Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] back in " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as a result of that David Phillips who as I was saying in the first half has proved himself to be a very valuable all-rounder already to Forest has slotted back in at centre back again and that Garry Crosby has come on as substitute and taken up his usual position and Phillips ' first half position on the right wing . |
| 2 | He carries only nine pounds more than in 1992 and despite being plagued by a wind problem since that success , has come back in great style after being ‘ tubed . ’ |
| 3 | That is why a player like Uwe Bein has come back in , ’ Vogts said . |
| 4 | He may be right that the centre of gravity among that supposedly central group of Britons , the skilled workers , or C2s , has shifted back in favour of higher state spending . |
| 5 | Recently the trend has swung back in favour of large carcasses and the Longhorn , able to make meat from grass and hardy enough to live out without pampering , is ready for the challenge . |
| 6 | last I got moved back in last night . |
| 7 | did you hear what I said , I think your , I do n't know if you 'd gone back in the house when I said , I 'll prepare , I 'll prepare the dinner |
| 8 | He 'd begun back in the fifties as a prison officer . |
| 9 | ‘ Let's hope history sort of repeats itself , and we get promoted back in the year we come back home . ’ |
| 10 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
| 11 | Castration was what I would have recommended back in England , where there is less space for dogs to wander and where welfare considerations for a dog out on his own are obviously of prime concern . |
| 12 | He was always talking about the board he was having shaped back in Sydney . |
| 13 | The end came rather suddenly , so I could n't have got back in time to see her , but I flew over as soon as I was free , to see what had to be done . |
| 14 | Mitterrand , a staunch defender of French culture , may be a reluctant participant at the event , although his original objections must have melted back in 1987 when the American company said that with this , the fourth of its parks ( there are two in the United States and one outside Tokyo ) , it would create 12,000 jobs … |
| 15 | Having arrived back in our contemporary world after our historical journey , I hope that we will be better able to view modernity with a certain detachment . |
| 16 | We may have slipped back in some fields , but in others ( such as molecular biology or pharmaceutical research ) we remain world leaders . |
| 17 | Ironically , Rockefeller was exactly that type of capitalist he would have despised back in England . |
| 18 | Calico , which got started back in the early 1980s and which Unir claims AT&T could n't push because of USL and C++ , has reportedly 200 man/years invested in it . |
| 19 | Yes , we had stumbled back in time all right , to those days of portion control when catering managers were gods , working miracles of loaves and fishes on ever smaller plates filled with dry greenery and tomatoes cut like starfish . |
| 20 | As Dean Acheson had commented back in 1962 , Britain had indeed lost an empire yet failed to find a post-imperial role . |
| 21 | He was told to imagine that he had travelled back in time to the afternoon of the abduction and was watching the events unfold on a television documentary . |
| 22 | He hardly noticed Patsy , who had come back in . |
| 23 | It was n't so bad , not after the things Jazzbeaux had seen back in Spanish Fork . |
| 24 | Hippies believed in love and peace , they had said back in 1967 . |
| 25 | And the teacher , too , might have made the same terrible mistake that she had made back in Teheran all those years before . |
| 26 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 27 | The team had moved back in again , carefully sifting and analysing . |
| 28 | My husband gave me the news that my father had died back in the village . |
| 29 | Before that the village 's only successful days had occurred back in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when it was a centre of the Basque whaling trade . |
| 30 | Dunwoody was surprised when the judge called him the winner on Remittance Man in the opening Bristol Novice Hurdle , believing Peter Scudamore had got back in the final strides on the favourite Regal Ambition after being headed halfway up the run-in . |