Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To achieve this it will be essential to create a culture where services are given back to the people and delivered with the attitude that the ‘ customer is sovereign ’ . |
| 2 | Mrs Leinen fears if they are flown back to the United States she 'll lose custody forever . |
| 3 | If Mr Newton is right , perhaps Mr Lamont will one day be able to please the traditionalists … by announcing that the railways are to go back to the good old steam age . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |
| 5 | are sucked back by the wet |
| 6 | The residuals are smoothed using the same recipe as before , and the results are added back to the results of the first smooth ; this is illustrated in exercise 9.1 . |
| 7 | But its annual surpluses ( $56 billion in fiscal 1989 ) are added back for the purposes of the Gramm-Rudman deficit-cutting law . |
| 8 | Then in winter the wicker table and chairs are moved back into the house , to be replaced by an old formica kitchen table . |
| 9 | They will also fit the 6 cylinder 109 if the bell housing is changed and the engine mounts are moved back on the chassis . |
| 10 | As fish are sinking back through the surface , other fish will be appearing through it , so that there is constant activity . |
| 11 | Just as in reverse discourse the categories of subordination are turned back upon the regimes of truth which disqualify , so this ‘ other ’ sensibility is in part affirmed as an inversion and absence of sensibility 's traditional criteria . |
| 12 | Some of those contributions are channelled back to the Church Commissioners for distribution . |
| 13 | When the project is completed , the group members are transferred back to the basic structure , or they are given operating responsibility for the new product in a new unit . |
| 14 | Love-making 's not easy when you 're driving back from an evening meeting in Cheltenham to reach London by 1.30am and you both have to be up early for work the next day . ’ |
| 15 | One driver told the interviewer : ‘ I 'm always thinking that they 're sat back in the office thinking ‘ Where has he got to ’ , and it puts you on edge so I always drive faster in a company car because time is against me . ’ |
| 16 | We 're walking back from the shops — me and Marie — and we stop for a bit to look at the lights in the electric shop . |
| 17 | Action round-up time now … two big events this week … we 're looking back on the RAC Rally and forward to the Hennesey Gold Cup |
| 18 | ‘ You 're going back on the defensive , Mark . |
| 19 | Do you think you could look into trying to , when we 're going back on the information , sending an individual fax for each case ? |
| 20 | Next time , we 're going back with a record player and a Thin Lizzy record , we 're going to plug it in and when he asks what the hell we 're doing , we 'll say , ‘ Just listening to that Les Paul on the wall there ! ' ’ |
| 21 | Now they 're going back to a sensitive area . |
| 22 | Now they 're going back to a sensitive area . |
| 23 | We 're going back to a kind of rating system with the different assessment on valuations |
| 24 | ‘ We 're going back to the wireless room . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're going back to the road , sir ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We 're going back to the boat , ’ he said tersely . |
| 27 | ‘ You 've found us , we 're going back to the quarry , everything 's all right , ’ he said soothingly . |
| 28 | you 're going where ? , you 're going back to the moon , oh have you co , have you come back from the moon now ? |
| 29 | you 're going back to the moon ? |
| 30 | We 're going back to the woodblock flooring . |