Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bantam has gone back for nearly 400,000 Maya Angelou paperbacks . |
| 2 | Cleveland County fire officer Bill Cooney has hit back at criticism of the service . |
| 3 | In some cases Dutton has gone back to these originals , and sometimes he has worked on the Griffith tapes . |
| 4 | DESPERATELY-ILL schoolgirl Wendy Walker has battled back to life to repay her loving parents ' amazing devotion . |
| 5 | Osaka has fought back with a splurge of infrastructure projects , most notably a new international airport perched upon a man-made island . |
| 6 | Shiona had smiled back at the fair-haired youth who had so recently become her brother . |
| 7 | Back inside , Rafiq had gone back to the thousand-dollar question . |
| 8 | As I entered , Miss Kenton had turned back to the window . |
| 9 | At the 18th green Manuel and Andy had walked back to the marked circle . |
| 10 | " That 's O.K. , " said Marion , but by then Sue had gone back into the shop . |
| 11 | She had nagged at her mother for insisting on cooking everything herself , although she always did it , however formal the occasion or long the guest list , she had gone on and on until Mrs Roberts had snapped back in her turn , furiously . |
| 12 | Toby had come back for the moment . |
| 13 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 14 | Mark Frost has gone back as a bowler , though of course he could come again . |
| 15 | Fenella had gone back to the bed-chamber and pulled on her boots and found the warm woollen cloak she had brought from Renascia while Caspar had raided the sculleries and packed the maps . |
| 16 | Turner had faced back towards the exit from the yard , but he hesitated , saying , ‘ I know what your game is , Doyle . |
| 17 | But Camille had turned back to her toenails and could n't see her mother 's face . |
| 18 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |
| 19 | Fergus had fallen back across the table and Taliesin and Fribble both moved to stand between him and the Lad . |
| 20 | Fergus had gone back into a deep sleep . |
| 21 | Loretta had wandered back into the drawing-room , and was chatting to a classics don who taught at the same college as Bridget . |
| 22 | Simon had swivelled back to me and handed me a piece of paper with an address in Theobalds Road . |
| 23 | THE QE2 's owners Cunard have hit back after a US federal review board blamed confusion and poor communication for the world 's largest liner running aground off the US east coast last summer . |
| 24 | Good God you have n't heard if Karen 's gone back in , no . |
| 25 | What was it Graham had said back at the Windorah about Barak ? |
| 26 | Burun had rocked back onto his heels . |
| 27 | Susannah had gone back to India in 1913 when we sailed from Jibuti to England . |
| 28 | Of all the people in the world she least wanted to see , yet most wanted to see , Tyler had walked back into her life to turn it upside down . |
| 29 | The prosecution argued that the Newleys had driven down together from London ; after the murder , Mrs Newley had driven back in her husband 's car , and parked it near their home ; no doubt she hoped that the trip to Hampshire would never come to light . |
| 30 | Having escorted Felicity Suvarov around St Mark 's cathedral , Julia had gone back to the Danieli hotel and shared some lunch with her . |