Example sentences of "was [vb pp] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dismantling of the Via dei Fori Imperiali and the creation of an archaeological park is an idea that was floated back in the days of Napoleonic occupation . |
| 2 | The preoccupied merchant , whose attention is totally bound up with his commercial affairs and who consequently neglects his wife , is a stock figure of fabliau-type narrative ( compare , for instance , La Bourgoise d'Orliens , Le Cuvier , " The bathtub " , or L'Enfant qui fu remis au soleil , " The child who was given back to the sun " ) . |
| 3 | The bug was traced back to the Farmoor treatment works which only started supplying Swindon from last August . |
| 4 | In September 1990 W. was referred back to the clinic which had seen her three years before and began sessions with a clinical psychologist . |
| 5 | Miroslav Stepan , former Communist Party secretary in Prague , was sentenced on Oct. 22 to 30 months ' imprisonment following confirmation by an appeal court of his July conviction on charges of abuse of power connected with the suppression of a Prague demonstration on Oct. 28 , 1988 ; a second charge relating to a January 1989 demonstration was referred back to the Prosecutor 's Office [ for his conviction and initial sentence of four years ' imprisonment see p. 37737 ] . |
| 6 | Disagreement arose within the PLO regarding its composition and the issue was referred back to the Executive Committee . |
| 7 | She was referred back to the medical clinic after a few months with the same clinical findings . |
| 8 | ‘ As it was , I was referred back by the clinic a week later because of blood pressure problems and the midwife kept a check on me . |
| 9 | Mr Biffen , who was later to become Leader of the Commons and Lord President of the Council , and was eventually to be sacked by You-Know-Who for wholly ideological reasons , was marched back to the hotel to cover himself . |
| 10 | And , without further ado , I was marched back into the hall , placed on the dais , the heralds braying on their trumpets . |
| 11 | As for Mary Alice , she was flown back to the USA in June 1945 , some 11 months after her original crew . |
| 12 | And if you recall when my Colonel read John plaque it attributes to him er the aid in assisting us at in the establishment of that memorial museum , John gave us a er and sort of took that apart and hauled it over to and it was flown back to the States and that 's going to be a briefing operations room for the museum itself . |
| 13 | She was pressed back against the seat as Fergus accelerated again . |
| 14 | At Milton Keynes Magistrates Court today the youth was remaded back into the care of the local authority and is again in the childrens home … |
| 15 | The conflict led to Douglas 's dismissal from the Cabinet in December 1988 and Lange 's resignation as Prime Minister in August 1989 when Douglas was voted back into the Cabinet by the Labour caucus . |
| 16 | She wore a pale pink dress that swirled around slender legs and her hair was caught back with a matching headband . |
| 17 | She barely had time to assimilate the sudden rapid rise and fall of his chest before her head was wrenched back with a less than gentle hand and her mouth was captured by his . |
| 18 | When I was tipped back in the dentist 's chair |
| 19 | The vicar was carried back to the shore to partake of a well-earned drink . |
| 20 | They formed their line again and started searching for Esmerelda while I was carried back to the house . |
| 21 | It was carried back on the blowing sand , but it moved unhurriedly forward . |
| 22 | A mother whose blonde hair was wound back in a demure knot , but whose lips were pursed in the semblance of a kiss . |
| 23 | After several days on the intensive care unit , Guy , still unconscious , was transferred back to the original hospital closer to his home . |
| 24 | When this was fed back to the operators , they were quickly able to see how their actions were contributing to the effluent and to make substantial reductions in the amount of ammonia leaving the plant . |
| 25 | And probably very little information was fed back to the operator as to the cause of the error . |
| 26 | His attention was jerked back to the issue at hand as the tennis ball bounced up in front of him , hitting him in the face . |
| 27 | The water was pumped back to the pond through two central heating circulators — one through a venturi and the other to the small header pools and back via a cascade . |
| 28 | ‘ This morning ( 20 February ) I was moved back into the ward as I am now off the danger list . |
| 29 | After measurements had been carried out under each of these conditions , the metre rule was moved back towards the experimenter so that the subject could see his/her finger when pointing . |
| 30 | I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour . |