Example sentences of "been [vb pp] back [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin . |
| 2 | One unguarded remark by Byrkin , one remark that had been carried back by a man with innocence on his face to those who would judge Byrkin . |
| 3 | The new conventional wisdom which divides the young old from the old old at 75 marks a boundary for entry into the last stage of life which has now been pushed back by a dozen years . |
| 4 | The restaurant has been turned back into a house — little expense spared and the quality of work by the local joiner is superb , no other word for it . |
| 5 | Rostov saw that his hair had been drawn back into a neat queue which had been tied with ribbon then folded decoratively forward across the top of his head . |
| 6 | Within minutes the car was free , and before I could thank the young farmer I 'd been invited back for a cup of tea and some hot broth . |
| 7 | A recruitment committee is to be formed to provide jobs for players and Greville Edwards has been invited back as a commission-only commercial manager to revive the sponsorship and hospitality income . |
| 8 | Several placements have broken down , including that for one person in this study ( WG ) , who was returned to hospital at the last datapoint ( this person has since been brought back to a staffed house in her home district ) . |
| 9 | Dalgliesh found himself wondering if it had been brought back from a school trip to the capital . |
| 10 | This was something that Picasso had also conveyed in the necks of the Horta figures , where the area between the projecting tendons appears to have been cut back into a deep recess . |
| 11 | Huge waves have been swept back into a movie star style . |
| 12 | In fishing this literally means that the catching sector has been forced back into a more primitive , earlier phase . |
| 13 | It has been sent back with a frosty message from one of his constituents , who is unidentified . |
| 14 | And the overall engineering figures seemed to have been held back by a ten per cent drop in the fourth quarter , pulling it down to the overall UK trend for the year of minus five per cent . |
| 15 | Business has been held back by a combination of recession and tough environmental laws but the drive is on to recover lost sales volume . |