Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] back [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was , Henry had noticed , a specially reverent way of saying ‘ thank you ’ when accepting a cheese and tomato sandwich at a funeral reception and he did not see why people should develop critical faculties just because they were swigging back a wine glass containing a fair quantity of the domestic bleach known as Finish 'Em . |
| 2 | and dashed out and fitted it , complete waste of bloody time mind you cos er we 've got the own software back in now , well actually the latest releases of it , we were going back a release because er we were having trouble , but it turns out it 's not our problem external problem so , put three dot seven back in . |
| 3 | The two songs were played back the next day by the tired twosome . |
| 4 | It started in the Autumn of eighty-eight , when Phil approached me and said , ‘ Look , we would like to consider putting our services that we do offer to finance in a more effective way ’ , running alongside that was a project being run by Oxfordshire Health Authority where they were sending postal surveys to elderly people ; people over the age of seventy erm sixty-five at one point , and were getting back a huge amount of information on their perceived needs . |
| 5 | But he did not finish the all-but-spoken thought , for the words were sending back an echo from his own pages , the ones now in the hands of his agent . |
| 6 | ‘ If you mean the Prince thinks that we 'd be better off if the clock were set back a couple of hundred years , ’ Caroline said , ‘ the answer 's yes . ’ |
| 7 | Kevin and his brother were putting back the whiskeys and talking about things that meant nothing to her . |
| 8 | All the older ones were put back a grade when they moved to Queensland . |
| 9 | The bride 's parents were claiming back a £490 wedding day ‘ loan ’ which the young couple say was a gift . |
| 10 | The bride 's parents were claiming back a £490 wedding day ‘ loan ’ — plus interest and costs — which the young couple say was a gift . |
| 11 | The preservationists , pinning their faith to moral superiority and persuasive argument , were beaten back every time . |
| 12 | A leading Loch Lomondside farmer , John Maxwell of Cashel Farm , said : ‘ It 's been a dreadful winter — one of the worst I can ever remember — with rain day after day and it just proves how wrong the Government were to cut back the HLCAs for hill use . ’ |
| 13 | They were to bring back a score of fighter aircraft in the same way that Deemy and his colleagues had done earlier that week . |
| 14 | Then he was drawing back a little , his eyes washing over her . |
| 15 | He was knocking back a bottle of vodka each morning while he was making The Devil 's Brigade . |
| 16 | Wpc Jones was keeping back the crowd and he called to her , ‘ Send for the ambulance ! ’ |
| 17 | He was pulling back the calf 's head so the brown eyes rolled up and only the whites were showing , and opening its mouth by slipping his thumb in at the side . |
| 18 | And , using all his force , he ran and crashed into the second assassin , who was winching back the arbalest for another bolt . |
| 19 | There was a gulping sound as though the model was choking back a sob . |
| 20 | It was perhaps the argument that this imposition of middle-class morality was holding back the British cinema which led to the matter becoming an issue of public concern . |
| 21 | Sir Anthony had concluded his business with the plump lawyer as far as he was able to overcome his distaste for discussing deals or mentioning money , and he was holding back the brambles for her , as it were , letting her into their company , and she butted through , a young dog again , let out for a walk . |
| 22 | He was brought back a few hours later , dazed and dreamy , with a dull headache and no very clear notion of what had been done to him or why . |
| 23 | The fact she was taking back a Moabitess as her , as a relation , as her daughter-in-law was a , would be a constant reminder , I disobeyed God ! |
| 24 | At Knossos and Phaistos , an extra refinement in the masonry of the West fronts was a foundation course of very large blocks : the rest of the wall was stepped back a centimetre or two to make a feature of it . |
| 25 | Their job was to hold back the Chinese , and they did . |
| 26 | The research of the great ecologist David Lack ( 1954 ) showed for example that in many bird species of temperate zones , individuals were reproducing as fast as they were able and that the subsequent population was cut back every year by winter mortality . |
| 27 | She was fighting back the tears , and her throat hurt . |
| 28 | When he had come back from Grasmere the first thing he had done — despite George Wood 's vehement protests — was to pay back the loan and bring his hotel bill up to the mark . |
| 29 | Although he was sacked he was taken back a fourth time and he did indeed die in harness . |
| 30 | ‘ Are you glad we came , Agnes ? ’ she asked her friend who was standing back a little from the craftsmen as they worked . |