Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were knocked back on the bloody floor . |
| 2 | She was hard at work in her jealously private workshop , though she called in briefly at the library from time to time , and I was invited back to the Lodge for meals some evenings . |
| 3 | It happened that I was called back to the farm on the following Thursday to " cleanse " a cow and was in the byre when Dodson the drover called to pick up Blossom . |
| 4 | I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour . |
| 5 | ‘ This morning ( 20 February ) I was moved back into the ward as I am now off the danger list . |
| 6 | I was dragged back into the boat almost immediately . |
| 7 | ‘ As it was , I was referred back by the clinic a week later because of blood pressure problems and the midwife kept a check on me . |
| 8 | And , without further ado , I was marched back into the hall , placed on the dais , the heralds braying on their trumpets . |
| 9 | Eventually I was driven back to the Noones ’ house by a blue-clad security man . |
| 10 | After thanks and apologies all round I was driven back to the Lion to find that my borrowed sheep had been sold and had disappeared . |
| 11 | I was taken back to the cell , where I started throwing the furniture about . |
| 12 | I was brought back to the mundane present by the shiver of chill that ran over me . |
| 13 | I was put back on the diet designed to ‘ build me up ’ . |
| 14 | Then I was put back onto the house . |
| 15 | When I was tipped back in the dentist 's chair |
| 16 | They formed their line again and started searching for Esmerelda while I was carried back to the house . |
| 17 | She was pressed back against the seat as Fergus accelerated again . |
| 18 | She was referred back to the medical clinic after a few months with the same clinical findings . |
| 19 | As for Mary Alice , she was flown back to the USA in June 1945 , some 11 months after her original crew . |
| 20 | It was hardly a stately progress , but as she made her triumphant way back the seas of people around her grew and grew , so that she was accompanied back into the parade ring by a whooping mob , pushing and shoving to get to her , all carried along on a tide of exultation . |
| 21 | With Dara once more clinging firmly and rather painfully to her arm she was walked back to the small , intimate table they had been sharing on the edge of the small dance-floor , but Ace was quickly on to his feet , side-stepping Dara 's attempt to greet him with a kiss . |
| 22 | Then she was driven back to the squat , where she spent all afternoon putting up her curtains where none had been , or replacing curtains for which she had no feeling . |
| 23 | Several months ago she was enticed back to the Lion in partnership with Mr Ashworth . |
| 24 | She was brought back to the moment by Louise . |
| 25 | Under hypnosis she was taken back to the first day of her stay in hospital — the day before the operation itself . |
| 26 | She was taken back into the house and made to fill a bath and to get into it . |
| 27 | Now she was sunk back in the same state , or perilously near to it . |
| 28 | But we were pulled back from the brink ; the attempt failed . |
| 29 | We were driven back through the nearly empty streets . |
| 30 | At the Legation we were welcomed back by the servants and reverted happily to our accustomed way of life . |