Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt , by doing that , I had effectively stepped back in time and discovered the one thing that should have been thought of before we even harnessed electricity . |
| 2 | How clearly it had all come back to her — even the piping treble of her own childish voice . |
| 3 | Usually , what with shooting and swimming with the others and riding up at Biddy 's , he had only got back to the garden shed in time to flake out until morning . |
| 4 | But she still did n't have any idea why he had suddenly barged back into her life like this . |
| 5 | ‘ My family were Huguenots , my lady , and therefore unwanted in la belle France , ’ D'Alembord 's contemptuous scorn for France made the Countess bridle , but he had already turned back to Lucille . |
| 6 | ‘ The notebook had already gone back with another Kazakh climber who had returned early , but I gather that it was written in English . |
| 7 | The French boy looked up sharply at his father , but the familiar expressionless mask had already settled back on his face . |
| 8 | Others present included Lord David Cecil , who had lately come back to Oxford to teach English Literature at New College , and Adam Fox , the college chaplain . |
| 9 | As he had finally got back to Mrs Lorimer 's and was washing his face , he was wondering how much of the dirty water of the drug scene had washed over Rose and Steve . |
| 10 | The educated classes had just stood back as the aspiring politician and the over-eager Methodist forced the showmen into a reliance on the melodramatic and the romantic . |
| 11 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 12 | Sandra had just arrived back in time to hear Mrs Foster 's grim assessment of the situation . |
| 13 | Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea . |
| 14 | When she had finished she turned to Nara , who had just come back with the things she needed and was peering round the door , as if he was too scared of her magic to come right in . |
| 15 | The three other members of the crew had just come back to the pump — we were doing " series pumping " — they had brought me a bottle of beer and I was taking a swig . |
| 16 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 17 | Tremayne made more than his usual fuss over Fiona , sensing some sort of turmoil , telling her comfortably that Mackie had just come back from Ascot races where he 'd sent a runner for the apprentice race which had proved a total waste of time . |
| 18 | Lee had just come back from shopping . |
| 19 | At last week-end 's ICA conference , the film generated a single comment , from a producer on Channel 4 's Out series , Claire Beavan , who had just come back from America where she was making a programme about Hollywood homophobia . |
| 20 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 21 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 22 | Eddie had just got back from work when they had a row in the kitchen . |
| 23 | Agnes had taken a smaller one ; she had just got back from her service 's registry . |
| 24 | I thought of the most dedicated cricket fanatic I had ever known back in South Africa — a man who despite repeated heart attacks , doctors ' warnings and family entreaties to stop playing the game , had persisted with club cricket to the end , in his sixties diving after slip catches as recklessly as he had in his teens . |
| 25 | By the Middle Ages the river had gradually cut back through the neck of land at this side of the rise , until it cut right through to where it runs now . |
| 26 | But , with the gleam from beneath her husband 's heavy , sleepy eyelids practically scorching her flesh , Laura had quickly struggled back into her T-shirt . |
| 27 | ‘ When I realised the ring had probably gone back to England that was one of the first things I checked . ’ |
| 28 | He was glad Rebel had gone off towards the road , though he had probably run back by now for the loaf . |
| 29 | The majority of these had probably escaped back across the marsh , they thought ; indeed many had never been engaged . |
| 30 | Consequently , when he had found suitable accommodation , his wife and children had also gone back to England . |