Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] back to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His solicitors were only told at 9am he was being brought back to court . |
| 2 | The old stone pillars were shaking as if they were being brought back to life . |
| 3 | Erm a little bit of steam around so you do get an impression that it 's erm you know , it 's alive and working obviously not doing a day 's work , but certainly being restored back to working condition . |
| 4 | Conducted professionally , regression therapy does not involve subjects being taken back to childhood ‘ by being put in nappies , bottle-fed and alternately shouted at and hugged … ’ |
| 5 | You mentioned about erm not being starved back to work . |
| 6 | ‘ At my wife 's generous insistence I have not deducted one penny for the week you have spent in bed under our roof , being nursed back to health by the kindness of your mistress 's heart . ’ |
| 7 | Moore caused considerable scandal by depicting Jesus as surviving the Crucifixion , and being nursed back to health by Joseph of Arimathea . |