Example sentences of "had [be] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A BITTER David Gower blasted England 's selectors last night after he was virtually the last to hear he had been tossed back into the cricketing wilderness . |
| 2 | This was to continue until by 1962 300 000 Dutch citizens had been sent back to the Netherlands , 280000 of them being ‘ Brown Dutchmen ’ , Eurasians , strangers to Europe . |
| 3 | The sea breeze was strong enough to mould the skirts of passing women , and Grunte , who could remember little of the events of the night , save that he had spent a good deal of money feeding the faces of his party faithful ( ‘ Pity about Hyacinth ’ ) , and that he had been seen back to the Grand after a drink or two by Leroy Burns ( ‘ Grand fellow , must see if I ca n't find him another Sierra ’ ) , gave thought to his pending performance . |
| 4 | Where the wings of pain had dropped him , there had miraculously been infinite but unblinding light , a great strenuous joy that was somehow calm , like a crystal bowl that you do not drink out of , and now he had been floated back to the comfortable shore of his cool clean bed . |
| 5 | He had been escorted back to the Vicarage by a plainclothes officer , not the one who had been working most closely with Commander Dalgliesh , but an older man , broad-shouldered , stolid , reassuringly calm , who had spoken to him in a soft country accent which he could n't recognize but was most certainly not local . |
| 6 | For a moment , until the old men had been dragged back to the barricade , all was chaos . |
| 7 | A spokesman for the ministry confirmed that an outbreak of food poisoning in Bedworth in July had been traced back to the monastery . |
| 8 | An NRA spokesman said the spillage had been traced back to the Lartington Treatment Works , where there had been no threat to drinking water . |
| 9 | A few Bronze Age artifacts were turned up in the dark soil , but they had meant nothing to those who had seen them , and they had been turned back into the earth . |
| 10 | Nevertheless AFHQ was not informed that the Croats had been turned back until the morning of 16 May , and even then it took some time for the information to be fully taken in by all branches concerned . |
| 11 | Hoping against hope that she had not ducked out back to her own flat — not that she 'd blame her ! — Leith skirted the room until her eyes were drawn to a settee that had been pushed back to the side of the room . |
| 12 | Her first instinct had been to creep back to the familiar haven of her room , but now Chesarynth could n't face its bright emptiness . |
| 13 | The lay-out of the town had been established back in the twelfth century when a new market place had replaced the old , congested commercial area alongside the church . |
| 14 | The full flesh of his cheeks and chin had been scalped back to the bone . |
| 15 | She had been walking back along the track , head bent , deep in thought . |
| 16 | Despite the almost empty room , Isabel had been taken back to the gallery by a circuitous route through little-known passages deep inside the castle walls . |
| 17 | She had been seduced back into the house , and now everything was to do again . |
| 18 | And it had been there , about twenty minutes later , that Thiercelin had received his wound ; a shell splinter in the cheek , which looked worse than it was , bleeding profusely into his collar and tunic , so that he had been ordered back to the chateau to have it dressed . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had briefly considered going out fighting anyway , but had been held back by the thought that he should deal with those immediately responsible for his predicament . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | But the Allies had been driven back to the borders of India by the initial Japanese offensive . |
| 23 | The evacuees included 3,000 who had returned to their homes on Monday but had been driven back to the centres by the volcano 's sulphurous stench . |
| 24 | On Jan. 25 the government claimed that the rebels had suffered many casualties and had been driven back over the border into Uganda . |
| 25 | The oval dining table stood before the rear window , but it held in the middle a model of the house on a low plinth as if it were a museum exhibit , and the eight high-backed dining chairs had been set back against the walls . |
| 26 | All that had been achieved was a more punitive regime , while the cause of sex reform had been set back by the whitewashing of women and the doctrine of the uncleanness of men . |
| 27 | He tried to explain that magic had indeed once been wild and lawless , but had been tamed back in the mists of time by the Olden Ones , who had bound it to obey among other things the Law of Conservation of Reality ; this demanded that the effort needed to achieve a goal should be the same regardless of the means used . |
| 28 | In October 1944 the Leaders faced the problem of redecorating the Primary School room which had been handed back to the church after having been in use during the War as a First Aid Post for a unit of the St John 's Ambulance Brigade led by Miss Mary Lutton . |
| 29 | German embassy officials in Moscow said the unframed pictures , contained in a battered brown portfolio , had been handed back to the embassy by a former Red Army officer who insisted on remaining anonymous . |
| 30 | Sandwiches had been sold back in the Store 's Food Hall . |