Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [vb pp] back from " 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 | I 've just been driven back from Covent Garden and I want to get to bed . |
| 3 | But camapigners insist that if they are to trust the aircraft information must not be held back from them . |
| 4 | Yugoslav Macedonians had also been flown back from Athens under a new regulation demanding that they should possess US$1,000 on entry to Greece . |
| 5 | Command of the main army was entrusted for the moment to a veteran Huguenot general , Sir John [ later first Earl of ] Ligonier , aged 65 , who had also been called back from the Continent , though it was understood he would become subordinate to Cumberland as soon as the latter was ready to take over . |
| 6 | Information can then be fed back from the cognitive system to the logogen system to influence the response of this system to the word which is going to be misread . |
| 7 | The Corn Is Green was to be done on the new medium of television in 1946 and somehow Philip wangled leave of absence from the RAF for Richard who yet again played Morgan Evans and yet again was pulled back from the gypsy snares of freewheeling pleasure to the source and the purpose of it all . |