Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] back the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two songs were played back the next day by the tired twosome . |
| 2 | Kevin and his brother were putting back the whiskeys and talking about things that meant nothing to her . |
| 3 | A leading Loch Lomondside farmer , John Maxwell of Cashel Farm , said : ‘ It 's been a dreadful winter — one of the worst I can ever remember — with rain day after day and it just proves how wrong the Government were to cut back the HLCAs for hill use . ’ |
| 4 | Wpc Jones was keeping back the crowd and he called to her , ‘ Send for the ambulance ! ’ |
| 5 | He was pulling back the calf 's head so the brown eyes rolled up and only the whites were showing , and opening its mouth by slipping his thumb in at the side . |
| 6 | And , using all his force , he ran and crashed into the second assassin , who was winching back the arbalest for another bolt . |
| 7 | It was perhaps the argument that this imposition of middle-class morality was holding back the British cinema which led to the matter becoming an issue of public concern . |
| 8 | Sir Anthony had concluded his business with the plump lawyer as far as he was able to overcome his distaste for discussing deals or mentioning money , and he was holding back the brambles for her , as it were , letting her into their company , and she butted through , a young dog again , let out for a walk . |
| 9 | Their job was to hold back the Chinese , and they did . |
| 10 | She was fighting back the tears , and her throat hurt . |
| 11 | When he had come back from Grasmere the first thing he had done — despite George Wood 's vehement protests — was to pay back the loan and bring his hotel bill up to the mark . |
| 12 | Such an act may well have provoked strong reaction in both ecclesiastical and lay circles , and Osred , exiled son of Alhred , was tempted back the following year from exile on the Isle of Man by the oaths of certain Northumbrian nobles ; but his supporters then deserted him and he was captured by King Aethelred and killed at Aynburg on 14 September 792 . |