Example sentences of "he have [vb pp] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hypnotists working for the police ask an individual , most commonly a witness or a victim , to imagine that he has gone back to the time of the crime . |
| 2 | The manager who took Sunderland to Wembley six months ago knows that he 's still not out of the woods , but he has turned back the clock in a bid to stay in business . |
| 3 | He knows when to turn back and he has turned back frequently when things are n't right . |
| 4 | Porterfield said : ‘ We watched him in action against Barcelona and he has come back to train with us again . |
| 5 | He has come back a wiser player and he will add drive to the team . ’ |
| 6 | He has come back with a bang , and the film of Jurassic Park opens in July , which will obviously help his sales . |
| 7 | While undergoing an operation his heart has stopped , but he has come back to life after having been declared dead and deposited in a coffin . |
| 8 | ‘ He has come back , ’ he said . |
| 9 | He has wooed back respected figures who had quit Pasok , and enticed one former conservative minister , Yannis Boutos , to join him . |
| 10 | In 1856 he exhibits on his lawn a stuffed crocodile he has brought back from the East : enabling it to bask in the sun again for the first time in 3,000 years . |
| 11 | Is the Prime Minister aware , first , that people will want to study in detail what he has brought back and will need far more time to do that , and , secondly , that a treaty committing us to a European union probably represents an even bigger change than our entry into the Community in 1975 , the long-term effect of which over many Parliaments will be great ? |
| 12 | ’ cheery voice and shrill whistle will be sadly missed in Malt Dispatch by all the drivers he has guided back on to the doings ! |
| 13 | His shirt is frayed at the sleeves where he has rolled back the cuffs , his skin shows brown down the open front , there are small dark hairs , a glistening drop of sweat . |
| 14 | He 'd gone back to his stew , and silence . |
| 15 | He liked his porter , but if he 'd gone back to the stable … |
| 16 | If he 'd gone back to Zimbala it would have brought disgrace on the family . |
| 17 | We all used to bite our lips and nod wisely at these theological conundrums , holding our breath until he 'd gone back upstairs before dissolving into laughter . |
| 18 | He 'd gone back into the hotel , trying to act casually , and had hovered in reception looking at the magazines in the hardcovers , watching the man explaining to the people in the hut and coming back inside , which confirmed Cormack 's suspicions . |
| 19 | Or maybe he 'd gone back to patch things up with his fiancée ? |
| 20 | Oh it 's so funny , cos the second time he could n't , he came back and I think I was upstairs , and she did n't shut the door and I said all four , cos I 've got to pick her up at five , he said oh , anyway he went back , after dinner he 'd gone back and I said told you about it 's five o'clock , he said are you on me . |
| 21 | On his first excursion he 'd seen a Mercedes parked outside so he 'd turned back , returned to his hotel room further down The Street . |
| 22 | ‘ … but , with their parents in hospital , I feel any such move would be counter-productive , ’ he 'd added curtly , dismissing the subject as he 'd turned back to the pile of papers in front of him . |
| 23 | He 'd begun back in the fifties as a prison officer . |
| 24 | Maybe he 'd flown back to deal rapidly with Sarah Chester 's , so that he was free of any embarrassing need to meet up with her again ? |
| 25 | He 'd kept back a portion of corned beef for the purpose . |
| 26 | She 'd assumed he 'd driven back to London , but maybe he had n't . |
| 27 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Sometimes I imagined that he 'd sneaked back into the country and was leading another life . |
| 30 | He 'd stayed there ( ‘ in Didcart ’ ) much longer than he 'd intended ; and when finally he tore himself away from the Cornish Riviera and the Torbay Express he 'd walked back to Didcot Parkway Station at about five o'clock , and caught the next train back to Oxford , where he 'd , er , where he 'd had a quick drink in the Station Buffet . |