Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relegation followed , and the hopelessly over-stretched club were sliding back towards the Fourth Division when Toshack resigned in 1984 . |
| 2 | Her glance was drawn back to the bed again when , clearly befuddled , and with no idea how he came to be where he was , he slurred , ‘ How did I get here ? ’ |
| 3 | The stranger was led back through the empty trains to the car shed pits where he could gain access to the street . |
| 4 | The card was borne back on a silver tray . |
| 5 | Miroslav Stepan , former Communist Party secretary in Prague , was sentenced on Oct. 22 to 30 months ' imprisonment following confirmation by an appeal court of his July conviction on charges of abuse of power connected with the suppression of a Prague demonstration on Oct. 28 , 1988 ; a second charge relating to a January 1989 demonstration was referred back to the Prosecutor 's Office [ for his conviction and initial sentence of four years ' imprisonment see p. 37737 ] . |
| 6 | After measurements had been carried out under each of these conditions , the metre rule was moved back towards the experimenter so that the subject could see his/her finger when pointing . |
| 7 | The only other alternative was to go back to the cottage , as well he 'd known . |
| 8 | The fabrics side was held back by a decline in demand for batiks in West Africa . |
| 9 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |
| 10 | The bug was traced back to the Farmoor treatment works which only started supplying Swindon from last August . |
| 11 | Wooden shutters of washed-out blue and green were folded back against the walls to show thick , beautifully patterned lace at the windows . |
| 12 | The Peke-faced cat was known back in the 1930s , but the other three were all discovered in the 1960s and were quickly established by enthusiastic local breeders , delighted to be founding new lines of pedigree cats . |
| 13 | Disagreement arose within the PLO regarding its composition and the issue was referred back to the Executive Committee . |
| 14 | Evenwood were pegged back by a Darren Rawlston goal at home to Billingham Town after Sean Monaghan had put them ahead . |
| 15 | The two restored to Christian commitment and active church membership were brought back through the testimony of their teenage son and daughter . |
| 16 | All she longed to do at this very moment was run back to the Gasthaus and hide in her room . |
| 17 | Vocals went straight down with only the minimum of top end EQ to keep them sharp , and when I went for the final mixdown I have to say I was amazed at how big a sound was coming back from the monitors . |
| 18 | But Ruth 's eye was drawn back to the great tower of rock , and on the very top , high above , she seemed to see a jut of walls and pinnacles , glimmering like hard edges of light . |
| 19 | His attention was jerked back to the issue at hand as the tennis ball bounced up in front of him , hitting him in the face . |
| 20 | But Cardiff 's attention was drawn back to the wall . |
| 21 | And unknown to us drama was unfolded back on the mainland . |
| 22 | She was the first to get to get to know about the lady whose husband was coming back from the Forces . |
| 23 | Bénezet was sauntering back to the guesthall with his gleanings , when he observed Brother Jerome rounding the box hedge from the garden , head down and in a hurry . |
| 24 | The sun still shed a great sparkle on the sea but the heat had gone from it and the dusk was gathering back in the valley . |
| 25 | She barely had time to assimilate the sudden rapid rise and fall of his chest before her head was wrenched back with a less than gentle hand and her mouth was captured by his . |
| 26 | News about this dynamic activist was sent back to the Gold Coast , and he seemed just the man they needed to organise a political organisation to associate a mass following with the upper-middle-class political elite , who were already restless within the confines of the Burns constitution . |
| 27 | The water was pumped back to the pond through two central heating circulators — one through a venturi and the other to the small header pools and back via a cascade . |
| 28 | The hourly off-peak service from Euston to Liverpool and Manchester was an early casualty when the service was cut back to a ninety-minute headway , but the most far-reaching change concerned the Anglo-Scottish services between Euston and Glasgow . |
| 29 | time that the education was put back to the parents to enforce both |
| 30 | Patriarchal power in education was coming back in a big way , and was endorsed in the 1986 Education Act 's stipulation that sex education should be taught within a moral framework and with due regard to family life . |