Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | he , he were due to go back in the army and he overstayed |
| 2 | Tony took the overdose on Sunday night , at around the time when his father , his father 's girl friend and her son were due to come back from the pub . |
| 3 | They were supposed to come back to the offices and do a three hour training |
| 4 | The damp close air was heavy about them , it slowed their pace and they were glad to get back to the steading and watch Sullivan repairing the tractor . |
| 5 | The animals had been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and were ready to go back into the wild . |
| 6 | Nigger told him he was due to start back on the tugs on the following Monday . |
| 7 | At first it was pleasant to lie back on the straw mattress and relax . |
| 8 | To obscure more recent failure , it was possible to dip back into the time when the championship-winning sides flowed . |
| 9 | The servants would know whether it was possible to get back down the valley . |
| 10 | But I was afraid to go back to the village . |
| 11 | So did I , thought Juliet , and for once she was glad to get back to the ward . |
| 12 | INDIGO GIRLS Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the folk club … |
| 13 | And … a Fish called Zander : Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the water … here comes Jaws ' little brother . |
| 14 | After that I waited at the harbour until it was safe to go back to the beach without seeing the person I was dodging . ’ |
| 15 | JUST when you thought it was safe to go back in the lending library , another Henry Miller novel is unearthed . |
| 16 | So then I was able to go back to the library . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm just really happy I was able to come back in the second and third sets , ’ said Sukova , who held three set points in the first set , including two in the tie-break , before Sanchez took the decider 9–7 . |
| 18 | Here he was able to stand back from the onrush of western man and ask himself the real questions of life and meaning ; get his young life , full and successful as it had been , into perspective . |
| 19 | I worked my way — somewhat fearfully , I admit — into a gloomy stand of pines , and there found several fallen branches which I was able to drag back to the cave . |
| 20 | Feeling oddly bereft and desolate , besieged by Dolly 's incessant chatter , Luce was pleased to get back to the hotel . |
| 21 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 22 | I was frightened to go back to the place that had torn me apart . ’ |