Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norbert was sent back into the real world , but within weeks he had registered as a disabled person and returned to the hospital . |
| 2 | Frank was lying back on the pillows with his eyes closed . |
| 3 | Simon was coming back along the waterline with Ben trotting at his heels . |
| 4 | Bobo ran to the back of her cage and Fifi had to scamper out of the way to save herself from being trampled , and then Bobo was storming back with a handful of straw and dung which she hurled at Donaldson before slamming herself into the bars and screaming loudly as they shook . |
| 5 | In September 1990 W. was referred back to the clinic which had seen her three years before and began sessions with a clinical psychologist . |
| 6 | The fastest way to talk to Grosvenor Square was to get back to the third floor . |
| 7 | Beattie was taken back to the cell and shortly afterwards brought down to the main police office where the other men who had been arrested were being assembled . |
| 8 | Then an order came to pick up Weibel again ‘ I had to hide my dismay when Weibel was bought back without a blindfold — a sure sign that he was to be killed . ’ |
| 9 | FitzAlan was leaning back against the wall , seemingly at ease , but his eyes were narrowed and the muscles of the forearm braced over his raised knee were rigid . |
| 10 | The tree-branches creaked and the dry leaves rattled , for Baba Yaga was flying back over the trees in her pestle and mortar . |
| 11 | Some may still remember Christmas 1929 , when a whale washed ashore on rocks at Looe was cast back into the sea by the townsfolk . |
| 12 | In his post-election Cabinet reshuffle Sandys was sent back to the Ministry of Supply to use his undoubted energies to create the much needed Ministry of Aviation . |
| 13 | Menzies was crouching back on the bench , his legs braced , like a cornered hare frozen in a last effort to baffle the enemy . |
| 14 | Boniface was looking back to an age in which the privileges of the churches of the Anglo-Saxons had been untouched and inviolate , or so it was thought , and he saw this age as ending — as he tells Aethelbald — in the time of Ceolred , king of the Mercians , and Osred , king of the Northumbrians ( both of whose reigns ended in 716 ) , whom Boniface accuses of behaving as Aethelbald was now doing and as a consequence of which they both perished miserably . |
| 15 | Peter was lying back on the sofa , doing nothing in particular . |
| 16 | And now the Trunchbull was leaning back against the weight of the whirling girl and pivoting expertly on her toes , spinning round and round , and soon Amanda Thripp was travelling so fast she became a blur , and suddenly , with a mighty grunt , the Trunchbull let go of the pigtails and Amanda went sailing like a rocket right over the wire fence of the playground and high up into the sky . |
| 17 | Cheryl 's three words were hardly finished before Angela was racing back to the farmhouse shouting at the top of her voice . |
| 18 | Like it or not , Louisa Agnew was driven back upon the Hall . |
| 19 | They had got into conversation one evening when Ianthe was coming back from the library where she worked , and it had reassured her — coming as a stranger to this rather doubtful neighbourhood — to meet somebody whom her mother would have described as a ‘ gentlewoman ’ . |
| 20 | Chris was looking back at a colourful four-wheeled cart drawn by two tasselled horses . |
| 21 | The conflict led to Douglas 's dismissal from the Cabinet in December 1988 and Lange 's resignation as Prime Minister in August 1989 when Douglas was voted back into the Cabinet by the Labour caucus . |
| 22 | Doyle was flung back across the table , a milk bottle exploding in the bag he held across his chest . |
| 23 | But before he could move there was a click and Doyle was starting back towards the camera . |
| 24 | If Patrick was sent back to the hospital he might be temporarily revived , but only briefly and perhaps in some damaged state . |
| 25 | In the middle of the afternoon , at the end of the six hours ' questioning , Mrs B was driven back through the dark , dreary day , and dumped outside her garage door . |
| 26 | After the children were driven away , Mrs B was taken back into the house and told the police had a warrant to search it . |
| 27 | Eventually , Haverford was driven back in the Metro the Harrisons had left at Fosdyke 's disposal . |
| 28 | She came back to collect her when she was three but after finding out the toddler was being beaten and burnt , social workers intervened and Natasha was taken back to the safety of the orphanage . |
| 29 | While Mr Stych was canoeing back down a tributary of the Mackenzie– already dangerous with chunks of ice , to an appointment with a helicopter , Mr Frizzell was trying on his last year 's brocade waistcoat and finding it too small ; Mr MacDonald , Ian 's father , was winding up a trying compensation case for his insurance company at Vermilion ; and Mr MacDonald ( oil ) was trying to explain to his superiors in Sarnia , Ontario , why he must be back in a place like Tollemarche by the middle of December . |