Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hair has since grown back . |
| 2 | The mitre template has since come back onto the market , but at prices like £18-£20 and considering the relatively small amount of work in which it is employed , some readers will no doubt feel that they could spend that money more profitably , so will want to make their own . |
| 3 | Lucker has obviously come back for me once , as there is a fresh note on the bed . |
| 4 | ‘ It has obviously set back our restoration work , ’ Mr Rutter said , ‘ but the worst aspect is the effect it will have on the morale of volunteers . |
| 5 | Thomson 's free kick Pearce gets it clear and then won back by Hill but has only gone back to the Forest skipper . |
| 6 | The mother has made a phone call to the hospital asking after her daughter 's safety but she has not called back as promised . |
| 7 | Branfoot said : ‘ Matt has not come back with an answer but we are still in the early stages of negotiation . ’ |
| 8 | Elwyn C. Bellford , an important lawyer in the town , left home three days ago and has not come back . |
| 9 | He has not looked back since . |
| 10 | That clinched his place in the first-ever meeting between South African schools and England — and he has not looked back . |
| 11 | The newly constituted BSkyB , with Murdoch firmly in control , has not looked back . |
| 12 | Kernaghan has not looked back since then . |
| 13 | Both roles have involved handing out criticism , a task he has not held back from especially in this , the last year before he retires . |
| 14 | Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) . |
| 15 | One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping . |
| 16 | ‘ He has just come back from Canada and he will go back to Canada . ’ |
| 17 | A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ . |
| 18 | I 've just chap , one of my chaps has just come back off a three days , confined spaces , responsible person course . |
| 19 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 20 | Pierre Berton , who wrote the books , has just got back from Vancouver . |
| 21 | He travels with camels and has just got back . |
| 22 | The important one for us has just reported back . |
| 23 | ( In good humour he has already turned back to the mime : the two SPIES awaiting execution at the hands of the PLAYER ) Audiences know what to expect , and that is all that they are prepared to believe in . |
| 24 | The hardest hit Americans included Ed Ruscha , Donald Sultan and Frank Stella though Anthony Grant at Sotheby 's stresses that demand has already bounced back for top works by Julian Schnabel and others badly mauled in 1991 . |
| 25 | One of the men has already come back to Britain voluntarily , the older one is fighting extradition |
| 26 | She took over the premises behind the bus station in Middlesbrough ( opposite the car park and along from Macdonalds ) and has hardly looked back . |
| 27 | Since then the economic clamp-down has further cut back urban building projects , closed rural industries and increased restrictions on small-scale business . |
| 28 | ‘ She has always come back — she loves Anna very much . |
| 29 | The Chancellor has also cut back tax relief on relocation packages for employees . |
| 30 | The sociological debate about the relationship of the nuclear to the extended family has also swayed back and forth . |