Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the last 4–5 years there has been a considerable amount of activity in the colony due to the expiry of the lease in 1997 when the land on which the colony has been built reverts back to its previous owner the Republic of China . |
| 2 | Michael Kelly , the director whose company is responsible for Celtic 's public relations , yesterday confirmed that the manager has been asked to report back to the board with his observations on how the club 's performances can be improved . |
| 3 | BBN last escaped the axe in 1986 and was subsequently revamped under its current editor Jennifer Creswick , but it has never been far from the blade as the Council has been forced to cut back over the years . |
| 4 | THE owner of an historic Tudor mansion has been ordered to put back cast-iron gates at the entrance to his drive , at a cost of thousands of pounds . |
| 5 | TOP animal trainer Mary Chipperfield has been urged to buy back monkeys sent from safari parks for laboratory research . |
| 6 | He might have been intending to go back to his family and appear utterly horrified while breaking the news of my death . |
| 7 | Look forward to your future with optimism , even though you may have been feeling held back for some time . |
| 8 | If this scrapping had not occurred then capitalists would have been unable to find workers to operate new machines and would have been forced to cut back accumulation sharply . |
| 9 | Although their dress was not equipped to deal with soaking weather and although they may have been expected to turn back at the sight of such greyness , they continued and even displayed some sense of enjoyment at the discomfort each was experiencing . |
| 10 | I move sharply away from the window , shocked to find myself being looked at , cross with myself to have been caught looking back . |
| 11 | A police spokesman said all four people held had now been released without charge , although some had been bailed to report back to the police at a later date . |
| 12 | Evans , who has transformed Cardiff from last season 's Welsh rugby no-hopers to this year 's championship contenders , said he had been asked to come back next year but personal problems might prevent him doing so . |
| 13 | Radio of Russia on Feb. 16 said that Russian enterprises had a powerful incentive to acquire roubles , and that because of a lack of roubles , they were being forced to put goods on the market which they had been trying to hold back . |
| 14 | Immediately the two youngsters had been forced to descend back down into the tunnel . |
| 15 | I know they were not complacent about the Swiss because it was only a year earlier that they had been forced to come back from being two down to snatch a vital European point against them . |
| 16 | Though I have been invited to come back to South Africa by friends both black and white , I wonder whether I am making a great mistake . |
| 17 | In recent years most academic libraries have been forced to cut back on periodical provision , to prevent serials from running away with unreasonable proportions of their budgets for materials ( see pp. 135–8 ) . |
| 18 | The two sealing vessels that illegally hunted in Greenland waters in 1991 , the Polarfangst and the Polarstar ( see BBC WILDLIFE , October 1991 ) , have been forced to pay back a large part of their government subsidies — £50,000 and £30,000 respectively . |
| 19 | But then large portions of Jackson 's years as a recording artist have been spent picking back through complications he had no intention of creating . |
| 20 | turn to Mr Potter I think he 's been dying to get back on this so |