of years you could get little liqueur glasses of violently alcoholic black coffee with pyramids of whipped cream on top after one of the barstaff had come back from an affair with a real sailor ( or so he said anyway ) in some German port , Germany somewhere . |