Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] back [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
| 2 | But Guido was there all right ; he must have come back without Ronni knowing , and he was facing Silvia in the enormous hallway , a fulminating tower of bristling black anger . |
| 3 | would have come back at M S three . |
| 4 | I 'd never have come back to Liverpool only the firm sent me here to fix something up on the docks twelve months before this lot started , so I was just unlucky . ’ |
| 5 | Castration was what I would have recommended back in England , where there is less space for dogs to wander and where welfare considerations for a dog out on his own are obviously of prime concern . |
| 6 | He may well have been scorned , he may well have lost his job bad word may have got back to Rome , they may have sent the telegrams back to Caesar telling him all about Pilate , but it was n't sufficient reason for him rejecting Christ . |
| 7 | The end came rather suddenly , so I could n't have got back in time to see her , but I flew over as soon as I was free , to see what had to be done . |
| 8 | Serafin may have been Russian , may have disappeared back to Russia . |
| 9 | ‘ If that 's the case , the saboteur would n't have walked back to Cartier but up to some vantage point from where he could watch the smash . ’ |
| 10 | They might not be in , Mum will 've gone to the supermarket and Dad 'll have gone back to work . |
| 11 | We work with about 60 women a year , and I know many of them would genuinely say that at the start they were unemployable , that they could have gone back to drugs , ended up back in prison , but they did n't because Clean Break was there at the right time for them , to give them the opportunities they needed . |
| 12 | If Dire Straits had n't been so successful , would you have carried on as a circuit band , or would you have gone back to teaching or journalism ? |
| 13 | Joe should have gone back to school the previous week but it was being used as an evacuation centre . |
| 14 | But we had to move quickly otherwise Colin would have gone back to Barnsley because his loan spell was over . ’ |
| 15 | She looked down into her drink and answered evasively , ‘ I suppose I could have gone back to Darlington , but I preferred to stay down here . ’ |
| 16 | It is sad that such talent and thought should create such a nightmarish and harrowing depiction of mental handicap , which left viewers saddened and stunned by what they saw , and may have put back for years the progress towards a real understanding of mental handicap among the general public . |
| 17 | Ironically , Rockefeller was exactly that type of capitalist he would have despised back in England . |
| 18 | He could have doubled back to Gainsborough later . |