Example sentences of "been [vb pp] back [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And that would have been ironic , would n't it , now he 's been posted back to HQ . |
| 2 | The Socialists have been plunged back into gloom . |
| 3 | The old control tower has been pressed back into service , but this time using mobile equipment . |
| 4 | Everything has always been referred back to mother . |
| 5 | Dudley Clarke had been the only casualty , hit in the ear , which had been sewn back in place by a petty officer as the boat left the beach . |
| 6 | But in September Ninety Ninety two of these the pins had n't been locked back into place . |
| 7 | At first the Russians had been driven back in disorder , but in the months of July and August they had begun to recover and had driven the Poles back on their tracks until finally the Red Army was at the gates of Warsaw itself . |
| 8 | Just such a house has been brought back to life by Timothy and Christine Easton . |
| 9 | Situated in the historic ‘ Boston ’ area of Enniskillen , ( nearby is the Boston-Quay from where in the 19th century paupers were ferried across the river to the workhouse ) the recently restored and refurbished buildings have been brought back to life as a thriving market place and exciting resource centre for craft and design in Fermanagh . |
| 10 | Also heading for Scotland is James Leckey whose Village Homes Cosworth 4x4 has been rushed back into shape after suffering damaged suspension on last weekend 's Mayo Rally . |
| 11 | Of the valley-floor fields , 17 hectares have been put back under rice as a cash crop , while four hectares each have been planted with maize and yucca ( a starchy root crop ) for their own consumption . |
| 12 | In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly . |
| 13 | The Terminator has been sent back in time from a future world dominated by machines to assassinate Sarah ( Linda Hamilton from TV 's Beauty and the Beast ) . |
| 14 | In February 1974 , the Conservative Government called an early general election : their incomes policy was in tatters and their attempt to legislate on industrial relations had been beaten back by action on the factory floor and the streets . |
| 15 | You know without the women 's support group especially and without other support you know , we would 've been starved back to work . |
| 16 | … many have been nursed back to health from the brink of starvation . |
| 17 | Development of the sizeable potential market in the countries of the former Soviet Union for translations of western academic and serious general books , which exists despite the growing universality of the English language , has been held back by lack of hard currency . |