Example sentences of "had [verb] back [prep] [art] [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 Last weekend she had gone home to visit her parents , and had come back with a huge bag crammed with brightly wrapped parcels from her mother and father , her three older , married sisters , and all the nieces and nephews they had produced between them .
5 ‘ To us , he had come back from the dead , ’ his mother , Camilla Swann , said yesterday .
6 When Cardiff had come back from the dead , he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer .
7 We had come back like the full circle of our route , intact .
8 When the tide turned , we all had to struggle back to the large Irrawaddy steamer again .
9 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 .
10 Shiona had smiled back at the fair-haired youth who had so recently become her brother .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 She had drawn back from a direct confrontation again , Guy realised .
14 It had been the Nordic states which had drawn back from the full implications of the Oslo and Ouchy Conventions of the 1930s .
15 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 .
16 At the 18th green Manuel and Andy had walked back to the marked circle .
17 Erlich came close to her , kneeling on the rug he knew that Harry had brought back from a fast run to Beirut .
18 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 .
19 She had swayed back into an upright position and reverted to a tone of easy confidence .
20 Saussure , third on Mont Blanc , had to turn back from a surveying expedition when his 17 guides mutinied , throwing his food down the mountain !
21 Fergus had gone back into a deep sleep .
22 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 .
23 He had thought Lehmann had died intestate that his vast fortune had gone back to the Seven .
24 Back inside , Rafiq had gone back to the thousand-dollar question .
25 Having escorted Felicity Suvarov around St Mark 's cathedral , Julia had gone back to the Danieli hotel and shared some lunch with her .
26 I felt I had stepped back into a thirties ' film and that in the morning , when we went down into the bar for café au lait , Arletty and Jean Gabin would be leaning on the zinc counter .
27 Once again Congress had struck back against an overweening executive branch .
28 A second " terrorist " had fled back to the eastern bank of the River Jordan .
29 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 .
30 Slowly but inevitably they had drifted back into a loving relationship , culminating three months ago in their engagement .
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