Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About a week before Michael was due to go back into hospital , we managed a few days holiday in the Lake District . |
| 2 | ‘ The day before I was due to go back to England he asked me to marry him . |
| 3 | He had previously worked for the firm and was due to go back to it . |
| 4 | The Quiberon was due to head back to France at 9am with several huge lorries of fish for France and Spain on board . |
| 5 | Nigger told him he was due to start back on the tugs on the following Monday . |
| 6 | At first it was pleasant to lie back on the straw mattress and relax . |
| 7 | To obscure more recent failure , it was possible to dip back into the time when the championship-winning sides flowed . |
| 8 | The duration of the early FDRs was sometimes very long — as much as 200 flying hours and more in some cases — so it was possible to check back over many flights how the aircraft had behaved . |
| 9 | The servants would know whether it was possible to get back down the valley . |
| 10 | ‘ I had to leave when my father died , to look after my mother , and it was n't until the late Sixties that I was free to go back to work . |
| 11 | But I was afraid to go back to the village . |
| 12 | One way and another , I was glad to get back to Bourn after this leave for a rest . |
| 13 | I was glad to get back to Britain . |
| 14 | Dexter was glad to get back to Chester Row . |
| 15 | So did I , thought Juliet , and for once she was glad to get back to the ward . |
| 16 | INDIGO GIRLS Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the folk club … |
| 17 | And … a Fish called Zander : Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the water … here comes Jaws ' little brother . |
| 18 | After that I waited at the harbour until it was safe to go back to the beach without seeing the person I was dodging . ’ |
| 19 | JUST when you thought it was safe to go back in the lending library , another Henry Miller novel is unearthed . |
| 20 | After Bromsgrove they lost three games in a row , so it was important to get back to winning , against St Albans last Saturday then Netley 3-0 . |
| 21 | After Bromsgrove they lost three games in a row , so it was important to get back to winning , against St Albans last Saturday , then Netley 3-0 . |
| 22 | ‘ It was important to come back after Saturday , and we always want to win at home . |
| 23 | ’ And then mercifully he lost interest and fell asleep and I was able to go back to my researches in the library . |
| 24 | So then I was able to go back to the library . ’ |
| 25 | But the suspension also meant that Coker was able to whizz back to Oz for a two-week training camp in Brisbane with Queensland to return having served his time and he missed almost none of the domestic season . |
| 26 | This was so demonstrably unfair that SAVE was able to hit back by seeking leave for judicial review . |
| 27 | I was able to come back on that and add up the figures perfectly competently , but I can imagine that other people might not have been able to , and |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm just really happy I was able to come back in the second and third sets , ’ said Sukova , who held three set points in the first set , including two in the tie-break , before Sanchez took the decider 9–7 . |
| 29 | Later , after a deliberately nostalgic and painful visit to St Juliot in March 1913 , he was able to look back at their early days together in ‘ At Castle Boterel ’ , ‘ Beeny Cliff ’ , ‘ The phantom horsewoman ’ , and eventually to come to terms , however imperfectly , with his memories . |
| 30 | Roberts , the Second Master , was able to look back on his 35 years at School . |