Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] back [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But the Allies had been driven back to the borders of India by the initial Japanese offensive . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’ |
| 5 | He tried to explain that magic had indeed once been wild and lawless , but had been tamed back in the mists of time by the Olden Ones , who had bound it to obey among other things the Law of Conservation of Reality ; this demanded that the effort needed to achieve a goal should be the same regardless of the means used . |