Example sentences of "had [vb pp] back from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Qulis — who were met by police at Heathrow — had flown back from Dublin after collecting Farrah from Limerick . |
| 2 | McFarlane had come back from London in December 1985 disgusted with the bartering , repelled by Ghorbanifar and wanting to abandon the operation . |
| 3 | Would they find each other much changed , or would it be like it was when he had come back from school for the holidays ? |
| 4 | She remembered that fated evening when she had come back from Wimbledon after seeing Hindley Foster . |
| 5 | Ever since that ghastly winter 's night when she had come back from Wimbledon and said she was pregnant . |
| 6 | When he had come back from Grasmere the first thing he had done — despite George Wood 's vehement protests — was to pay back the loan and bring his hotel bill up to the mark . |
| 7 | The British army had come back from Dunkirk with nothing but its rifles . |
| 8 | Peter had come back from hospital in his own but in tearing good spirits . |
| 9 | Before I had turned back from Bilen I had watched the Awash flowing towards its unknown destination . |
| 10 | There had been a tricky one in Paris , where an entire detachment of men had arrived back from French Guyana and left the ablutions in an appalling state . |
| 11 | Thanks are due to Christine Healey who always helps us and had arrived back from Kenya in time to rearrange the exhibition screens to a more attractive display and thanks also to Mr Derek Andrews , Manager of Blackwell 's , the University Bookshop , for generously sponsoring us this year . |
| 12 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 13 | In his book " Memoirs of an Artist Naturalist " ( 1954 ) he mentions these visits , quoting from his diary for " September 24 , 1936 , hawking in the afternoon with a gyr-falcon which the late Ernest Vesey ( pen name of Ernest Lewis ) had brought back from Iceland . " |
| 14 | Incidentally , they were things that Mikhoels had brought back from Chagall as a gift for the Tretyakov Gallery . |
| 15 | ’ On the north-east corner he asked for a castellated bell tower in which to house the bell he had brought back from Lille . |
| 16 | On Wednesday , he swallowed his pride , banked Dysart 's cheque and purchased a car with most of what remained from the cash he had brought back from Rhodes . |
| 17 | From an early age , his mother and father showed him the illustrated books on the subject which they had brought back from London , and described at length the wonders of the ballets they had seen danced there by the Diaghilev company , ‘ when they were young and in love ’ , as John put it later . |
| 18 | He was ostracized after his return by an ‘ electorate ’ which certainly included the 4000 hoplites he had brought back from Ithome , who went on to fight the Spartans hard over thy next decade and a half of warfare ( the First Peloponnesian War , see further p. 39 ) . |
| 19 | It was a cruel blow for Blackburn , who had bounced back from Sunday 's Coca-Cola Cup semi-final defeat at Hillsborough to twice lead through Steve Livingstone and Mike Newell . |
| 20 | She might be willing to give me , as the tenant of the former Mackay home , the details she had kept back from Ann and Megan . |
| 21 | Perhaps the greatest tribute to the system 's aesthetic capabilities was provided by the ex-editor of Classical Music who , some weeks after the changeover from traditional to electronic , asked Tony Gamble why they had changed back from ITC Clearface to the original Times . |