Example sentences of "be [verb] back [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found it and packed it among orange and strawberry lollies so it could be taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital to be sewed back on in a four-hour operation . |
| 2 | I think that in years to come they are bound to be looked back on as an aberration . |
| 3 | Had we a powerful industrial policy in the nineteen eighties , would we be looking back now at a crisis of industrial investment in the nineteen nineties ? |
| 4 | ‘ Now it 's great to be going back there in a successful side — I only hope they give me a good reception . ’ |
| 5 | What right did he have to come back into her life like this , trying to shatter it into little pieces that could n't be put back together for a second time ? |
| 6 | A spur , sometimes inappropriately called a snag , is the result of either a breakage not being cleaned back properly to an eye or growth bud , or of pruning too far above a bud — a common case is cutting a bloom , and not paying attention to what is left behind on the plant . |
| 7 | Another cushion comes in part-time workers ( about 400 in 1989 ) , at least half of them women who were coming back part-time from a career-break scheme . |
| 8 | Just a quick post-script to my last message about tickets for the Sheff Wed game — I just managed to get through to the ticket office , and they said that all postal applications were sent back yesterday with a letter telling you that it 's been postponed , and to re-apply if you still want tickets . |
| 9 | While a person engaged in a particular event can rarely see the whole set of circumstances in clear perspective he can record the minutiae of a situation which might well be lost when the position is looked back on at a later date . |
| 10 | Already , on the side nearest the river , Osbern had reformed his men and was driving back again at a different angle . |
| 11 | The hand was sewn back on in an 11½-hour operation at Mount Vernon Hospital in Northwood , north London . |
| 12 | She wore spectacles and had fine auburn hair that was swept back untidily into a bun . |
| 13 | In 1818 , the outraged county magnates forced his withdrawal but he was swept back in by a temporary swing in support from the freehold voters . |
| 14 | A SKIRT stolen from Pamela Shawcross 's washing line at Westerham , Kent , was put back later with a note saying : ‘ The colour did n't match . ’ |