Example sentences of "have [verb] back [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has come back a wiser player and he will add drive to the team . ’ |
| 2 | But if you thought about the order that you test , then , if something does n't work , you may only have to go back a few steps and re-test . |
| 3 | However , if they do n't collect you may have to pay back the 80 per cent you have already received . |
| 4 | Even if he did win , the owner would buy him in after the race , so that Boardwalk would have paid back a small fraction of his training costs . |
| 5 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 6 | They went to total excess and then they had to come back the other way . |
| 7 | It did not tell him how many French had crossed the frontier , nor whether blücher was concentrating his army ; all it told him was that a French force had pushed back the Prussian outposts . |
| 8 | Unable to sleep he had drawn back the front flaps of his hut to watch the spectacular storm and had been startled to see her dashing across the flooded clearing in the glare of the lightning flashes . |
| 9 | He was glad that the French had driven back the invading foreign armies , but this was no real comfort to the conflict in his mind . |
| 10 | Leaping up like that had brought back the awful queasiness . |
| 11 | But when he had fought back the overwhelming urge to ring the police and have criminal charges brought against his secretary , he had realised he could use this to his advantage . |
| 12 | He do n't love thee since Garty moaned so he had to pay back the two shilling given for thee . |
| 13 | You only had to pay back the five per cent minimum each month . |
| 14 | We have to go back a little way to remember that in 1976 they presided over the most savage cuts ever imposed on the national health service . |
| 15 | Chief Executive Hazel Dudgeon , fronting the course 's annual preview for the first time , said : ‘ We have got back the two evening meetings ( 15 and 29 July ) we lost last year and now have six of these on our 17-strong programme . |
| 16 | If Sid put £100 ( $175 ) into each of the big privatisations and sold his shares on the first day of trading — as many such investors did — he would ( before expenses ) have got back an extra 41% . |
| 17 | I can not remember a previous time when we have bought back a former council house . |
| 18 | But if we want to consider how life arose , we have to look back a further thousand million years beyond even the earliest micro-fossils , to a time when the earth was completely lifeless and still cooling after its birth . |
| 19 | This was a wonderful opportunity to continue to network European wide and the WASL representatives have brought back a good range of catalogues and information about new women artists groups for the archive . |
| 20 | The merchants and sailors have brought back the raw materials for the city 's industries . |