Example sentences of "we [was/were] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then we were sent back to Peenemünde . |
| 2 | We were riding back to Stratford in the spring of 1613 and stopped for the night at the Crown Inn in Oxford . |
| 3 | Off you go , ’ and I gathered we were to go back to the beginning and start again . |
| 4 | We pressed on down the Gulf and after an hour or so my radio lad in the back gave me a chit — " The Argosy has been found , return to Bahrain " — and so , led by the squadron commander , John A. MacDonald commanding No 55 at that time , we were led back to Bahrain . |
| 5 | But we were pulled back from the brink ; the attempt failed . |
| 6 | We were driven back to our home for 2 weeks by my uncle . |
| 7 | We were driven back through the nearly empty streets . |
| 8 | Then we were walking back towards the carriage , and as we passed I heard Mr Jonesy say to the preacher , ‘ I 'll give 'im the devil when I get 'im 'ome . ’ |
| 9 | On the contrary , when that afternoon 's session ended and we were walking back across the campus , he put one of his Anglepoise arms across my shoulders and attempted some avuncularity . |
| 10 | As we were walking back through the garden to the house , he said to me , ‘ Jane , you 've had a strange night . |
| 11 | At the Legation we were welcomed back by the servants and reverted happily to our accustomed way of life . |
| 12 | and that or a yeah , yes , we were coming back through that little lane in Berrison Way |
| 13 | And erm my mother used to bake , and we used to take the clothes basket with the tins of dough ready prepared by your mother and we used to take them to the bakehouse at lunchtime , when we were coming back from our from our meal , the midday meal from home , leave them at the bakehouse and so the baker had finished his morning 's baking with his oven of his own bread you see . |
| 14 | Because when we were coming back from the park at er , no not the park where was we ? |
| 15 | I know , when we were coming back from Lorna 's I mean there there was like in patches . |
| 16 | Shelter said : ‘ We were taken back by the response . |
| 17 | And , when we were driving back towards the tunnel , do you know Upper Parliament Street ? |
| 18 | Tremayne said nothing until we were driving back to the stable and then all he did was ask me if I were happy with what I 'd done . |
| 19 | Then one evening — I must have been 12 or 13 at the time — we were driving back from visiting my nan in Kent . |
| 20 | If we were to travel back in a time-machine some five million years the physical differences would be quite discernible , even though most species such as monkeys , lions , horses and eagles would still exist . |
| 21 | 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 ? " |
| 22 | The men paused in their tracks , locating the sound , and within seconds we were hurrying back to a place that we 'd passed where the sheer slope of the mountain was broken only by the deep rift of a water-course . |
| 23 | ‘ We were going back to the hotel when it happened . |
| 24 | We trudged around for an hour or so , unable to face the thought of lunch , and found another small hotel near Chamartin ( we were going back by train the next day by the last evening train ) . |
| 25 | A whole crowd of us were walking back to Denmark Street — me and Rat Scabies and Brian James — two founders of The Damned — and Mick Jones and some others . |