Example sentences of "be [verb] back [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last ten days gradually it has been coming back since the really trough period in late January with the war and the snow , etc. , and in fact this week erm we 're expecting this week to probably do double the level of bookings that we did last week , and that 's on overseas holidays for summer and winter . |
| 2 | For in a few days , this same man would be reporting back to the most feared woman in Britain . |
| 3 | We were driven back through the nearly empty streets . |
| 4 | Those who had previously found part of their income from ironmaking were thrown back on the less adequate resources of Wealden farming , although a small number of nomads continued to burn charcoal for the London market , camping in branch and sod hovels as they migrated from wood to wood . |
| 5 | A schoolmasterly exposition of the law : Andrew Brown sat in on a High Court trial — and was transported back to the strangely mingled fears and absurdities of a prep-school |
| 6 | I was flying back on the 9am British Airways shuttle from the EC Summit on Saturday morning . |
| 7 | She glanced at him , noticing that he was staring back through the partly open door of the study . |