Example sentences of "been [vb pp] back " in BNC.

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1 THE body of a 53-year-old French Catholic priest who was murdered in Brazil on Christmas Eve has been flown back to France , amid a row between the church and police over the investigation of his death .
2 ‘ She has only been flown back a month ago from the near east .
3 In the meantime , F/O Kohn had been flown back by ATA ‘ taxi ’ for another aircraft .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 The bodies of eight of the nine airmen killed when their Hercules crashed last week have been flown back to RAF Lyneham .
7 ‘ And that would have been ironic , would n't it , now he 's been posted back to HQ .
8 The applause from the crowd round the green must have been heard back at the clubhouse .
9 The audience of willing females had shouted the answer so loudly that it could probably have been heard back in Monte Samana .
10 The salmonella has been traced back to contaminated Scotch eggs .
11 A spokesman for the ministry confirmed that an outbreak of food poisoning in Bedworth in July had been traced back to the monastery .
12 The choice of 6 January for this purpose has been traced back to the gnostic Christians of Egypt , the corresponding date in the calendar used there being traditionally associated with the blessing of the Nile .
13 This tradition has been traced back to the sixth century AD .
14 AN IDEA for transmitting signals through the mains wiring has been traced back to 1897 , when Joseph Routin and C. E. L. Brown of Zurich , Switzerland , took out British Patent number 24833 .
15 Colic , eczema , asthma , persistent runny nose , glue ear , headaches , migraine and even behavioural problems , have all been traced back to certain foods or food additives .
16 The origins of the black cat , as a distinct colour type , have been traced back to the ancient Phoenicians , who sneaked some of the sacred cats out of Egypt and began trading in them around the Mediterranean .
17 If they 'd been traced back to here , it would have been your responsibility . ’
18 Mills 's activity as a surveyor and architect has been traced back to 1638 , but his claim to architectural celebrity was his building in 1654–6 of Thorpe Hall , near Peterborough , for Oliver St John [ q.v . ] ,
19 But the DIA would n't risk any action based on information that might have been traced back to one of Asmar 's people .
20 An NRA spokesman said the spillage had been traced back to the Lartington Treatment Works , where there had been no threat to drinking water .
21 The Socialists have been plunged back into gloom .
22 The old control tower has been pressed back into service , but this time using mobile equipment .
23 Where the wings of pain had dropped him , there had miraculously been infinite but unblinding light , a great strenuous joy that was somehow calm , like a crystal bowl that you do not drink out of , and now he had been floated back to the comfortable shore of his cool clean bed .
24 A few days later the sergeant called to say that the fingerprints on the envelope were not those of the gardener who had been dismissed and that the poor , wronged man had been given back his job .
25 Nicholas dropped to sit on a block , and picked up a stone , and took out the knife he had been given back .
26 She did n't like immobility , she did n't like being on her own , and she did n't like the fact that the wallet still had n't been given back to her , not when she 'd nicked it at great personal risk .
27 Sir Gregory had been given back much of his estate during Mary 's short reign , and his Catholicism , while viewed askance by some of the villagers , was in general tolerated .
28 We 've been given back our summer . ’
29 ‘ Well , he said that he wanted to do something useful with his life , seeing that it had been given back to him when he had n't expected it .
30 On the same day it was reported that efforts to impose the state of emergency regulations were being hampered by mass civil disobedience , with demonstrations and road blocks slowing the movement of the newly arrived military units from airfields at Yevlakh and Gendzhe ( Azerbaijan 's second largest city , formerly Kirovabad ; it had been given back its pre-Soviet name on Dec. 30 ) .
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