Example sentences of "be [verb] back [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has only been flown back a month ago from the near east . |
| 2 | THIS is the most advanced operating theatre in Europe , equipped with life-saving devices that are pushing back the frontiers of medical science . |
| 3 | Increasingly , however , bankers are pushing back the limits of technology-inspired redesign . |
| 4 | Let me just show you what it says , just get it straight , right that 's the service analysis for September nineteen ninety-two , alright so we 're going back a few months . |
| 5 | Oh yes you 're going back a few years ! |
| 6 | They 're going back the other way . |
| 7 | The covers of the bed had been drawn back a little , the action of an hotel , to show the dean pillowcases and the white sheet . |
| 8 | So the the Yes it 's been going back a the the name , the firm in that sense I think goes back a lot of years . |
| 9 | But you , only you I am afraid , yes , only you out of everyone here , are holding back the entire production . |
| 10 | Two factors are holding back the development of GIS applications . |
| 11 | Er Welsh colts and things of that nature are coming back a bit now , they are building up now er but |
| 12 | The conflagration began in the lower half of the square at the point where the houses are set back a little from the pavement . |
| 13 | This tradition itself can be traced back a long way in political theory . |
| 14 | In chart terms the band were new , but in reality their roots can be traced back an incredible 15 years . |
| 15 | We 'll also be looking back a little bit at the Breeder 's Cup , we 'll also have the result of your poll for the Channel Four racing personality of the year , there 's the picture puzzle and lots of other things as well which I ca n't remember . |
| 16 | Upwind , however , the daggerboard is still kept in the down position , though in extreme conditions it needs to be moved back a few centimetres . |
| 17 | He seemed almost disappointed to be handed back the wad of notes . |
| 18 | I 'm going back a step but I think it 's |
| 19 | In other words , I C I , Ingaselectric , A E I , all the big firms , all the er coal mines , all the British Rail , well British Rail in those days , and these large firms trained large numbers of apprentices and then after the five years they tipped you out , I 'm sorry I 'm going back a long while , into what they call an improver status and then you could either come back to the firm or you could go , stay where you were . |
| 20 | I 'm going back a bit there . |
| 21 | You mentioned Christopher , what er the last time it 's , I 'm going back a little while , the last time I was talking with Janet he , she was a bit unhappy , I think he was in er a teaching practice at the time and she was wondering how he was going to go on . |
| 22 | Aye , I 'm going back a lot of years ago |
| 23 | Oh I , I , I , I 'd one you know , oh I 'd one up , oh I 'm going back a few years now |
| 24 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 25 | Welcome back : In a few minutes we 'll be turning back the clock with the men who kept Britain 's coalmines working during the Second World War . |
| 26 | I suppose me Dan and Honey 'll be going back the cheap way . |
| 27 | But I do see the project quality plan being extremely valuable because you will be feeding back the front part of the quality plan to the client and explaining the extras that you 're going to do , or the constraints within which you 're working . |
| 28 | It seemed far too insignificant to be holding back a lake large enough to stretch from London to the Scottish borders . |
| 29 | Starting next year the Official Custodian for Charities , who has been in charge of investments on behalf of 40,000 charities , will be giving back the investments to the individual charities . |
| 30 | If , furthermore , you wished to sell us a narrow strip of your garden to allow the shelter to be set back a little from the pavement , we could consider providing a fence along your full frontage as part of the accommodation works . |