Example sentences of "have [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
| 2 | In the case of Caloris some of the ejecta from the impact would have fallen back into the basin because of the fairly high surface gravity . |
| 3 | Sir Geoffrey Littler , a former senior Treasury official and a director of NatWest Investment Bank , together witha group of eight City worthies , will have reported back to another committee established by the Exchange giving an interim assessment of the issues involved . |
| 4 | in nineteen eighty nine if I recall there was a divisional structure which er comprised of a number of companies within the division and there was a managing director of that division who would have reported back to the board |
| 5 | Had the musician not been married , he would n't have reported back to his boss . |
| 6 | But Guido was there all right ; he must have come back without Ronni knowing , and he was facing Silvia in the enormous hallway , a fulminating tower of bristling black anger . |
| 7 | You would n't have come back with me anyway . |
| 8 | He could have come back on that one , if he 'd really tried , but sometimes it was much easier to lie on the floor and watch the lights on the ceiling and listen to the count going on . |
| 9 | would have come back at M S three . |
| 10 | He 'd have come back at the weekend , most likely . |
| 11 | But he could not have come back at a more opportune time as far as Selkirk are concerned . |
| 12 | ‘ If he was alive , he 'd have come back to us ! |
| 13 | Top flight football should have come back to The Valley . |
| 14 | I 'd never have come back to Liverpool only the firm sent me here to fix something up on the docks twelve months before this lot started , so I was just unlucky . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If we had given this young lad the car , people could have come back to us and said we had broken the rules , ’ the hotel owner said . |
| 16 | Possibly , they might not have come back from that either . |
| 17 | Castration was what I would have recommended back in England , where there is less space for dogs to wander and where welfare considerations for a dog out on his own are obviously of prime concern . |
| 18 | This had several squares of very heavy , dark grey woollen cloth which Mum told me came from her own great grandmother 's cloak , so presumably could well have dated back to the eighteenth century . |
| 19 | Had it not been for another round of cost cutting , the group would have crept back into the black last year . |
| 20 | Jon , as he proudly watched the Union Jack raised above his head , must have thought back to the days when , as Oxford University Boat Race president , the only flag he looked at was the skull and crossbones which hung in his study with a menacing message written underneath : ‘ Death Zone — No Prisoners . ’ |
| 21 | He would have liked to give more information , ask someone to research the final days of the tsar ; but he knew that would only have got back to the KGB , and in this game secrecy was the only key he held . |
| 22 | He may well have been scorned , he may well have lost his job bad word may have got back to Rome , they may have sent the telegrams back to Caesar telling him all about Pilate , but it was n't sufficient reason for him rejecting Christ . |
| 23 | The end came rather suddenly , so I could n't have got back in time to see her , but I flew over as soon as I was free , to see what had to be done . |
| 24 | Moreover , if they were to break through within the established system then they just might be a little less enthusiastic about introducing proportional representation as " a first priority " since it could let one of the parties they would have displaced back into the game . |
| 25 | Serafin may have been Russian , may have disappeared back to Russia . |
| 26 | ‘ If that 's the case , the saboteur would n't have walked back to Cartier but up to some vantage point from where he could watch the smash . ’ |
| 27 | The old lady would have walked back to her villa , but Miguel stopped her by closing the door , and insisting that she wait for a golf cart . |
| 28 | Mitterrand , a staunch defender of French culture , may be a reluctant participant at the event , although his original objections must have melted back in 1987 when the American company said that with this , the fourth of its parks ( there are two in the United States and one outside Tokyo ) , it would create 12,000 jobs … |
| 29 | We may have slipped back in some fields , but in others ( such as molecular biology or pharmaceutical research ) we remain world leaders . |
| 30 | Southampton should have hit back after 28 minutes when Carl Tiler pulled down Nicky Banger . |