Example sentences of "have [vb pp] back [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Guy has flown back to London . |
| 2 | Financial services rose on the back of increased consumer spending on cars , according to the group , and was ‘ almost buoyant ’ in the half year although it has dropped back since September . |
| 3 | Financial services rose on the back of increased consumer spending on cars , according to the group , and was ‘ almost buoyant ’ in the half year although it has dropped back since September . |
| 4 | This week our guest on Sharing Time is Erlend who is one of the survivors of the Piper Alpha disaster and is one who has come back to Orkney this last week , staying with his family here in Orkney . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , that 'll be why Boz has come back to Wychwood . |
| 6 | She has come back with Hywel 's dinner . |
| 7 | On T V last week there was a programme , tuberculosis has come back into Britain , said it was the Asians bringing it back . |
| 8 | Mike Findley , regional secretary for the union , has written back to Mr Hindmarsh . |
| 9 | FRENCH actress Isabelle Adjani , 36 , above , has moved back to Paris following the ending of her relationship with actor Daniel Day-Lewis , 34 , star of Last of the Mohicans . |
| 10 | Receptionist who has moved back to Newcastle following her husband 's transfer from the computer centre to in Durham . |
| 11 | Tom turns his head in embarrassment and has it explained to him that his regular caddie has gone back to Orville Moody , and I 'm his new one , so he says , ‘ OK ’ , and walks on to the first tee . |
| 12 | Since then she has gone back to Killarney . |
| 13 | And even those captives who 'd got back to Danu , the town I mean , had been merely mice — helpless and squeaking — rolled this way and that as the cat pleased . |
| 14 | He 'd stayed there ( ‘ in Didcart ’ ) much longer than he 'd intended ; and when finally he tore himself away from the Cornish Riviera and the Torbay Express he 'd walked back to Didcot Parkway Station at about five o'clock , and caught the next train back to Oxford , where he 'd , er , where he 'd had a quick drink in the Station Buffet . |
| 15 | She 'd assumed he 'd driven back to London , but maybe he had n't . |
| 16 | If he 'd gone back to Zimbala it would have brought disgrace on the family . |
| 17 | But Guido was there all right ; he must have come back without Ronni knowing , and he was facing Silvia in the enormous hallway , a fulminating tower of bristling black anger . |
| 18 | I 'd never have come back to Liverpool only the firm sent me here to fix something up on the docks twelve months before this lot started , so I was just unlucky . ’ |
| 19 | Castration was what I would have recommended back in England , where there is less space for dogs to wander and where welfare considerations for a dog out on his own are obviously of prime concern . |
| 20 | He was always talking about the board he was having shaped back in Sydney . |
| 21 | I had won the Middlesex 100 metre title , having moved back to Thames Valley Harriers . |
| 22 | So having got back to Egypt ( and he was being harried from one end of the Western Desert to the other by Rommel ) Boyce found himself in a caravan which was his headquarters and also where he lived when he received an order to hare back as fast as possible to El Alamein . |
| 23 | He may well have been scorned , he may well have lost his job bad word may have got back to Rome , they may have sent the telegrams back to Caesar telling him all about Pilate , but it was n't sufficient reason for him rejecting Christ . |
| 24 | Serafin may have been Russian , may have disappeared back to Russia . |
| 25 | ‘ If that 's the case , the saboteur would n't have walked back to Cartier but up to some vantage point from where he could watch the smash . ’ |
| 26 | But we had to move quickly otherwise Colin would have gone back to Barnsley because his loan spell was over . ’ |
| 27 | She looked down into her drink and answered evasively , ‘ I suppose I could have gone back to Darlington , but I preferred to stay down here . ’ |
| 28 | Ironically , Rockefeller was exactly that type of capitalist he would have despised back in England . |
| 29 | He could have doubled back to Gainsborough later . |
| 30 | The MGN chairman , Sir Robert Clark , is believed to have flown back from Bermuda for a board meeting but board member Lord Hollick , a Labour peer , stayed abroad ski-ing . |