Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] back from " in BNC.
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| 1 | But North had at least a half-promise of another honour : Adolfo Calero revealed that the contras had plans to put up a statue of him in Managua , just as soon as they had won it back from the Sandinistas . |
| 2 | By the teethmarks in Heather 's T-shirt we knew Penny had pulled her back from the stairs — Heather 's body did n't have a mark on it . |
| 3 | The car had been behaving all right the night before , when Brian had driven them back from Liz 's . |
| 4 | He had been eight days at the wheel of the destroyer , and had brought her back from Greenland by ‘ Boxing the compass ’ and his father , HMS Reading 's senior officer , now more than middle-aged , had been put out of action by the rigours of the journey from Liverpool to America , and had had to hand over to Arthur when about two days out of St John 's heading for Iceland . |
| 5 | And before that he had brought her back from the world , home again into the enclave of the Scarabae . |
| 6 | A past boyfriend had brought it back from a holiday near Genoa . |
| 7 | That had held me back from being able to grow into a woman really . |
| 8 | Ivan had held him back from the bedroom by force . |