Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] back [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | United Airlines and American Airlines I 've been told are n't really all that good to fly with , mate of ours went up to the airport to pick his parents up , they just got back from a holiday in and er they flew and a , on a seven hour journey , where ever it was they come from , they did n't have any food , no food , nothing , what they done is they , they , they 'd taken a container off , but they had n't put a new one on . |
| 2 | Labov reports ( personal communication ) that in his early work he once played back to a woman a tape-recording of her own casual speech to prove to her that her image of her accent was inaccurate . |
| 3 | She had come rather out of her way and now walked back along a square where a learned society had its premises . |
| 4 | So Adam at least came back with a grain of comfort , though for the dead Harry , not the living . |
| 5 | I recently came back from a trip to Egypt and despite the fact that I enjoyed the food there , I had an urge to make a really wholesome fish pie . |