Example sentences of "we have [been] [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only had a 30-minute journey taken one hour , but according to him , we 'd been brought back to where we started ! |
| 2 | If we 'd been put back with an American maybe it meant that at least one of us could expect to be released . |
| 3 | Then a ripple of information came down the queue to say that we had been ordered back to the station because there obviously was n't sufficient bus capacity . |
| 4 | ‘ We were confident we had the quality to beat our rivals but we had been held back by the exchange rates , ’ said , sales manager plastic compounds . |
| 5 | ‘ What has happened is that we have been clawed back from the disastrous level of whitefish we started at to a position in line with the top end of scientific advice . ’ |