Example sentences of "had [vb pp] back [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In just a few days he had pushed back the horizons of her world far out of sight . |
| 2 | Now he was into jazz because he 'd heard that the Yuppies had hijacked it after Clint Eastwood 's film on Charlie Parker , and had moved back a decade to the late ‘ forties . |
| 3 | On the second night at the caravan she had slid back the partition between his bed and hers and had walked quietly up to his bed and had stood gravely looking down at him . |
| 4 | The Marshal had called back a number of times and each time the woman 's sobs had had a note of triumph in them . |
| 5 | Then there was the news that El Daba airfield was not being used , though Jellicoe had brought back a couple of German prisoners who freely volunteered the information that this was the most important of their forward airfields . |
| 6 | Her first sight of a submarine had brought back the pain of Gerry 's death and she 'd had to tell herself that those in the loch were ours , so they could n't be all that bad . |
| 7 | Twoflower , meanwhile , had thrown back the lid of the Luggage and was hastily pulling out a heavy black cube . |
| 8 | THE KILLING of 11 Royal Marines bandsmen in the Deal Barracks explosion had put back the cause of the IRA , Dr Robert Runcie , the Archbishop of Canterbury , said during the memorial service to the victims at Canterbury Cathedral yesterday . |
| 9 | French relief workers claimed that the Djibouti government and French army officers stationed in Djibouti had sent back a group of refugees across the border into an inhospitable desert region of Ethiopia on June 2 ; however , the French Foreign Ministry denied that there had been any forcible expulsions from Djibouti . |
| 10 | Senior officers may or may not have been involved , but they certainly made public their opposition to party politicians who had held back the growth of military expenditure in budget balancing financial policies . |
| 11 | And only after he had paid back every penny of his debt on the new barrow and been left with hardly any spare cash to talk of did he begin to realise just how good a costermonger the old fellow must have been . |