Example sentences of "[verb] [was/were] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who had previously found part of their income from ironmaking were thrown back on the less adequate resources of Wealden farming , although a small number of nomads continued to burn charcoal for the London market , camping in branch and sod hovels as they migrated from wood to wood . |
| 2 | A farm-boy who came up to help was sent back to the farmhouse to cancel the fire-brigade call . |
| 3 | What I had to do was go back to the town centre and … |
| 4 | The best idea they had was to travel back to the Wars of the Roses and bring two armoured knights with them into the age of the Krooms . |
| 5 | A major advantage of this type of input was that these basic validation checks were made at input time and any errors detected were displayed back to the operator immediately , thus allowing corrections to be made quickly . |