Example sentences of "that [noun prp] had [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her garter belt was a pre-war birthday present , and she wore a pair of the precious nylons that Sylvia had brought back from the States . |
| 2 | Thus was sexual liberation defined by an almost exclusively male heterosexual group , drawing on old subversions — Dada , Surrealism , Beat , Situationism — diffused through the mass-market expansion into commercial sex that Playboy had pioneered back in the 1950s . |
| 3 | Erlich came close to her , kneeling on the rug he knew that Harry had brought back from a fast run to Beirut . |
| 4 | As Dexter adjusted to the dark , he saw that Blanche had turned back to him , her heavy-lidded eyes trained on his face . |
| 5 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 6 | At first I thought that Jacob had come back again , to make sure I was all right . |
| 7 | But he conceded that Tokyo had held back in the aftermarket of British Gas . |
| 8 | But he conceded that Tokyo had held back in the aftermarket of British Gas . |
| 9 | Mr Macdonald said the most significant thing was that Brown had gone back to his car nearby and returned to the fight armed with the knife which had a 12in blade . |
| 10 | It is very clear here that Ritschl had moved back behind Schleiermacher towards Kant 's linking of religion with ‘ practical reason ’ . |