Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | And if you recall when my Colonel read John plaque it attributes to him er the aid in assisting us at in the establishment of that memorial museum , John gave us a er and sort of took that apart and hauled it over to and it was flown back to the States and that 's going to be a briefing operations room for the museum itself . |
2 | It was carried back on the blowing sand , but it moved unhurriedly forward . |
3 | ‘ Oh , a party from the castle across the Forth , they gathered it up and it was taken back on a royal barge . ’ |
4 | In 1972 , it was allowed back into the region , like some disgraced aristocrat returning from exile . |
5 | It is worth lingering over Churchill 's ‘ overlord ’ experiment , as it was put back on the agenda of reform by Sir Douglas Wass , former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury , in his 1983 Reith Lectures . |
6 | After the Merlin was inspected by Aviation Jersey it was shipped back to the USA for rebuild by Vintage V12 , returning to the UK later in the year . |
7 | ‘ Let's go and find the bastards , ’ Sharpe grunted , and once he had said it he marvelled at how easy it was to slip back into the old ways of speaking about the enemy . |
8 | It was frightening , how easy it was to slip back into the past . |
9 | I guessed that it was set back in the farmhouse , unless he had some sort of remote control toy . |
10 | In fact , it was coming back from the Tadcaster job that the old Atlas van that we had , blew up — the big ends just blew out of it and we had to dump it there and go . |