Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latest round of interest rate rises has postponed for another six months the earliest date the pendulum can be expected to swing back . |
| 2 | After two miles , a halt should be made to look back at Ullapool , a lovely picture with the odd effect that the buildings seem to be floating on the waters of Loch Broom . |
| 3 | Then from the French trenches were to be seen streaming back to our lines , first a few prisoners here and there , then more and more , and at last whole columns of them ; I breathed freely once more ! |
| 4 | My Chief-of-Staff , who had been following the progress of the attack from a more distant position in Consenvoye Wood on the eastern bank , telephoned to me that the attack had failed and that everywhere our men could be seen falling back . |
| 5 | They , they could be used to feed back and complete a control loop within the company not just within the site . |
| 6 | This year , with the Democrats poised to win the state , the national leadership is looking to see whether the same tactics can be used to turn back the tide on the Republicans nationwide . |
| 7 | The rest of the 50 minutes should be used to look back on the previous lectures and notes on the same topic . |
| 8 | This can be used to pay back the capital you borrow now . |
| 9 | Because we never actually forget anything but store it all in our mental filing system , hypnotic regression can be used to bring back both good memories and bad . |
| 10 | Third , an Esop can be used to buy back shares from existing employee shareholders . |
| 11 | Digital Biometrics Inc , Minnetonka , Minnesota maker of electronic fingerprint systems says it has filed an amended registration statement with the US Securities & Exchange Commission to increase its shares of common stock to 2m — the public currently holds 1.0m and another 1.0m shares are held by the its principal shareholder ; proceeds from the latest offering will be used to buy back and cancel the principal shareholder 's shares . |
| 12 | If push ever did come again to shove , American muscles would be needed to push back . |
| 13 | The Bosnian Serbs may be persuaded to give back a little more land elsewhere , if President Milosevic of Serbia judges that this will speed the removal of the sanctions the world has imposed on his country . |
| 14 | She may even be persuaded to come back with me , to stay a week or longer , Dorothea decided , for she had no reason to live in that ugly little town house alone now that her father was dead . |
| 15 | Perfect to play on the hand-crafted Daly billard table , which will mop up the spare £47,000 you could n't be bothered to take back to the bank . |
| 16 | Erm , I probably would have done because I made lots of mistakes and I could n't be bothered to go back and check them ! |
| 17 | Gently and skilfully he must be challenged to think back and think deeply . |
| 18 | It was n't that he was n't playing well , it just seemed like he could n't be arsed chasing back and helping Kelly out , I do n't know if he was knackered though . |
| 19 | However the fossils can also be reinterpreted to fit back into old phyla : |
| 20 | Could none be found to come back and give praise to God except this foreigner ? |
| 21 | Erm if you wish to proceed with this proposal , I would suggest perhaps that erm it is n't uncertainty of responsibility but perhaps the extent of responsibilities and powers of the various agencies which need to be clarified and I , it is , it is pro probably that area which erm will be addressed by er th the analysis which takes place erm after the immediate problems are behind us er but certainly the implications for the Strategic Planning Committee erm and for , perhaps for local planning or something which erm the Chief Officers could be asked to report back to this Committee . |
| 22 | erm Students will be asked to report back to the next erm sub-committee |
| 23 | I hope you will do your duty ’ , and then collapsed in tears to be led weeping back to the palace and to her new role as Regent . |
| 24 | If there is time , students should now be encouraged to go back to some of the more difficult Tape Units dealing with connected speech ( say from Tape Unit 12 onwards , missing out Tape Unit 15 ) ; they will probably discover a lot of things they did not notice before . |
| 25 | The idea is that if elderly people can be encouraged to think back to the times when they had lots of relationships , and when they felt they had some status and worth , then they are able to feel that status carry over more into their present life . |
| 26 | If they can be encouraged to come back , I think it'sa of great significant and symbolic importance . |
| 27 | Children can be encouraged to look back at how they found particular pieces of information and to ask themselves whether this was done in the most efficient way . |
| 28 | Salespeople should also be encouraged to send back to head office information which is relevant to the marketing of company products . |
| 29 | The contractors , having racked themselves to the limit to fight off all other comers , may be forced to cut back on programme spending , to the detriment of exactly the kind of endeavours which may give delight to many but have no great appeal to the masses . |
| 30 | Yeah I think at the onset of the strike there were a few people who were considered likely to be forced to get back to work or to go back to work , because of what they 'd said , because of well just you know because of what they say in the meetings or because of what they did n't say in the meetings . |