Example sentences of "have not [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 She had not gone back to whoring , but eked out a miserable living as a washerwoman , for which she lacked the stamina .
5 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 .
6 The show was over , and Sweetheart had not come back for him .
7 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 .
8 Since he had not come back to Møn he must be dead — there could be no other explanation .
9 But no , she could not ride tomorrow , her boots had not come back from the shoemaker 's .
10 Edward had not come back from the construction firm at David with anything saved up , but then , she had hardly expected him to .
11 and I 've not come back till twelve !
12 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 ?
13 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 .
14 Most of them are ex-soldiers , many from the Afghan campaign , who have not settled back into civilian life .
15 ‘ I have not got back to my normal working routine , quite honestly .
16 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 .
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