Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan was that everyone would meet at the cottage on Boxing Day , making their own way there and hopefully bringing enormous amounts of expensive food and drink if they did n't want to be turned back at the gate . |
| 2 | Michael hightails it out of town , 10,000 dollars better off , only to be turned back after a road accident . |
| 3 | She did n't want to be escorted back to the apartment by him . |
| 4 | A surge of people had to be thrust back by the Sellswords . |
| 5 | Every now and again rust pimples up , metallic lichen destined only to be beaten back by the lavish care and attention administered by Grant . |
| 6 | Sometimes they would drive off in their vehicle without the fieldworker , only to be called back by the sergeant after she made a complaint . |
| 7 | The next psychological breakpoint is the 1,000dpi mark which was the point at which digital phototypesetting began to be accepted back in the late 60s and through the 70s . |
| 8 | Yes , he was as charismatic as she remembered , with his wide smile , his open greeting as he kissed his hand to all the girls , and bowed low , so that his curls fell over his face , and had to be swept back with a gesture that was both appealing and very sexy . |
| 9 | It also fulfils a role as a vehicle for enabling Scottish views to be channelled back to the decision makers in Europe . |
| 10 | If you do not want to lose the patterns currently in the knitting machine , you can upload them to DesignaKnit and save them on to disk , ready to be downloaded back to the knitting machine when required . |
| 11 | Sitting next to Alison 's fiance , Gordon Healis , Mr Manwaring said : ‘ The streets have got to be given back to the police and the decent people of this country . ’ |
| 12 | There is a phase preceding death — perhaps moments before , perhaps even as much as a year before — when the individual life seems to dissolve and to begin to be absorbed back into the collective life . |
| 13 | In this way badly needed public resources , which can not be easily paid for , could be met by those corporations whose financial reserves are sufficient for a proportion to be ploughed back into the community from which they were originally largely reaped . |
| 14 | Given that some exhibitions such as the recent ‘ Art of Death ’ attract little or no sponsorship , profits from crowd-pullers like the Japan show last year ( which attracted 180,000 visitors and made money ) are needed to be ploughed back into the funds . |
| 15 | Later they told me that the examination had shown that I was not yet sixteen and that I was to be sent back on the next flight . ’ |
| 16 | Now time had run out and he was about to be plunged back into the horrible reality of his own miserable country , and particularly its miserable politics . |
| 17 | This policy is back in the desk drawer at the moment , but it is clearly going to be placed back on the table , since the government is even considering charging thirty pound a night for N H S beds . |
| 18 | As she responded , he increased the pressure of his lips on hers until she realised what he was trying to do , and slowly allowed herself to be pushed back into a lying position . |
| 19 | However , if they are applied in a legalistic or academic manner it is only too easy for the best interests of air safety to be pushed back into a position of secondary importance . |
| 20 | Housing was the first of the public sector programmes to be tied back in the 1960s . |
| 21 | Andy Laing was surprised to be summoned back to the bank so quickly . |
| 22 | It is an idea — the idea that the practice of our art should ideally be an avocation rather than a vocation — which has a distinguished and ancient lineage , to be traced back through the English bourgeois idea of ‘ the gentleman ’ to the Italian aristocratic idea of ‘ the courtier ’ . |
| 23 | Before the programme is finally adopted it has to be referred back to the European Parliament for a second time . |
| 24 | Such funding would have to be clawed back from the contraction of the institutions . |
| 25 | If there is no appeal or if it is rejected , Mr Cojuangco is expected to be voted back to the board . |
| 26 | Whenever the body falls backwards a reflex in the neck ( the fear reflex ) is triggered : this causes the head to be pulled back onto the spine and the shoulders to be hunched . |
| 27 | ‘ Had a good day ? ’ asked Iris as she settled into the Golf to be driven back to the auberge at the end of the afternoon . |
| 28 | Russians made repeated attempts to break through the encircling enemy — only and always to be driven back by the murderous fire of Francois 's 1st Corps , which barred the line of retreat along the route by which they had earlier advanced . |
| 29 | Despite the arrival of Pow and Currey ( who filled in for the absent Kolar ) , 'Mere continued to be driven back in the scrums . |
| 30 | A telephone statement enables the last 25 recorded transactions to be read back on the phone . |