Example sentences of "had [been] [vb pp] back from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though the overall union target had been cut back from £4.7 million to £2 million , only four unions came in on target : NALGO with £250,000 ; the National Union of Seamen and Fire Brigades Union with £50,000 each ; the fourth was the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers , led by the vociferously right-wing Gavin Laird . |
| 2 | Mr Evans said that capital spending had been cut back from original plans to offset the squeeze on profitability . |
| 3 | It is not clear whether these were part of the advance column who had been marched back from Bleiburg or some of the vast majority of the Croats who had never entered Austria at all . |
| 4 | Her hear , damp from the bath , had been pulled back from her face , giving it a very youthful expression . |
| 5 | For what would you have done this time last year if a lass had been held back from you like this ? |
| 6 | General Montgomery , who had been brought back from Italy to take a very prominent part in the ‘ D day ’ operation and the subsequent advance through France , Belgium , Holland and Germany , had been appointed Field Marshall and found himself considered a hero of the people , wherever he went . |
| 7 | Dalgliesh found himself wondering if it had been brought back from a school trip to the capital . |
| 8 | He declared that he was ‘ a British subject by birth ’ , born at Rutledge Terrace , Galway , a house which his family did not inhabit until some years after William Joyce had been brought back from New York . |
| 9 | Or had something which had been brought back from Romania in another golf bag been fitted inside it ? |