Example sentences of "was [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abruptly the dream finished and she was plunged back into reality . |
| 2 | Her face was plunged back into shadow . |
| 3 | Any lingering dreams died and she was propelled back into her normal character speedily . |
| 4 | Righter is Unix System Labs/Novell Inc joint-venture Univel 's second top-level loss — vice president Greg Fallon was recalled back to his original post at Novell just a couple of months ago . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As a reward for its co-operation , Hungary was given back to Vojvodina . |
| 7 | 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 " ) . |
| 8 | At the Port Lilla was placed back on narrow gauge track for the journey up to the Quarry . |
| 9 | In 1804 , Lieutenant Piper was posted back to Norfolk Island and as Acting Governor ran the island for six years . |
| 10 | I was up there for six weeks , I passed the course and was posted back to Brigade H Q to a wider posting to a regiment . |
| 11 | enemy transport aircraft was wirelessed back to L.R.D.G. headquarters . |
| 12 | By the early decades of this century English was being called upon to sustain a " national ideal " — an ideal which was traced back to Matthew Arnold . |
| 13 | Although other nations contributed to North Sea pollution , much of the contamination was traced back to Britain . |
| 14 | It was traced back to pigeons , feral pigeons though in th at the feeding stuffs erm , place in Liverpool . |
| 15 | The bug was traced back to the Farmoor treatment works which only started supplying Swindon from last August . |
| 16 | In September 1990 W. was referred back to the clinic which had seen her three years before and began sessions with a clinical psychologist . |
| 17 | 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 ] . |
| 18 | Disagreement arose within the PLO regarding its composition and the issue was referred back to the Executive Committee . |
| 19 | She was referred back to the medical clinic after a few months with the same clinical findings . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And , without further ado , I was marched back into the hall , placed on the dais , the heralds braying on their trumpets . |
| 23 | Well-paid for his services to Gen Noriega , Harari was known in Panama as ‘ Mr Sixty Percent , ’ according to Panama 's former Ambassador to Tel Aviv , Mr Eduadro Herero Hassan , who was flown back to Panama this week by the US to help rebuild a new Panamanian security force . |
| 24 | He was flown back to Britain by air ambulance and his condition last night was described as critical . |
| 25 | THE mastermind behind the Knightsbridge safe deposit box robbery was flown back to Italy yesterday to complete his 22-year sentence . |
| 26 | As for Mary Alice , she was flown back to the USA in June 1945 , some 11 months after her original crew . |
| 27 | Bozize , leader of the underground Popular Rally for the Reconstruction of Central Africa ( Rassemblement Populaire pour la Réconstruction de Centrafrique — RPRC ) movement , was flown back to Bangui with the other 11 from Benin on Aug. 31 , having been detained in that country at the end of July . |
| 28 | Yesterday Roderick , a former army officer who was flown back to Jersey at the weekend after fighting extradition from Gibraltar , went with police to an area where it 's thought the bodies had been buried . |
| 29 | Her body was flown back to Finland to be buried , leaving behind a mystery that still has n't been solved . |
| 30 | He has lived on a collective farm in Ukraine since 1945 but was flown back to France by a French television station . |