Example sentences of "have [vb pp] back a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has come back a wiser player and he will add drive to the team . ’ |
| 2 | He stood smiling , licking his own with relish , and wiping the ends of his moustaches where the ice dung to them , and you and Lucia , befuddled from your interrupted sleep echoed his gurgles and grunts of pleasure at the taste ; he 'd brought back a tub , filled with a variety of ice creams : ‘ A macedonia ! ’ he 'd call out , a fruit salad of ices . |
| 3 | Over the years , she 'd kept back a portion , every week , of the money Wakelate gave her to buy food at the market . |
| 4 | He 'd kept back a portion of corned beef for the purpose . |
| 5 | Having slugged back a glass of plum brandy , she says : ‘ I 'm a good Christian , but I 'll not turn the other cheek if some Albanian plucks out the eyes of a fellow Serb , or rapes a little girl , or castrates a 12-year-old Serbian boy … |
| 6 | Even if he did win , the owner would buy him in after the race , so that Boardwalk would have paid back a small fraction of his training costs . |
| 7 | Rare Bear had fallen back a little . |
| 8 | He had leaned back a little , brushing her hair back softly with his fingers , pausing to gaze long and deep into her eyes . |
| 9 | They 'd lost their way a little , they 've come back a little and they 're going to win this Anglo-Italian match . |
| 10 | Yet , before , on their secret dates , Rab had been most punctual — a big smile and hug for her — while she , to have him more keen , had hung back a little late . |
| 11 | Rose had moved back a little to stand in front of one of the shop windows , scanning the crowd with knowing eyes . |
| 12 | Now he was into jazz because he 'd heard that the Yuppies had hijacked it after Clint Eastwood 's film on Charlie Parker , and had moved back a decade to the late ‘ forties . |
| 13 | The Marshal had called back a number of times and each time the woman 's sobs had had a note of triumph in them . |
| 14 | In a case which occurred some time between 1037 and 1054 , the abbot of Marmoutier complained in Geoffrey Martel 's court that a certain Bouchard had seized back a mill which his brother , with Bouchard 's consent , had earlier bestowed on the abbey . |
| 15 | It had sprung back an inch or two — was open . |
| 16 | Then there was the news that El Daba airfield was not being used , though Jellicoe had brought back a couple of German prisoners who freely volunteered the information that this was the most important of their forward airfields . |
| 17 | Edward , brooding , remembered a summer long ago when Helen had brought back a schoolfriend and he had felt pushed aside , abandoned . |
| 18 | Between June 3 and June 6 Teddy Taylor , a United Kingdom Conservative MP , informed the UK Foreign Office that he had met with Col. Moamer al Kadhafi and Foreign Minister Ibrahim Bishara on a recent visit to Libya ; he had brought back a " package of proposals " for restoring relations between the two countries , and a £250,000 cheque for a UK police charity from the Libyan police union . |
| 19 | French relief workers claimed that the Djibouti government and French army officers stationed in Djibouti had sent back a group of refugees across the border into an inhospitable desert region of Ethiopia on June 2 ; however , the French Foreign Ministry denied that there had been any forcible expulsions from Djibouti . |
| 20 | Oh he 's dropped back a bit . |
| 21 | If Sid put £100 ( $175 ) into each of the big privatisations and sold his shares on the first day of trading — as many such investors did — he would ( before expenses ) have got back an extra 41% . |
| 22 | I can not remember a previous time when we have bought back a former council house . |
| 23 | This was a wonderful opportunity to continue to network European wide and the WASL representatives have brought back a good range of catalogues and information about new women artists groups for the archive . |
| 24 | And er certainly Amanda who who 's on strike then you know I mean they do n't get equal pay the women the the the three women that came out I mean one of them 's gone back an Amanda and Helen you know I mean they they were on they were on terribly low wages . |
| 25 | The family have kept back a lot of material at the manor . |