Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , if you were intending to go back to the States with your fiancée … ’ |
| 2 | 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 ] . |
| 3 | As soon as lunch was over , Mr Evans was fidgeting to get back to the shop . |
| 4 | 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 ! ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | That would be the end of any engagements elsewhere , just when he was beginning to get back on the international circuit . |