Example sentences of "had [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daak had jumped back into the cabin . |
| 2 | Yes , we had stumbled back in time all right , to those days of portion control when catering managers were gods , working miracles of loaves and fishes on ever smaller plates filled with dry greenery and tomatoes cut like starfish . |
| 3 | Rasari , a soldier with the Fijian contingent in the UN Peacekeeping Force in the Lebanon , had flown back to Fiji specifically for trials in preparation for this title defence . |
| 4 | The Qulis — who were met by police at Heathrow — had flown back from Dublin after collecting Farrah from Limerick . |
| 5 | He had a high-rolling joint on the SS Nocturne , a ship anchored outside the limits , and some nasty rumours had floated back on the tides along with a well-dressed corpse or two . |
| 6 | The girl in the mirror was a total contrast to the haunted image which had stared back at her a few hours earlier . |
| 7 | In fact everything that I am not , she thought swiftly , remembering the sickly pale face with its halo of tousled auburn curls , and the huge , startled green eyes that had stared back at her from the bathroom mirror only moments ago . |
| 8 | As Dean Acheson had commented back in 1962 , Britain had indeed lost an empire yet failed to find a post-imperial role . |
| 9 | The one drawback was that news of his success had travelled back to England . |
| 10 | He had travelled back to Keswick with her even though it had not been his previous intention to do so . |
| 11 | By 1713 she had travelled back to England to oversee the Wilsthorpe estate . |
| 12 | Elvis had travelled back to the dawn of mankind and persuaded God to let him do it his way . |
| 13 | He was told to imagine that he had travelled back in time to the afternoon of the abduction and was watching the events unfold on a television documentary . |
| 14 | Simon had swivelled back to me and handed me a piece of paper with an address in Theobalds Road . |
| 15 | Fergus had fallen back across the table and Taliesin and Fribble both moved to stand between him and the Lad . |
| 16 | Then it turned out there was a glut of oil ; within a week , petrol prices had fallen back to pre-August levels . |
| 17 | * The price of cereals in Somali markets , it says , had fallen back to their seasonal levels even before American soldiers arrived last December . |
| 18 | Unemployment in the UK peaked at 17 per cent in 1932 but had fallen back to its 1920s level of 8 per cent by 1937 . |
| 19 | Jake turned and looked urgently at his son ; but Adam 's gaze had fallen back to Undry , and Ruth was n't sure he 'd heard . |
| 20 | But Dyson 's opinion of him , which had risen noticeably on hearing that he had been at King 's , had fallen back to zero again ; his having been at King 's was cancelled out by his having been right about his instructions to join Dyson 's department . |
| 21 | According to the National Statistics Office , the inflation rate in December rose to 14.1 per cent , the highest rate since Aquino came to power , although by January the rate had fallen back to 13.1 per cent , compared with 12.8 per cent for November 1989 . |
| 22 | The Gold Coast had fallen back from the situation 50 years earlier when English-educated Africans had played a leading part in administration , Christian leadership , the judiciary and the learned professions . |
| 23 | The US dollar , which had peaked at US$1.00=DM1.85 during May and June 1991 from a February trough of 1.44 , had fallen back by the end of November to below 1.6 , as early hopes of a rapid recovery in US consumer spending faded , and as unfavourable indicators in the employment market coincided with news of a disappointing trade balance in September . |
| 24 | He had tried to rise above them , and had fallen back among them , there to be hated once for his attempt , and twice for his failure ! |
| 25 | Cork , who had dropped back into midfield , dashed to meet Reading full-back Steve Richardson in a race for the ball but he hoisted his attempted back pass over the stranded Prudhoe . |
| 26 | Cork , who had dropped back into midfield , dashed to meet Reading full-back Steve Richardson in a race for the ball and hoisted his attempted back pass over the stranded Prudhoe . |
| 27 | Bertha had sat back with the satisfied air of having played a trump card , until suddenly her lip had quivered as tears filled her eyes . |
| 28 | And she might have accepted that but for the wry flicker in the eyes of the reflection that had looked back at her from the bathroom mirror . |
| 29 | The callous incident of the heat sink … but then : hands linked in the Tunnel of Terror … the upper-habber had come back for his two companions , for whatever reason … |
| 30 | Toby had come back for the moment . |