Example sentences of "were [verb] back [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was , Henry had noticed , a specially reverent way of saying ‘ thank you ’ when accepting a cheese and tomato sandwich at a funeral reception and he did not see why people should develop critical faculties just because they were swigging back a wine glass containing a fair quantity of the domestic bleach known as Finish 'Em . |
| 2 | and dashed out and fitted it , complete waste of bloody time mind you cos er we 've got the own software back in now , well actually the latest releases of it , we were going back a release because er we were having trouble , but it turns out it 's not our problem external problem so , put three dot seven back in . |
| 3 | The two songs were played back the next day by the tired twosome . |
| 4 | It started in the Autumn of eighty-eight , when Phil approached me and said , ‘ Look , we would like to consider putting our services that we do offer to finance in a more effective way ’ , running alongside that was a project being run by Oxfordshire Health Authority where they were sending postal surveys to elderly people ; people over the age of seventy erm sixty-five at one point , and were getting back a huge amount of information on their perceived needs . |
| 5 | But he did not finish the all-but-spoken thought , for the words were sending back an echo from his own pages , the ones now in the hands of his agent . |
| 6 | ‘ If you mean the Prince thinks that we 'd be better off if the clock were set back a couple of hundred years , ’ Caroline said , ‘ the answer 's yes . ’ |
| 7 | Kevin and his brother were putting back the whiskeys and talking about things that meant nothing to her . |
| 8 | All the older ones were put back a grade when they moved to Queensland . |
| 9 | The bride 's parents were claiming back a £490 wedding day ‘ loan ’ which the young couple say was a gift . |
| 10 | The bride 's parents were claiming back a £490 wedding day ‘ loan ’ — plus interest and costs — which the young couple say was a gift . |
| 11 | The preservationists , pinning their faith to moral superiority and persuasive argument , were beaten back every time . |
| 12 | A leading Loch Lomondside farmer , John Maxwell of Cashel Farm , said : ‘ It 's been a dreadful winter — one of the worst I can ever remember — with rain day after day and it just proves how wrong the Government were to cut back the HLCAs for hill use . ’ |
| 13 | They were to bring back a score of fighter aircraft in the same way that Deemy and his colleagues had done earlier that week . |