Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bodie glanced at the wreck of the Stones ' car as it was slowly winched back across the pavement by the police breakdown truck . |
| 2 | During the war , his entourage was frequently scandalised by his affairs with Frenchwomen in occupied France , and when , in 1923 , he was secretly smuggled back to Germany from exile in Holland , his friends hustled him through breakfast out of fear that he might fall in love with some hotel chambermaid and thus jeopardise the whole plot . |
| 3 | The battle-scarred veteran , Sea Rover , was eventually sold back to her owners for a relatively nominal sum , and sailed back to Holland to fight another day . |
| 4 | Numerous operations were performed , until , as Charlie says , ‘ I was eventually shipped back to the States on the Queen Mary and was so happy to see the Statue of Liberty again . |
| 5 | Three particular ‘ Snoddyisms ’ stand out : ( 1 ) Roy Allen was blatantly pulled back by the arm inside the penalty area as he ran to meet a corner — ‘ play on ’ was the decision . |
| 6 | More bad luck was to follow a minute later ; Steve Jenkins hit a cross shot which Spencer Creedon parried across the six yard box , Kenny Clark followed up and desperately slid in but was denied by the post , and in doing so , dislocated his finger , but was luckily allowed back into the action within minutes following treatment . |
| 7 | He 'd be lucky if he was merely broken back into the Scouts for ten or twenty years . |
| 8 | No doubt she had spoken English with Russell and it was all coming back to her . |
| 9 | A potential consignment was purportedly held back in the hope of a higher price . |
| 10 | Hodgskin failed to break into the charmed circle of the Edinburgh reviewers , and was constantly held back by his painful self-abnegation and the growing radicalism of his opinions . |
| 11 | The statue , which was gently lowered back into its place yesterday accompanied by gentle applause from onlookers , was a memorial to Anthony Ashley-Cooper , Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury , for his philanthropic work with poor children . |
| 12 | Cairns , convinced an earlier declaration could have given Notts a chance of victory , at one stage squatted in mid-pitch with his head in his hands and was only directed back to the middle after setting off for the pavilion . |
| 13 | Feeling the fragile shell of the golden ball — more delicate , even , than an egg — he was suddenly plunged back into his dream . |
| 14 | When Leo made some small movement , she was suddenly brought back to the present and became mortifyingly aware that she had just emptied her heart to a virtual stranger . |
| 15 | Several papers report on Goldie the goldfish which was apparently brought back from the dead when its owner gave it the kiss of life and poured whisky down its throat . |
| 16 | When he got to Bec , Anselm at once spotted his quality , and he was soon sending back to Lanfranc a glowing account of Osbern 's progress : he was ‘ growing daily in knowledge and serenity ’ ; and the friendship between him and Anselm had become so close that they could not be separated without tearing their two souls apart . |
| 17 | She was soon invited back to the house at Paulton 's Square , where she found Laura ‘ motherly , warm , interested in what you were doing and a marvellous person to chat to . |
| 18 | Theology was thus transformed back into anthropology . |
| 19 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 20 | Even a biscuit tin full of buttons and other odds and ends was finally put back in the pile of things to be kept because , as Granny said , ‘ You never know when they 'll come in handy . ’ |
| 21 | On my perch , arms wrapped tightly round the shrouds , I was alternately laid back over the deck and thrust out over the water . |
| 22 | I was just getting back into the driving seat when there was a shout and a figure emerged from the gully about fifty metres above me . |
| 23 | I thought you were her lover , someone she 'd never told me about , and I was just knocked back by all the emotions I felt . |
| 24 | I was just walking back past the big , black marble vault belonging to the Chatwin family when somebody dodged out from behind it and grabbed me from the back . |
| 25 | He was just walking back to the house when the patrol car came storming up the drive , etching his shadow on the wall . |
| 26 | María , the young woman who kept the bar , was just coming back from church , her head still covered by a black lace mantilla . |
| 27 | Jus , just there Gloucester Road , I was just coming back from Witham . |
| 28 | The first thing was when I got there , my parents took me up there and the cow man was just coming back from going in with the cows , and he looked across at me in my sparkling white , new uniform , you know , land army girl sort of standing , ’ Ah , you be my new mate then ! ’ you should have seen my mother 's face ! |
| 29 | But Mr Pillsbury was not asked back for a second interview . |
| 30 | Railway stock sent from Black Sea ports to another area , the Middle Volga , was not sent back for more grain , but for the most part ended up in Siberia . |