Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [vb pp] back in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Terminator has been sent back in time from a future world dominated by machines to assassinate Sarah ( Linda Hamilton from TV 's Beauty and the Beast ) . |
| 2 | He commented to a local newspaper : ‘ Every penny has been ploughed back in . |
| 3 | She feels a barrier has gone up between them , that her comments to the girls were perfectly justified and that the whole thing has been thrown back in her face . |
| 4 | It has been brought back in 5.5 but is no longer a . |
| 5 | The audience of willing females had shouted the answer so loudly that it could probably have been heard back in Monte Samana . |
| 6 | Hilary Robarts had been slumped back in her chair , her eyes fixed on Lessingham . |
| 7 | Dudley Clarke had been the only casualty , hit in the ear , which had been sewn back in place by a petty officer as the boat left the beach . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The arrival of the T9000 Transputer threatened to be an anti-climax , given that the device had been previewed back in 1991 ( CI No 1,653 ) . |
| 10 | However , in April 1990 the President of the World Bank , Barber Conable , said that economic development had been held back in sub-Saharan African countries by the weakness of their political systems , nepotism and corruption . |
| 11 | At first the Russians had been driven back in disorder , but in the months of July and August they had begun to recover and had driven the Poles back on their tracks until finally the Red Army was at the gates of Warsaw itself . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Sandwiches had been sold back in the Store 's Food Hall . |
| 14 | He and Matchsticks blended in perfectly as had been predicted back in Teheran . |
| 15 | My next book was due to have been a literary novel but that 's been put back in the top drawer . |