Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Mounted officers called ‘ rangers ’ were appointed to drive back into the forest deer which had strayed into the purlieus . |
| 2 | The two understudies were asked to come back on the Friday afternoon , when there was going to be a complete run of the play for the producers and Malcolm Harris . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , if you were intending to go back to the States with your fiancée … ’ |
| 4 | Under George Bush , NASA was committed to go back to the moon and on to Mars , and the space station was arguably a step on that road . |
| 5 | Burhanuddin Rabbani , leader of the moderate Sunni Moslem Jamiat-i-Islami , took over the presidency of the interim government on June 28 from Seghbatullah Mujjaddedi , despite earlier suggestions that Mujjaddedi was seeking to go back on the April 24 Peshawar power-sharing accord reached by seven Sunni Moslem mujaheddin groups in Pakistan following the overthrow of the Soviet-backed Najibullah regime [ see pp. 38847 ; 38915 ] . |
| 6 | But when I enquired about the location of the Waaf Site , I was told to climb back on the wagon . |
| 7 | As soon as lunch was over , Mr Evans was fidgeting to get back to the shop . |
| 8 | For a moment I thought he was going to get back to the DIY metaphor and start to try to get them to see me as undercoat or Jesus Christ as primer , but , instead , he recovered himself enough to say , ‘ Great News ! ’ |
| 9 | She assumed that , having had time to think things over , he was going to come back with the decision to tell Marc everything that had led up to this crazy engagement of theirs . |
| 10 | That would be the end of any engagements elsewhere , just when he was beginning to get back on the international circuit . |
| 11 | Barry , assistant manager at Perry 's brasserie in Beaumont Street , was forced to drive back to the bar in his own car and ordered to open the safe . |
| 12 | It was only last summer that she was allowed to get back in the swing . |
| 13 | He was sentenced to two years in prison , and was ordered to pay back to the state several thousand Swiss francs which he had used illegally to arrange a place at a Swiss university for Zhivkov 's grandson [ see p. 38017 ] . |