Example sentences of "[been] [verb] back [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The applause from the crowd round the green must have been heard back at the clubhouse . |
| 2 | An NRA spokesman said the spillage had been traced back to the Lartington Treatment Works , where there had been no threat to drinking water . |
| 3 | A spokesman for the ministry confirmed that an outbreak of food poisoning in Bedworth in July had been traced back to the monastery . |
| 4 | The issue has been referred back to the MacLeod Estates , from whom a reply is awaited . |
| 5 | She had been walking back along the track , head bent , deep in thought . |
| 6 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 7 | Whatever evidence the IAAF officials discovered in the laboratory , one only needed to look at recent pictures of Johnson , in which he resembled an inflated balloon , to guess that his improved times showed he 'd been sucked back into the drug culture . |
| 8 | This softly layered bob has been teased back from the face and dressed with wax |
| 9 | The trap in Sam 's boathouse kept intruding and so did Angela Brickell ; the cold threat of khaki water that could rush into aching lungs to bring oblivion and the earthy girl who 'd been claimed back by the earth , eaten clean by earth creatures , become earth-digested dust . |
| 10 | Since the death of Tito in 1980 , and with the growing economic crisis , which is felt by Serbians to have particularly affected them ( although there is , in fact , little evidence that Serbia 's relative position has fallen in comparison with Yugoslavia as a whole ) , a growing number of Serb intellectuals have been looking back over the past and asking themselves whether Serbia was discriminated against under ‘ Titoist ’ rule . |
| 11 | As you will have noticed , the strategies we have reviewed have been operating back along the stress cycle ( as shown in Figure 1 on page 70 ) at points nearer and nearer the source . |
| 12 | The Vietnamese have finally got control of their own country after forty years of war ; defeated the Japs , the French , us , and the most powerful nation in the history of the planet in succession , with bicycles , guns and guts , been bombed back into the bronze age in the process and all you can do is spout some tired nonsense about little yellow men infiltrating the steaming jungles of the Nullarbor Plain and turning the Aussies into Commies ; I think a Highland League side winning the European Cup is marginally more likely . ’ |
| 13 | Hoping against hope that she had not ducked out back to her own flat — not that she 'd blame her ! — Leith skirted the room until her eyes were drawn to a settee that had been pushed back to the side of the room . |
| 14 | A few Bronze Age artifacts were turned up in the dark soil , but they had meant nothing to those who had seen them , and they had been turned back into the earth . |
| 15 | Nevertheless AFHQ was not informed that the Croats had been turned back until the morning of 16 May , and even then it took some time for the information to be fully taken in by all branches concerned . |
| 16 | Once all the useful substances have been absorbed back into the tree , the end of the leaf stalk is closed off and the leaf dies and falls . |
| 17 | Demonstrating what a simple change at the top can achieve , Compaq Computer Corp , which had sales of $3,200m last year and had been heading back towards the $2,000m mark under the previous regime , last week announced that it had made it through the $4,000m sales barrier for 1992 , with profits up 34% in the most recent quarter . |
| 18 | In October 1944 the Leaders faced the problem of redecorating the Primary School room which had been handed back to the church after having been in use during the War as a First Aid Post for a unit of the St John 's Ambulance Brigade led by Miss Mary Lutton . |
| 19 | Four bags of toxic waste which were found abandoned on the Oxford ring road have been handed back to the company that lost them . |
| 20 | German embassy officials in Moscow said the unframed pictures , contained in a battered brown portfolio , had been handed back to the embassy by a former Red Army officer who insisted on remaining anonymous . |
| 21 | Sandwiches had been sold back in the Store 's Food Hall . |
| 22 | He saw service in both world wars , having been called back to the RAF reserve when the Second World War broke out and stayed in until 1947 . |
| 23 | Command of the main army was entrusted for the moment to a veteran Huguenot general , Sir John [ later first Earl of ] Ligonier , aged 65 , who had also been called back from the Continent , though it was understood he would become subordinate to Cumberland as soon as the latter was ready to take over . |
| 24 | I certainly would n't have been invited back to the Parsons ' , but I could have lived with that . |
| 25 | For a moment , until the old men had been dragged back to the barricade , all was chaos . |
| 26 | The evacuees included 3,000 who had returned to their homes on Monday but had been driven back to the centres by the volcano 's sulphurous stench . |
| 27 | But the Allies had been driven back to the borders of India by the initial Japanese offensive . |
| 28 | On Jan. 25 the government claimed that the rebels had suffered many casualties and had been driven back over the border into Uganda . |
| 29 | The oval dining table stood before the rear window , but it held in the middle a model of the house on a low plinth as if it were a museum exhibit , and the eight high-backed dining chairs had been set back against the walls . |
| 30 | All that had been achieved was a more punitive regime , while the cause of sex reform had been set back by the whitewashing of women and the doctrine of the uncleanness of men . |