Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt , by doing that , I had effectively stepped back in time and discovered the one thing that should have been thought of before we even harnessed electricity . |
| 2 | Those who had perhaps drawn back after much involvement came out of retirement to lead the church more effectively than ever before . |
| 3 | How clearly it had all come back to her — even the piping treble of her own childish voice . |
| 4 | The excitement had all come back . |
| 5 | She had emigrated with half her family to England when a baby , but they had all come back the night an auntie 's house in Derry had been seen on TV news , with the sofa flying from an upstairs window and loyalist thugs pouring petrol on the geraniums . |
| 6 | Usually , what with shooting and swimming with the others and riding up at Biddy 's , he had only got back to the garden shed in time to flake out until morning . |
| 7 | But she still did n't have any idea why he had suddenly barged back into her life like this . |
| 8 | ‘ My family were Huguenots , my lady , and therefore unwanted in la belle France , ’ D'Alembord 's contemptuous scorn for France made the Countess bridle , but he had already turned back to Lucille . |
| 9 | T'zin had already turned back to meet Alexei 's eyes . |
| 10 | Only I went to Donald Stewart 's smithy and Mary was there , chatting to her mother , so by the time I had fixed things up with Donald and went along to Grandtully to explain the plan to Alex , Mary had already gone back and told him . |
| 11 | ‘ The notebook had already gone back with another Kazakh climber who had returned early , but I gather that it was written in English . |
| 12 | The woman , the baby and the speaker had already gone back inside . |
| 13 | When they returned to Liverpool Joe , Eileen and Stephen , and John 's brother Mick , had already gone back , but at a family gathering John was soon involved in an argument . |
| 14 | A spokeswoman for Barclays Bank stressed that British banks had already cut back their lending in response to earlier warnings . |
| 15 | He possessed a basic human right and she had already held back too long . |
| 16 | ‘ Not yet , ’ said Scarlet , who had already slugged back a double . |
| 17 | The French boy looked up sharply at his father , but the familiar expressionless mask had already settled back on his face . |
| 18 | Others present included Lord David Cecil , who had lately come back to Oxford to teach English Literature at New College , and Adam Fox , the college chaplain . |
| 19 | She had finally hit back ! |
| 20 | He took up his claret , drank , and moved to an anecdote which he had found scarcely ever failed and would surely , he was convinced , see him through this supper party as the man of wide travel , wide curiosity , the aristocratic rover who had finally come back home to live by the more profound , more refined things of life . |
| 21 | As he had finally got back to Mrs Lorimer 's and was washing his face , he was wondering how much of the dirty water of the drug scene had washed over Rose and Steve . |
| 22 | The educated classes had just stood back as the aspiring politician and the over-eager Methodist forced the showmen into a reliance on the melodramatic and the romantic . |
| 23 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 24 | Sandra had just arrived back in time to hear Mrs Foster 's grim assessment of the situation . |
| 25 | Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea . |
| 26 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 27 | Tremayne made more than his usual fuss over Fiona , sensing some sort of turmoil , telling her comfortably that Mackie had just come back from Ascot races where he 'd sent a runner for the apprentice race which had proved a total waste of time . |
| 28 | When she had finished she turned to Nara , who had just come back with the things she needed and was peering round the door , as if he was too scared of her magic to come right in . |
| 29 | Lee had just come back from shopping . |
| 30 | At last week-end 's ICA conference , the film generated a single comment , from a producer on Channel 4 's Out series , Claire Beavan , who had just come back from America where she was making a programme about Hollywood homophobia . |