Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | To achieve this it will be essential to create a culture where services are given back to the people and delivered with the attitude that the ‘ customer is sovereign ’ . |
| 2 | Still , he finds the star system ‘ a little bit crazy ’ , at least compared to the relatively nonchalant manner in which well-known actors are treated back home . |
| 3 | Mrs Leinen fears if they are flown back to the United States she 'll lose custody forever . |
| 4 | If Mr Newton is right , perhaps Mr Lamont will one day be able to please the traditionalists … by announcing that the railways are to go back to the good old steam age . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the mummies of the pharaohs , removed from display by President Sadat in 1970 , are to go back on show in the Cairo museum in May . |
| 6 | I am plunged back into robust adventures with my sturdy sea-horse . |
| 7 | They put something like 30,000 Chinese refugees back over the border each year and it was a custom of international law that such immigrants are received back , she said . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |
| 9 | His dazzling left wing runs are bringing back memories of a glorious era for Coleraine fans when Ray McCoy starred in the super side of the Eighties . |
| 10 | Though her lips do not move , I seem to hear words : I am to go back — to sort out this nonsense , once and for all . |
| 11 | Ethical debates about the quality of life and the limits to medical intervention are certain to become more pressing as frontiers are rolled back on what is technically possible . |
| 12 | It is all too well remembered : the slimy feel of it , hanging limp and unfitting around her as she stands awkward on the threshold of the Clarks ' drawing-room , where the carpets are rolled back , the parquet gleams and in the corner the big hired radiogram is asserting that the lady is a tramp . |
| 13 | EIGHT Yorkshire miners , trapped for 15 hours behind thousands of tons of rock , coal and twisted steel half a mile underground , are expected back at work today after what British Coal described as ‘ a stunningly successful ’ rescue operation . |
| 14 | are sucked back by the wet |
| 15 | Cut back any plants around pond edges that are dying back , and compost them before they pollute the water . |
| 16 | All units are to pull back . |
| 17 | The residuals are smoothed using the same recipe as before , and the results are added back to the results of the first smooth ; this is illustrated in exercise 9.1 . |
| 18 | But its annual surpluses ( $56 billion in fiscal 1989 ) are added back for the purposes of the Gramm-Rudman deficit-cutting law . |
| 19 | I am walking back to my hotel after dinner with a Bucharest novelist and his family and being graciously escorted by him and his wife through the still evidently dangerous , silent streets . |
| 20 | These weeks are looked back on affectionately by pupils as they remember the camaraderie they have developed with Staff , parent and senior pupils . |
| 21 | And when comments from the 100 who are taking part in the trial run are reported back , it will be rolled out nationally to all Guinness Brewing GB employees . |
| 22 | They will also fit the 6 cylinder 109 if the bell housing is changed and the engine mounts are moved back on the chassis . |
| 23 | New operands are always inserted at position one , and all operands already in the stack are moved down one position ( or " pushed " ) ; only the most recently added operand could be removed ( from position one ) and the remaining operands are moved back ( or " popped " ) . |
| 24 | Then in winter the wicker table and chairs are moved back into the house , to be replaced by an old formica kitchen table . |
| 25 | Sevens ‘ at risk ’ if Five Nations matches are moved back to April |
| 26 | As fish are sinking back through the surface , other fish will be appearing through it , so that there is constant activity . |
| 27 | Strategically located road blocks are used to enforce systematic searches of traffic , and vehicle registration numbers are fed back to central control for checking . |
| 28 | This procedure is repeated at each stage and ensures that the results are fed back to ensure that they comply with the intention of the previous stage . |
| 29 | Perhaps the most extraordinary moment in the story is when the Butterfly appears and ali the butterflies in the world , in a great swarm , are absorbed back into his essence . |
| 30 | The airlines that fly between them were hit much less severely than American and European rivals by the slump in air travel during the Gulf war and they are bouncing back more quickly . |