Example sentences of "were [verb] back in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were looking back in eighteen fifteen at twenty odd years of war and revolution . |
| 2 | After a storm they were washed back in dozens , but most of them were broken or half ground to powder . |
| 3 | Pensioners Jim and Yolanda Byrne say they were told back in 1951 that they would only have to stay in their Liverpool maisonette for six months . |
| 4 | Pensioners Jim and Yolanda Byrne say they were told back in 1951 that they would only have to stay in their Liverpool maisonette for six months . |
| 5 | The last time Cuban exiles were allowed back in large numbers , during a goodwill period in the late 1970s , the country nearly collapsed in shock at the wealth they brought in their luggage . |