Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] back to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were brought back to school and curtains and rugs were cut out of the fabrics for the house , each being labelled as to the fibre , eg wool , cotton , silk , polyester , nylon . |
| 2 | We were brought back to reality by Marty , who stood dripping on the pier head in a bitter east wind shouting , " Come on , when you lot have finished , what about giving me the headrope ? " |
| 3 | Tranmere 2 Portsmouth 0 PORTSMOUTH who , on Sunday , came agonisingly close to depriving Liverpool of a place in the FA Cup Final , were brought back to earth when they visited the unfashionable part of Merseyside last night . |
| 4 | Eurodollar deposits , on lent , became the means by which the OPEC surpluses were re-cycled back to deficit countries to enable such deficits to be financed . |
| 5 | I was up there for six weeks , I passed the course and was posted back to Brigade H Q to a wider posting to a regiment . |
| 6 | There he remained until 18 March 1986 when , no doubt because his condition had deteriorated , he was transferred back to hospital . |
| 7 | Shaken to have found herself so suddenly envious of Liz 's happy home life , and startled to realise that no amount of money could create these comfortable surroundings , Laura was jerked back to reality by the sound of Ross 's voice . |
| 8 | His opponent , John Brien , 19 , was pulled back to all-square by the 15th , but won the 16th to go ahead again . |
| 9 | One guard shot during the raid on a security van in Cheltenham last year , was brought back to life by a passing nurse , according to the prosecution . |
| 10 | Now and then , I was brought back to reality by the bleached bones of a camel or a black coil of wire , the skeleton of an abandoned tyre whose rubber had perished . |
| 11 | She was brought back to reality by the pain in her ankle which , without her realising , she 'd put her full weight on . |
| 12 | Information from these satellites was brought back to earth at the NSA stations at Menwith Hill in Britain and Pine Gap in Australia . |
| 13 | De Gaulle was swept back to power . |
| 14 | Father-of-two Jackson , of Tune Street , Barnsley , was taken back to court on a charge of criminal damage . |
| 15 | About two or three months after that , I got into trouble again and was taken back to prison . |
| 16 | The judges granted a warrant for the re-arrest of Smith who was taken back to prison . |
| 17 | Instead ‘ Akkawi was taken back to interrogation where he suffered a heart attack . |
| 18 | Information they gathered was sent back to platoon headquarters by runner and radioed from the village to Company headquarters . |
| 19 | Sarajevo radio broadcast a dramatic appeal from civilians trapped in the besieged eastern Bosnian town of Cerska , which had been the destination of a UN relief convoy that was ordered back to base after the aid suspension . |
| 20 | The nursing staff said she got off the delivery table herself , and could not understand why she was ordered back to bed . |
| 21 | Here , when I came closest to watching my own slow death from septicaemia after a motorbike accident , and Western medicines had ceased to work , I was nursed back to health by their healers . |