Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] back [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angie Bowie : ‘ The Christmas before recording ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , I had flown back home to see my parents . |
| 2 | She 'd packed her bags knowing that whatever else happened she had to go back home to find out from her mother just who her father was . |
| 3 | ‘ I had to come back here to return to the basic me-ness . |
| 4 | He had played in Spain but after a car accident had come back here to recuperate . |
| 5 | Tyson 's past had come back eerily to haunt him — this time not in street violence but in the way Desiree Washington , a competitor in the Miss America Pageant accused him of the crimes that were to see the world heavyweight champion 's status reduced to that of a common criminal . |
| 6 | Perhaps he had discovered a seam — did you have a seam of garnet ? — and had come back secretly to exploit it , and … |
| 7 | For once the lawyer had concluded his business , having called upon both his own groom and Mrs Elswick to witness the document he had drawn up , and had been seen off the premises , Theda had gone back upstairs to find her employer in a state of near-collapse . |