Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were the harrowing scenes at Heathrow airport as the group of Russian orphans prepared to return home to a country that regards them as mentally retarded … just because they 're without parents.They 'd spent twelve happy weeks in the Malvern Hills , being cared for by local schools.And they were dreading going back to Russia . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ We raised the possibility of an MBO and were told to get back in our box , ’ says finance director Nick Pearch . |
| 4 | Now that Caen had fallen , some of the villagers , were beginning to drift back to their homes . |
| 5 | ‘ They were beginning to fire back from behind the station . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His high-fliers were brought crashing back to earth by a 3-0 Tranmere victory , however . |
| 8 | Mounted officers called ‘ rangers ’ were appointed to drive back into the forest deer which had strayed into the purlieus . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , if you were intending to go back to the States with your fiancée … ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The students quickly bonded themselves into a tight knit group and they fought , argued , demanded and were encouraged to come back for more . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He had read the script of Five Easy Pieces , whose title , it did not need a genius to work out , was designed to link back to Easy Rider ( though there were no physical connections whatsoever , apart from Nicholson himself , and the thematic stance of Easy Rider . ) |
| 16 | Yeah part part of the problems was say Going back to what Sergeant said about er the people in the from the housing , being mixed . |
| 17 | Under George Bush , NASA was committed to go back to the moon and on to Mars , and the space station was arguably a step on that road . |
| 18 | According to estimates by the Reserve Bank of India , GDP growth was expected to fall back to 5-6 per cent during 1989-90 . |
| 19 | Vicente might have entrusted it to Tristram because he was being evacuated from Teruel and was expected to go back to England . |
| 20 | Russell was wanting to go back to swimming class . |
| 21 | Burhanuddin Rabbani , leader of the moderate Sunni Moslem Jamiat-i-Islami , took over the presidency of the interim government on June 28 from Seghbatullah Mujjaddedi , despite earlier suggestions that Mujjaddedi was seeking to go back on the April 24 Peshawar power-sharing accord reached by seven Sunni Moslem mujaheddin groups in Pakistan following the overthrow of the Soviet-backed Najibullah regime [ see pp. 38847 ; 38915 ] . |
| 22 | And Madge Grimsilk was seen to lean back in her chair instead of sitting upright and swallow a surprisingly large quantity of Willi 's excellent wine . |
| 23 | The limitations to this structure were already clear by the 1960s , and an attempt was made to shift back towards lighter industries and consumer goods . |
| 24 | Er , she explained to me a case she had analyzed where she , Anna Freud , was quite certain that some of the symptoms of the woman she was analyzing went back to infantile masturbation . |
| 25 | The van having arrived at the weighbridge , she got out , but was instructed to get back in as she was ‘ part of the load ’ . |
| 26 | Jakki had just returned from an idyllic holiday in America ( more of which in a moment ) when she was told to get back on a plane because the Material girl had finally agreed to give an interview on Radio One . |
| 27 | But when I enquired about the location of the Waaf Site , I was told to climb back on the wagon . |
| 28 | As soon as lunch was over , Mr Evans was fidgeting to get back to the shop . |
| 29 | The archer had to be someone who knew I was going to go back for Gareth 's camera . |
| 30 | I was going to go back to London and see what happened then . |