Example sentences of "have [vb pp] back [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moon has stepped back like an artist gazing amazed at a work |
| 2 | The other , Bath and England B star Audley Lumsden , is just lucky to have his chance , having come back from an horrific , career-threatening broken neck . |
| 3 | At 133 for 2 , England might have fought back for an honourable draw ; or they might not . |
| 4 | Now talk some more and let me hear whether you 've come back with an American accent . " |
| 5 | He had appointed the Tower Commission , he said , specifically to find out whether money had been generated from the arms sales beyond the ‘ twelve million two ’ , and , if so , who had done it ; but no one had come back with an answer . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had swayed back into an upright position and reverted to a tone of easy confidence . |
| 8 | Once again Congress had struck back against an overweening executive branch . |
| 9 | Conservationists have gone back to an ancient method of catching ducks , using a dog to lure the birds into a net . |