Example sentences of "had [verb] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's hardly worth drawing the cheques in certain cases and the capital programme , could n't see it actually when I looked for it first time , had to go back to the pink sheet and found the noughts , now we 're not as generous as we 'd like to be , but at least we try . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The devilish smile , oblique and sharp as a scar , had come back to the gaunt face . |
| 4 | ‘ To us , he had come back from the dead , ’ his mother , Camilla Swann , said yesterday . |
| 5 | When Cardiff had come back from the dead , he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer . |
| 6 | We had come back like the full circle of our route , intact . |
| 7 | When the tide turned , we all had to struggle back to the large Irrawaddy steamer again . |
| 8 | The dark green sun umbrella above them threw shadows across Guy 's face , but she realised that the teasing gleam had crept back into the narrowed gaze . |
| 9 | Shiona had smiled back at the fair-haired youth who had so recently become her brother . |
| 10 | Before that the village 's only successful days had occurred back in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when it was a centre of the Basque whaling trade . |
| 11 | Dunwoody was surprised when the judge called him the winner on Remittance Man in the opening Bristol Novice Hurdle , believing Peter Scudamore had got back in the final strides on the favourite Regal Ambition after being headed halfway up the run-in . |
| 12 | It had been the Nordic states which had drawn back from the full implications of the Oslo and Ouchy Conventions of the 1930s . |
| 13 | When he had arrived back in the cold dawn that early morning after the night with Emily , it was to find his landlady Mrs McIntosh waiting , his valise and books by her , her face severe . |
| 14 | At the 18th green Manuel and Andy had walked back to the marked circle . |
| 15 | Besides having this example of baronial efficiency before his eyes , common sense might have suggested the importance of revealing at once the new conditions for ecclesiastical support which he had brought back from the Roman Council of 1099 . |
| 16 | The Socialist League and the Scottish Socialist Party had gone back to the Labour Party and many members of the Independent Socialist Party were to do so before long . |
| 17 | He had thought Lehmann had died intestate that his vast fortune had gone back to the Seven . |
| 18 | Back inside , Rafiq had gone back to the thousand-dollar question . |
| 19 | Having escorted Felicity Suvarov around St Mark 's cathedral , Julia had gone back to the Danieli hotel and shared some lunch with her . |
| 20 | A second " terrorist " had fled back to the eastern bank of the River Jordan . |
| 21 | Thus was sexual liberation defined by an almost exclusively male heterosexual group , drawing on old subversions — Dada , Surrealism , Beat , Situationism — diffused through the mass-market expansion into commercial sex that Playboy had pioneered back in the 1950s . |