Example sentences of "were [vb pp] back [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-five per cent of decisions reviewed were changed , 57% were referred back to the local office and in 18% of cases the original decision was confirmed . |
| 2 | But they were pegged back in the 41st minute when John Bumstead scored with a diving header from Scott Minto ’ s centre . |
| 3 | YOU MAY sneer — God knows , my upper lip has been twitching like the pelvis of Elvis throughout this re-birth — but it is odd how bands can trundle on for decades , blithely ignored , while Madness were thrust back into a critical firing line . |
| 4 | Most of their funds were lent back to the personal sector . |
| 5 | In Nottinghamshire no less than 164,508 ‘ presumed pickets ’ were turned back during the first 27 weeks of the strike ’ ( Wallington , 1985 : 154 ) . |
| 6 | It was n't until the ninth week that orders finally came through and they were called back to the man-made square . |
| 7 | When the Dutch Texel × Welsh Mule females were crossed back to the Dutch Texel the E grade level increased to 60% . |
| 8 | One Monday night around midnight , some thirty-five vans had been brought up from New Clee sidings , pushed down Melhuish 's Jetty , loaded up , and were brought back to the middle road alongside Fish Dock Road . |
| 9 | Approximately one hour later , they were brought back to the same room and asked to retell the story again . |
| 10 | The Germans broke through the British line , but seemed unable , once again , to follow up their success , and were driven back by the last Allied reserves . |
| 11 | Mozart 's hopes were set back at an early stage for on 29 September he reported a conversation with Prince Zeill who said the Elector had told him : |
| 12 | The torturers were waved back by a senior clerk who had accompanied the French King to the dungeon . |
| 13 | Its strong stubborn wings were swept back in a magnificent curve . |
| 14 | Amaranth and Mrs de Crespigny summoned a taxi and were taken back to the Grand . |
| 15 | By 28 October the Germans were forced back by the rising waters , many were drowned and masses of weapons were lost . |
| 16 | I were knocked back on the bloody floor . |
| 17 | The issue was solved , not by due legal process , but by a brawl between the colonists and the village lads , who were chased back into the Soviet building which was later smashed up . |
| 18 | These fields in humans were discovered back in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 19 | Three police officers who tried to save the children were beaten back by the intense heat and smoke . |
| 20 | Her breasts were stranded back in the fifties . |
| 21 | Police and troops made an attempt to recapture Red House on July 29 , but were ordered back by the Prime Minister who , along with several other hostages , had been wired with explosive charges . |