Example sentences of "[vb pp] back by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father had n't come back by one o'clock . |
| 2 | But each time they were pegged back by United substitute Ward , who had not scored in 21 previous outings this season . |
| 3 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 4 | So many made it onto land only to be turned back by some unforeseen ailment . |
| 5 | A UN convoy which set off for Srebrenica yesterday was turned back by Serbian police backed up by an armoured car . |
| 6 | Another convoy , carrying supplies for UN forces in Sarajevo , was also turned back by Bosnian forces . |
| 7 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 8 | Following studies by Eastern Region 's engineers , a new tracklaying strategy was introduced in 1987 whereby — with the use of a new machine called the Dynamic Track Stabiliser — tracks could be handed back by 06.00 on Monday morning at the full 125mph line speed , eliminating the need for a temporary speed restriction and associated recovery time allowance . |
| 9 | Since the 1900s , despite the increasing numbers of the elderly , the proportion has again fallen back by more than a third . |
| 10 | When he arrived at Manly beach with a board he had carved out of sugar pine , many were those who said that riding a wave on a board was pure myth , a legend of the South Seas brought back by drunken sailors . |
| 11 | Ida McAninly , of St Albans Street , Tow Law , says it 's years since she stood on Witton Park Station , but the memories are brought back by this photograph . |
| 12 | Thus far Cadfael had deferred his own news in favour of the far more urgent word brought back by these battered survivors from the forests of Leicestershire . |
| 13 | Park did not have the manpower to resist and were driven back by forward rushes , rolling mauls from which Pepper was able to launch his attacks . |
| 14 | Splitting into two teams for the first attempt , Fowler and Jones climbed the incomplete Japanese route up the south ridge but were driven back by poor weather , while Saunders and Sustad attempted the spur . |
| 15 | A number of previous attempts to penetrate this male club had been unsuccessful , with the raiding parties being driven back by irate men . |
| 16 | But there was some evidence from the launch of the Mail on Sunday that the missing readers could be lured back by new papers . |
| 17 | Attempts to bolster the numbers of the endangered rufous hare wallaby in the Australian outback have been set back by domestic cats , which have killed 11 of the rare animals introduced to remote areas after a captive breeding programme . |
| 18 | Frankish annals record that Eardwulf visited Charlemagne and Pope Leo III and that he was escorted back by imperial and papal envoys and re-established in his kingdom in 808 . |
| 19 | On this bright evening , they were looped back by twisted and tasselled cords ; light came streaming in through the sashed plate-glass windows . |
| 20 | In early trading , the Footsie one hundred gained a massive a hundred and fifty points before being cut back by early profit taking , and renewed uncertainty from the Gulf . |
| 21 | Members of the around 5,000-strong crowd smashed windows before being forced back by parliamentary guards and police using water-cannon . |
| 22 | I thought you were her lover , someone she 'd never told me about , and I was just knocked back by all the emotions I felt . |
| 23 | FOUR intrepid Everest climbers had to admit defeat last night as they were beaten back by deep snow and bitter winds on the riskiest bid in history . |
| 24 | But they were beaten back by thick smoke before they could reach young Sandy Lee . |
| 25 | ‘ Look , Maud , ’ pleaded Mildred , ‘ I know it 's hard for you to believe me , but that frog in the pond really is a magician and he can only be changed back by another magician . |
| 26 | If you have dropped the computer , maybe only a few inches , and the failures started after this , then give your local repair man a ring for a quotation without delay or you could write a file to the disk which can not be read back by another machine , or your own for that matter , when the heads have been realigned to their correct setting . |
| 27 | Budgeting loans are paid back by weekly deductions from benefit . |
| 28 | After holding a memorial service for Kang , the students , armed with missiles and petrol bombs , attempted to march into the city centre but were held back by 6,000 riot police using tear gas and water cannon . |
| 29 | They surged forward but were held back by two very large and determined security men . |
| 30 | In the English Midlands and south east , winter wheat and oilseed crops were held back by poor autumn seedbeds and waterlogging . |