Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] back [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not tell him how many French had crossed the frontier , nor whether blücher was concentrating his army ; all it told him was that a French force had pushed back the Prussian outposts . |
| 2 | Unable to sleep he had drawn back the front flaps of his hut to watch the spectacular storm and had been startled to see her dashing across the flooded clearing in the glare of the lightning flashes . |
| 3 | He was glad that the French had driven back the invading foreign armies , but this was no real comfort to the conflict in his mind . |
| 4 | Leaping up like that had brought back the awful queasiness . |
| 5 | But when he had fought back the overwhelming urge to ring the police and have criminal charges brought against his secretary , he had realised he could use this to his advantage . |