Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] back in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd begun back in the fifties as a prison officer . |
| 2 | Calico , which got started back in the early 1980s and which Unir claims AT&T could n't push because of USL and C++ , has reportedly 200 man/years invested in it . |
| 3 | Before that the village 's only successful days had occurred back in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when it was a centre of the Basque whaling trade . |
| 4 | Dunwoody was surprised when the judge called him the winner on Remittance Man in the opening Bristol Novice Hurdle , believing Peter Scudamore had got back in the final strides on the favourite Regal Ambition after being headed halfway up the run-in . |
| 5 | When he had arrived back in the cold dawn that early morning after the night with Emily , it was to find his landlady Mrs McIntosh waiting , his valise and books by her , her face severe . |
| 6 | Thus was sexual liberation defined by an almost exclusively male heterosexual group , drawing on old subversions — Dada , Surrealism , Beat , Situationism — diffused through the mass-market expansion into commercial sex that Playboy had pioneered back in the 1950s . |