Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] back [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cameron and Menzies were squeezed back nearly into the house , and big Mary , finding herself hard up against Menzies , took his arm , cleared a space with a sideways butt of her hip , and twirled once round with him . |
| 2 | The Russians were pushed back northwards to the Stanovoi mountains , where the frontier fixed in 1689 by the Treaty of Nerchinsk was recognized until the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | Ca n't tell you how long a journey it was back in the fog from Liverpool that day , and then when we were relegated back again to the third division it was on the last match of the season against Charlton , and the heavens opened and a big thunder storm and it just flooded the pitch and the referee just called the match off and they had to play it again the following Friday and Charlton ran out two-one winners and Walsall finished with nine fit men and still that 's the football I suppose . |
| 4 | For all they were saying back there in the screen-room , they do n't want change . |
| 5 | The low level of stocks — manufacturers and retailers were cutting back even before the Iraqi invasion — is a main prop of the short-and-mild school . |
| 6 | The various government schemes designed to assist labour transfers ( Johnson and Salt , 1980 ) have traditionally made an extremely limited contribution to migration and were cut back further in the first half of the 1980s . |
| 7 | Other raw material was flown back daily to the CIA in America and here too a special department had to be set up to cope with the volume . |
| 8 | It disgraced itself on the Cambrian Coast Express some weeks ago and was hauled back ignominiously to the works where a tremendous flap occurred as to who paid for the necessary . |
| 9 | Saturday at sundown it was sold back again to the Reichmanns . |
| 10 | The King 's corpse , together with the saddle and bridle , was brought back here to the castle . ’ |