Example sentences of "had [vb pp] back to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rasari , a soldier with the Fijian contingent in the UN Peacekeeping Force in the Lebanon , had flown back to Fiji specifically for trials in preparation for this title defence . |
| 2 | The one drawback was that news of his success had travelled back to England . |
| 3 | By 1713 she had travelled back to England to oversee the Wilsthorpe estate . |
| 4 | He had travelled back to Keswick with her even though it had not been his previous intention to do so . |
| 5 | Then it turned out there was a glut of oil ; within a week , petrol prices had fallen back to pre-August levels . |
| 6 | Jake turned and looked urgently at his son ; but Adam 's gaze had fallen back to Undry , and Ruth was n't sure he 'd heard . |
| 7 | The father pleaded with the elder brother and tried to point out to him that it was only right to celebrate for it was as if the younger son had come back to life from the dead . |
| 8 | She looked at the baby , also drenched in tears , and found he had come back to life . |
| 9 | It was as if Lady Lavinia herself had come back to life , and sat staring at her out of the malevolence in her soul . |
| 10 | He told the doctors all about how my dad had come back to life in this grey cardigan and had told him the secrets of the universe . |
| 11 | I only became interested in public relations once I had come back to Germany . ’ |
| 12 | His only son — well provided in those days with cash — had come back to Europe in the early ‘ thirties with little in his mind except escape . |
| 13 | Her father had been an economist , who had come back to Europe with Woodrow Wilson to try to hammer something workable out of the ruins of the Great War , and after that the family had divided themselves between the USA and Britain . |
| 14 | Had n't everything gone wrong from the moment she had come back to Eastlake ? |
| 15 | My parents , who had come back to Hastings from their exile in Somerset to fish and clean , as they always did , had braved all and were coming to the wedding . |
| 16 | With relief Suzi had departed back to Hochhauser , feeling she had n't altogether lost face amongst her fellow students after all , her choice of career was still quite artistic and adventurous , it was still ‘ show business ’ in a way — but also overjoyed to be going home . |
| 17 | When Angel One had reported back to Dragon Control early on the day following the destruction of his Bethlehem House base , the Controller had been unable to keep the malicious satisfaction out of his voice when he had berated him for his ignominious failure , as he put it , in allowing his entire organisation to be destroyed by unforeseen enemy action . |
| 18 | He had turned back to Rodriguez . |
| 19 | They had turned back to Sicily and I could n't see a formation but spotted a straggler who , curiously enough , was flying diagonally across our line of approach and not heading pell-mell for home . |
| 20 | And when the lightning had forked inwards through the window and shattered the typing-pool window , Gilbert had turned back to Rohmer in helpless appeal . |
| 21 | Pauline Simonescu , finding the austerities of post-war London bad for business , had moved back to Paris at about the same time he , too , had returned , from Oxford . |
| 22 | ‘ If word of this had got back to Connelly there 'd be gang war , ’ Hitch told him . |
| 23 | In the 1150s Bishop Henry of Winchester was described as buying up statues all over Rome which he had shipped back to England . |
| 24 | Leaving at about 10.30 , he had walked back to Hungerford by a wide track that skirted Duncan Woods , by way of the turnpike crossroads . |
| 25 | In 1982 he was an occasional driver in the Williams car when injuries created an opening , but the dominant Mario had disappeared back to America . |
| 26 | It was the end of Ramadan and the Old City , funereal for the last month , had sprung back to life with a vengeance . |
| 27 | Just as ten minutes earlier , as he had driven back to St Aldate 's , Lewis had wondered the same about Mrs Kemp ; in particular recalling the curious fact that , for a woman who had so manifestly hated her husband , she had reacted to the news of his death with such terrible distress . |
| 28 | Gilbert had scurried back to Rohmer and Jimmy could see that Rohmer was still sitting on the desk near the back double-doors where they had left him . |
| 29 | A really great scholar , he had a unique opportunity to develop his abilities , because Biscop had brought back to Jarrow some 200 to 300 antique books that he had managed to acquire in southern Italy . |
| 30 | They found the cutting and scrambled down the slopes of the cutting enjoying the freedom , the old hut looked interesting and they soon explored the area , that had reverted back to nature . |