Example sentences of "have [vb pp] back [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first case , elitism does not provide an explanation , being merely a loose term to describe a social category about which other features rather than the elite characteristic provide what explanation there is ; in the second case , the power elite looks remarkably like a social class , and elite explanation has come back full circle to its point of departure . |
| 2 | Erm , most of it grown , it 'd grown back and it has grown back funny |
| 3 | He has wooed back respected figures who had quit Pasok , and enticed one former conservative minister , Yannis Boutos , to join him . |
| 4 | AT&T Microelectronics has bought back worldwide marketing rights in the ISDN chip it developed for Sun Sparcstation 10s and has contracted with CoSystems Inc to sell and support the widget . |
| 5 | The mission then cross-checked the names with those of people repatriated to Namibia through the UN High Commissioner for Refugees programme , which has brought back 41,000 Namibians , including most Swapo guerrillas . |
| 6 | Recession has brought back racial politics . |
| 7 | ‘ It has pulled back several miles . |
| 8 | North America and Europe are catching up fast , but it is appropriate that a Japanese company has gone back 30 years for a discarded technology to solve some of the problems . |
| 9 | has paid back eight thousand pounds of the money he stole . |
| 10 | The barrier has held back both sides . |
| 11 | Having fallen back 4 to 19p late on Wednesday , a badly handled ‘ sell ’ order yesterday morning had market makers scrambling to cut back prices . |
| 12 | Having bought back this establishment from his former employers , Trusthouse Forte , his new freedom from the body corporate has inspired him to create a serious £23 dinner menu and leave the comfortable grey-blue decor well alone . |
| 13 | He could n't have got back last night . |
| 14 | Team owner Frank Williams denied Mansell 's allegations , saying : ‘ No protest could have brought back those 10 points . |
| 15 | It was one of those rare occasions when a covert operation could be examined in the full glare of publicity and it showed what a foolhardy idea it was from the start for , even if Crabb had returned safely , it is unlikely he could have brought back enough information to have justified the risk in the first place . |
| 16 | I said you should have brought back ninety five pounds he said it 's ten pounds extra . |
| 17 | It would be surprising if less prosperous sections of the community had not been equally attacked by disease at this time , and casualties of that extent would certainly have set back any recovery of the population . |
| 18 | We must demand that these laws be abolished because if this government has its way , the working man will have gone back one hundred years . |
| 19 | I mean really what he should have done if it , if it was that difficult he should have gone back another half a brick and the j bricked it up all the way |
| 20 | It should have gone back last week , and I |
| 21 | Kuwait , for example , was only expected to have cut back half its pledged 400,000 bpd , maintaining production above its 1,500,000 bpd quota . |
| 22 | I remember seeing his ball disappear into what I thought was sand dunes left , but he 'd hit a woman on the head and nearly killed her , and his ball had flown back 60 or 70 yards into the fairway . |
| 23 | Kyle had won back two strokes with birdies at the 15th and 16th , but Des O'Grady had lost a ball off his drive at the 17th . |
| 24 | Lessing consulted Dinah , who had come back tired from an evening full of accidents ; the scenery had fallen , the lesser lady had not come in on cue , the leading man had been a failure and she would have to find someone else . |
| 25 | I had come back blind . |
| 26 | Finally she returned to her dorm , terrified not so much at the prospect of getting caught but because she had come back empty handed . |
| 27 | The three young men had moved back some twenty or thirty feet , but were still watching Jessica . |
| 28 | Dave had foreseen some difficulty and had moved back left to get into a better position to assist Steve , just below him . |
| 29 | He had got back that night , had n't he ? |
| 30 | Boris had got back two months early to organise it . |