Example sentences of "have [not/n't] [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Branfoot said : ‘ Matt has not come back with an answer but we are still in the early stages of negotiation . ’ |
| 2 | Kernaghan has not looked back since then . |
| 3 | Both roles have involved handing out criticism , a task he has not held back from especially in this , the last year before he retires . |
| 4 | He has n't drifted back to his own place yet , eh ? |
| 5 | See , Sue has n't come back to me , the science department has n't come to me so I 'm not , I may leave that and say , and do something like that next year in a module or wait until I 've finished again I do n't mind , that 's still something in my mind which I would like to do but because talking to the form tutor 's , what I had written down as a fait a complet erm they 're not too keen so therefore I opened up and say you know , which particular things they were interested in the banking one they are very interested in the environment one , yes , within the school tidy upping area that they would like to do but I 've got ta be able to , and I do n't when planting season is or if I wan na put , be able to put flowers in etcetera , you see what I mean ? |
| 6 | John has n't come back to us . |
| 7 | She had not gone back to whoring , but eked out a miserable living as a washerwoman , for which she lacked the stamina . |
| 8 | Benny usually went home around four-thirty unless the boss offered him some overtime , and Joe Maitland had not arrived back from his buying trip . |
| 9 | The show was over , and Sweetheart had not come back for him . |
| 10 | Tommaso had not come back at Ascension , though some others who 'd been called to military service at the same time walked into town one afternoon . |
| 11 | Since he had not come back to Møn he must be dead — there could be no other explanation . |
| 12 | But no , she could not ride tomorrow , her boots had not come back from the shoemaker 's . |
| 13 | Edward had not come back from the construction firm at David with anything saved up , but then , she had hardly expected him to . |
| 14 | and I 've not come back till twelve ! |
| 15 | I suppose if I had n't gone back into that room they 'd have found some other way of leaving the message . ’ |
| 16 | He had n't looked back since then . |
| 17 | Maybe the girl had n't reported back to Myeloski , told him that she had failed to seduce him . |
| 18 | Her father had n't come back by one o'clock . |
| 19 | I have not heard back from you since then , and I wondered if you could please confirm that you are still interested in receiving a copy of the tape ? |
| 20 | While capitalist states elsewhere have had to deal with high levels of inflation , balance of payment crises , low productivity and increasing demands put on State expenditure , Britain has had to respond not only to these problems but also to a decline in its manufacturing base : profits from industry have not gone back in sufficient volume to sustain the long-term investment in new technology that Britain has needed . |
| 21 | Most of them are ex-soldiers , many from the Afghan campaign , who have not settled back into civilian life . |
| 22 | ‘ I have not got back to my normal working routine , quite honestly . |
| 23 | But at the moment he 's well he 's not come back to us with any answer from our offer at all so we 're we 're presuming that means no so we thought we 'd better start looking . |
| 24 | who were the religious police who were actually watching , so we have n't gone back for a while |
| 25 | You have n't gone back on your promise , have you ? |
| 26 | I still have n't heard back from the young lady who sent me the Valentine card ; did you really mean it ? |
| 27 | No I have n't got back to the strings . |
| 28 | Well they have n't come back from the shop yet . |