Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] back [prep] the " 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | ‘ You 're going back on the defensive , Mark . |
| 18 | Do you think you could look into trying to , when we 're going back on the information , sending an individual fax for each case ? |
| 19 | ‘ We 're going back to the wireless room . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're going back to the road , sir ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We 're going back to the boat , ’ he said tersely . |
| 22 | ‘ You 've found us , we 're going back to the quarry , everything 's all right , ’ he said soothingly . |
| 23 | you 're going where ? , you 're going back to the moon , oh have you co , have you come back from the moon now ? |
| 24 | you 're going back to the moon ? |
| 25 | We 're going back to the woodblock flooring . |
| 26 | But see we 're going back to the old seasons now . |
| 27 | You 're going back after the normal four days , are n't you , Taff ? ’ |
| 28 | " We 're going back by the beach , " Kate said . |
| 29 | This was a digitally-recorded album , so you 're just playing into a microphone and what you 're getting back through the headphones tends to be a little dry and sad . |
| 30 | Oh you 're getting back to the privet hedge and suburbia are n't you ? |