Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] back [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know without the women 's support group especially and without other support you know , we would 've been starved back to work . |
| 2 | More recently , bus route 220 has been cut back to Tooting , leaving 64 alone to serve Mitcham and Croydon . |
| 3 | The old control tower has been pressed back into service , but this time using mobile equipment . |
| 4 | The Terminator has been sent back in time from a future world dominated by machines to assassinate Sarah ( Linda Hamilton from TV 's Beauty and the Beast ) . |
| 5 | By end September 1991 , £165,000 worth of items has been credited back to Merseyside stores . |
| 6 | THE body of a 53-year-old French Catholic priest who was murdered in Brazil on Christmas Eve has been flown back to France , amid a row between the church and police over the investigation of his death . |
| 7 | Also heading for Scotland is James Leckey whose Village Homes Cosworth 4x4 has been rushed back into shape after suffering damaged suspension on last weekend 's Mayo Rally . |
| 8 | Development of the sizeable potential market in the countries of the former Soviet Union for translations of western academic and serious general books , which exists despite the growing universality of the English language , has been held back by lack of hard currency . |
| 9 | Export factoring has been held back by gaps in the companies ' international networks . |
| 10 | you will find that the set of five needles has been drawn back to B working position . |
| 11 | General availability of the System/88 FTX 2.2 Unix and FTX X25 Release 5.0 has been put back to September 24 from March 26 . |
| 12 | Management changes and the resolution of teething problems with machinery improved matters although the target completion date has been put back from May to June 1993 . |
| 13 | To crown this important exhibition of French sculpture , Bellanger has come up with something quite exceptional : Clodion 's ‘ Sacrifice à l'amour ’ , originally shown at the 1773 Salon , which only recently surfaced on the international market and has been brought back to France for this occasion . |
| 14 | Just such a house has been brought back to life by Timothy and Christine Easton . |
| 15 | ‘ He 'd been taken back to Germany for slave labour . |
| 16 | What I might do is go back to Marks . |
| 17 | All we 've got to do is go back to London and get Joe to set up a workshop there and work himself silly . |
| 18 | What I would like to do is to come back on Monday sorry Tuesday , Tuesday , Tuesday . |
| 19 | Unless I went back to Harwich , I was going to be flat broke in a couple of days and just at that moment the last thing I wanted to do was to go back to Harwich . |
| 20 | If I had n't been pregnant I would have been sent back to Bullwood , but they have n't got a mother and baby unit there , though in those days Styal was only for women over twenty-one , apart from the pregnant borstal girls . |
| 21 | The audience of willing females had shouted the answer so loudly that it could probably have been heard back in Monte Samana . |
| 22 | It had surrounded her at her progressive private school , it surrounded her still at her fashionable newish university , but she herself lacked economic grasp and was uncomfortably aware of having lost , of late , a few arguments with outsiders , of having been thrown back on arguments about personalities . |
| 23 | The profits that were generated were ploughed back in investment in staff and technology , a philosophy that has been maintained and which has allowed PRCS to become twice as big as any of its competitors , an achievement which speaks for itself . |
| 24 | Information they gathered was sent back to platoon headquarters by runner and radioed from the village to Company headquarters . |
| 25 | The uni-processor will deliver a reported 125 SPECmarks at 150MHz , come with 64Mb to 1Gb RAM , 3D graphics , six turbo channel slots and run OpenVMS — OSF/1 now appears to have been put back until July next year ( UX No 407 ) . |
| 26 | He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories . |
| 27 | Genette systematically coins new terms for aspects of narrative which have already been named but which imply a psychological or realist element : flashback becomes amalepsis , point of view becomes focalization , the opposition between telling and showing is translated back into Plato 's terms diegesis and mimesis , and so on . |
| 28 | Following a distinguished career with the KGB , including sixteen years as a military attache in a succession of western countries , he was appointed as Deputy Director of UNACO after his predecessor had been sent back to Russia in disgrace for spying . |
| 29 | She then pointed to the recipe — Turkish Stuffing for a whole Roast Sheep — delighted by the disparity between the thought of this sheep and the few ounces of meat a week which begun jotting down recipes for this book after she had been sent back to England in 1945 , owing to her health , from New Delhi , where she had been living with her husband . |
| 30 | Ex-L.C.C. tram route 6 , which had been cut back to Tooting Broadway on 6 December 1933 , was re-extended to Mitcham on 30 May 1937 , but as the Cricket Green branch had already been lifted , it terminated at the Fair Green . |