Example sentences of "have [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have given back to the Reich the provinces stolen from us in 1919 . |
| 2 | Insecure Christian men feeling threatened have fallen back on the Scriptures with authoritarian tunnel vision , while Christian women are learning Greek and Hebrew in order to find a loophole to invalidate this ‘ yoke of bondage ’ . |
| 3 | THE Tories have fallen back on a quack cure for the economic ills they are forcing upon our country — even higher prescription charges . |
| 4 | The ICI shares have fallen back from £14 to near £10 . |
| 5 | De Gaulle 's strident language suggested a fundamentally unsympathetic attitude towards the pieds noirs — an attitude which some have traced back to the latter 's wartime Vichyism , others to the General 's aversion for Mediterranean temperaments or to his incomprehension of the pieds noirs ' " tortured double identity — half French , half Algerian " . |
| 6 | Not only did the existence of a divided society help fuel party tensions under William and Anne , but taking the longer perspective covered by this book as a whole , it might even be fair to suggest that the emergence of the party divide amongst the political elite was itself a symptom of the bitter divisions that already existed in this society , divisions which we have traced back to the Restoration in 1660 . |
| 7 | Secondly Chairman I would like to draw the Councillors ' attention to the fact that I 'm this years representative on the South East Waste Regulation Advisory Committee and we have indeed got in hand a project which is to look at the whole of the recycling and the priorities for the South East region and I would imagine that by the time our officers have reported back to this Authority that they will have an advantage of having access to that report . |
| 8 | yeah , so why do they call him Harry all the time , Harry for a boy , that 's awful I mean a lot of the old names , we talked about the other day , a lot of the old names have come back for children , but I mean I do n't think Harry should be |
| 9 | It 's amazing some of the things that have come back to me . |
| 10 | I have come back to the international scene with a fierce rival in Phil Tufnell , with Ian Salisbury breathing down our necks and Hampshire 's young Sean Udal making great strides every season . |
| 11 | They also believe that , like Zacchaeus , many people who have come back to God desire to make amends for their past . |
| 12 | ‘ They have come back to you now , Maria , ’ I said . |
| 13 | Then I became a vagrant and travelled far and nowhere ; now I have come back to be near Callanish again , though quite where I shall go I do n't know . |
| 14 | The general point here and I want to make is that er , these are n't officers ' promises these are the members ' promises and er , erm , we 've got to be careful that er when they 're all drawn together that we are n't making a hostage fortune , erm and so that I think it is very important members take aboard er what is suggested and test them themselves to see that they are realistic , I would also say that er as these promises are being considered by the various committees and I note a considerable variation in standards which will need to be addressed when the promises er , have come back to the Policy Committee , these are particularly in reference to the time required to respond to er , erm complaints etc , it 's no use having the Highways Committee wanting two weeks and incidentally on promise number two erm I think that er any up , somebody else 's point er straight forward wants to be deleted , erm the highways require two weeks to respond er , erm hearts and libraries want a , you know half a day , er and we 've got to get these er erm more or less synchronized I think , and whilst I 'm thinking Chairman on the last page er of the er favourite for , for first for agent authorities , but it does n't give any indication about the contact point and as most of our population live in the agent authorities that the er it needs to be expanded to give the contacts er points for the members of the public . |
| 15 | But he 's moaning to me the other week about you know , er and I bloody near said to him , well er , things have come back on you know , but I should of |
| 16 | After only getting 7 points compared to my target of 10 from the first 6 games , the lads have come back with 14 from the next 6 . |
| 17 | They should also be in frequent contact with all of the somewhat numerous organisations involved in the rural development of the Western Isles , and with the admirable young people who have come back from the mainland to work at the grass-roots level . |
| 18 | The important thing to remember , however , is that in many cases no definitive diagnosis can be made until the results have come back from the laboratory and the fact that nothing has been found at the time of the first visit does not mean that the follow-up visit should be missed . |
| 19 | Yes , this has always been a problem , but it has become worse recently , I am afraid , because of the people who have been made redundant and who have come back from Germany . |
| 20 | I mean , I know that a lot of the calls they get are practical , people have come back from the Gulf with no money , no home , I mean they 've lived there for years and years and years , without the family network sometimes to keep them going , or friends , friends , they 've , they 've lost all of their , and it 's , it 's not easy . |
| 21 | You have come back in a funny mood . |
| 22 | We have written back to about 200 of them offering them the chance to attend the gymnasium . ’ |
| 23 | I mean I have gone to the trouble , I have been in to see the planning officer that 's dealing with it , erm I 've written to every single member of the planning committee , I 've written to the Environmental Health who have written back to me saying they offer no objections and there because the smell wo n't be a problem so I 've written them back another stinking letter and saying well erm |
| 24 | In effect , landlords have clawed back for themselves an increasing proportion of rate relief on premises within enterprise zones . |
| 25 | I have got back on the adrenalin and enthusiasm for these first few matches and hopefully in the next six weeks you will see the best of me . ’ |
| 26 | A few stayed where they were sent — there are many fishermen in Louisiana and Texas — but many have filtered back to Orange county . |
| 27 | We have slipped back to a state of affairs which would be intolerable even in Naples . ’ |
| 28 | Others have slipped back to their old ways . |
| 29 | Cambridge have slipped back in recent weeks . |
| 30 | Shares have slipped back from a high of 440p and a lot of the blame lies with its US offshoot Keebler . |