Example sentences of "[vb pp] back [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some German agents must have stood out like sore thumbs ( One , codenamed ‘ Garbo ’ , could never figure out English pounds , shillings , and pence , and once reported back to Berlin from Glasgow that there were men there ‘ who would do anything for a litre of wine ’ ( p. 112 ) . ) |
| 2 | Her father had been an economist , who had come back to Europe with Woodrow Wilson to try to hammer something workable out of the ruins of the Great War , and after that the family had divided themselves between the USA and Britain . |
| 3 | His only son — well provided in those days with cash — had come back to Europe in the early ‘ thirties with little in his mind except escape . |
| 4 | While undergoing an operation his heart has stopped , but he has come back to life after having been declared dead and deposited in a coffin . |
| 5 | The father pleaded with the elder brother and tried to point out to him that it was only right to celebrate for it was as if the younger son had come back to life from the dead . |
| 6 | He told the doctors all about how my dad had come back to life in this grey cardigan and had told him the secrets of the universe . |
| 7 | My parents , who had come back to Hastings from their exile in Somerset to fish and clean , as they always did , had braved all and were coming to the wedding . |
| 8 | Meanwhile their investigation had received help from Roxie Farmer 's reluctant admission that her brother had been staying with her , and that he had gone off one day , borrowing her former husband 's bike , and had come back with blood on him . |
| 9 | One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping . |
| 10 | She remembered that fated evening when she had come back from Wimbledon after seeing Hindley Foster . |
| 11 | Would they find each other much changed , or would it be like it was when he had come back from school for the holidays ? |
| 12 | McFarlane had come back from London in December 1985 disgusted with the bartering , repelled by Ghorbanifar and wanting to abandon the operation . |
| 13 | No he 's just come back from Tunisia on holiday so he 'll need it . |
| 14 | The British army had come back from Dunkirk with nothing but its rifles . |
| 15 | Peter had come back from hospital in his own but in tearing good spirits . |
| 16 | Mr Major was expected back in London at midnight , after his 12-hour visit . |
| 17 | ‘ Individually a few have done , ’ said his new colleague Sarah , ‘ but they get squeezed back into line by the West . ’ |
| 18 | The conference over , Henry was carried back to Chinon on a litter and there , on 6 July 1189 , he died . |
| 19 | But one grey-haired uplander disappeared into a hole below a boulder and was pulled out by the hair and carried back towards Keltney on a stretcher of cut branches . |
| 20 | Captain Lawton and his men seem to have had a fairly trouble-free time of it , because all 15 of them were duly discharged back in London after the seven-month voyage . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , when he was deported back to Russia for spying the CIA suggested Bailey as a possible replacement to take over as the Colonel 's number two . |
| 22 | The use of sage , whether for medicinal or culinary purposes , dated back in Europe at least several centuries B.C. when it was listed in Theophrastus " writings on plants . |
| 23 | It is only necessary to refer to the second of those cases which were decisions of this court , because in the judgments in the second of those cases , reference is made back to Brown v. Draper . |
| 24 | Shaken to have found herself so suddenly envious of Liz 's happy home life , and startled to realise that no amount of money could create these comfortable surroundings , Laura was jerked back to reality by the sound of Ross 's voice . |
| 25 | Parallel trade is now so well established that Health Department payments to pharmacists can be clawed back for sales of discounted drugs . |
| 26 | Dudley Clarke had been the only casualty , hit in the ear , which had been sewn back in place by a petty officer as the boat left the beach . |
| 27 | When Cliff was transferred back to Watford in early May 1965 our supporters were much displeased but today Cliff is remembered at Selhurst Park with enormous pleasure by those who were privileged to see him play , and he was , without question , one of the most inspiring players ever to have appeared in the Palace colours . |
| 28 | There was confusion , however , over the position of the two central banks , Gosbank and Vneshekonombank ( Bank for foreign economic relations ) , whose responsibilities were transferred back from RSFSR to central control on Aug. 29 , and whose chairmen , respectively Viktor Gerashchenko and Yuri Moskovsky were reinstated , according to the Financial Times of Aug. 30 , partly as a result of pressure from European banks . |
| 29 | Pauline Simonescu , finding the austerities of post-war London bad for business , had moved back to Paris at about the same time he , too , had returned , from Oxford . |
| 30 | It is very clear here that Ritschl had moved back behind Schleiermacher towards Kant 's linking of religion with ‘ practical reason ’ . |