Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , the forwards were expected to fall back to help the defence under pressure . |
| 2 | The practice of ‘ warping ’ , whereby tidal waters were made to flow back and deposit their rich silts over the land , was popular . |
| 3 | Thirty-seven stitches were needed to sew back a flap in his face which went from the side of his nose and tore the corner of his mouth . |
| 4 | When George Bush and others rang up with congratulations , they were told to call back later . |
| 5 | On 16th December 1991 , the building societies and bank bosses were called in by the Government for an emergency briefing and were told to come back in two days with solutions . |
| 6 | ‘ We raised the possibility of an MBO and were told to get back in our box , ’ says finance director Nick Pearch . |
| 7 | Had you any had you any clue at all that they were going to go back ? |
| 8 | I think they were so nervous to play anything that would imply for the space shot or against the space shot — whether the guys were going to come back or not . |
| 9 | I feel down and thought they were going to come back again to finish me off . ’ |
| 10 | I think there was a law passed in Scotland … that a certain class should educate its children , its boys , in England , to alienate them from the people they were going to come back and rule over . |
| 11 | Now that Caen had fallen , some of the villagers , were beginning to drift back to their homes . |
| 12 | ‘ They were beginning to fire back from behind the station . |
| 13 | Now , the reason we particularly were interested in this was that from the questionnaire we already were beginning to get back some information , and we discovered that eighty-six percent of people had seen their G P in the previous year , and maybe if we could introduce them to the age-well project at some point during that contact , we would be able to achieve something . |
| 14 | People were still walking up the drive , and one or two were beginning to walk back down it : they must 've had enough of visiting for today , like me . |
| 15 | The other apprentices were beginning to file back , Evelyn among them . |
| 16 | And er there was a stage when we came to the , where we really decided we 'd have to earmark different streets , how far we were gon na go in the centre of the town , because people were beginning to get grants for altering houses , and then in another five years time the council , the council were having to buy back these houses to redevelop the area . |
| 17 | Mounted officers called ‘ rangers ’ were appointed to drive back into the forest deer which had strayed into the purlieus . |
| 18 | The two understudies were asked to come back on the Friday afternoon , when there was going to be a complete run of the play for the producers and Malcolm Harris . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , if you were intending to go back to the States with your fiancée … ’ |
| 20 | Egypt closed its airspace and two Libyan aircraft were forced to turn back . |
| 21 | They were forced to turn back , part with their briefcases and leave by the main exit , enduring a search and the humiliation of the crowd . |
| 22 | We got onto the summit crest but were forced to turn back . |
| 23 | The TUC edict was followed on 5 July by action against the Cricklewood sorters — they were laid off by the Post Office management and threatened with the withdrawal of strike pay by the Union of Post Office Workers and as a result were forced to go back to handling Grunwick mail . |
| 24 | So it was that just seven years after leaving Wales full of dreams of a lucrative new life , Dennis and Joan were forced to fly back to Glamorgan . |
| 25 | The students quickly bonded themselves into a tight knit group and they fought , argued , demanded and were encouraged to come back for more . |
| 26 | He warned that conservatives were trying to claw back power . |
| 27 | I just assumed they were trying to cut back as they had been a bit too lavish . |
| 28 | Faced with ugly double glazing , acres of Artex , false ceilings and other ‘ improvements ’ , they were determined to put back as many original features as possible . |
| 29 | A press release on Scottish Office notepaper was dispatched to the Woodhill House HQ saying the conference had heard community care was to be postponed due to a miscalculation of infrastructure costs , which authorities were required to pay back by 31 April . |
| 30 | An impromptu mod of 1943 was intended to hit back . |