Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , erm , we found ourselves in , rather to go back . |
| 2 | A tacit collusion is set up between narrator and reader not to take the novel too solemnly , but rather to sit back and enjoy the show . |
| 3 | Disillusioned with the cottage and its problems , he had boarded up the windows and returned to Toronto , meaning eventually to come back and make a final decision about his ill-advised purchase . |
| 4 | ‘ When Masklin comes back , he 's going to have somewhere to come back to . ’ |
| 5 | Whether he is sober enough to go back and fetch his dilapidated car , or should soldier on , is the question here , or at any rate part of it . |
| 6 | We then elected to stay on and opened up those two houses ( Bombay Burma ) for thirty officers who had been turned out of hospital from the fighting lower down , and Pop opened up St Michael 's school for about eighty soldiers until they were fit enough to go back to duty . |
| 7 | The baby was strong enough to go back to Riverstown with a monthly nurse after six weeks and he was duly baptized a Protestant in the Church of Ireland in Naas . |
| 8 | ‘ Now they are working hard to get me fit enough to go back on the list — and they 're the only ones giving me hope , ’ says Anthony . |
| 9 | Shop manager , Jim Willcock 's been allowed home from hospital , but he 's not well enough to go back to the co-op in Cam . |
| 10 | Graham Townsend finally felt well enough to go back to work this week . |
| 11 | oh about six weeks I think he was on er and then he decided he was well enough to go back to his |
| 12 | When they broke for lunch she left the stage very quickly , anxious only to go back to her room . |
| 13 | Better to stroll back the way she had come , then perhaps she would cross over the road and look in the souvenir shop . |
| 14 | It is n't good enough to fall back on a somewhat arbitrary list of subjects without specific aims . |
| 15 | She had only to sit back with perfect composure — something at which she was adept — and wait for him to find his way through the necessary preliminaries to the real business of this meeting . |
| 16 | Only when Marcella had relaxed sufficiently to sit back in her chair and release her tight hold on the dog did he risk intervention : ‘ We came to talk about the Garlands . ’ |
| 17 | Mr Crangle would spend hours rearranging them into their proper sections only to come back the next day and find them all mixed up again . |
| 18 | Royal Gait 's Flat career was then plagued with leg trouble and he was eventually sent to stud only to come back into training three years later . |
| 19 | One of his greatest knocks was the 143 at Port-of-Spain in 1968 — this after he had reached breaking-point in 1966 , only to come back with century after century in the 1967 Tests — but he still found touring the Caribbean a fairly distasteful affair , as revealed in his letter to his wife : ‘ We 're being taken for the biggest ride … the umpiring , the crowd and Charlie … it is downright cheating … |
| 20 | He would n't be stupid enough to come back . ’ |
| 21 | It must have amused that bastard greatly to write back saying you were betrothed . |
| 22 | We have only to look back to the debates about language across the curriculum to remember the puerile arguments over whose responsibility it was to teach language skills . |
| 23 | You have only to look back a generation . ’ |
| 24 | Dot stayed just long enough to smile back . |
| 25 | He reached in with both hands , only to shrink back in horror when he encountered something cold and clammy beneath his hand . |
| 26 | I was ashamed , though not ashamed enough to walk back . |
| 27 | Currency markets followed the trend , with the dollar opening sharply higher , only to drift back during the afternoon and close just under half a pfennig up at Dm1.6370 . |
| 28 | After a week together , Jakki flew back to Britain in floods of tears , only to fly back to the States again three days later to interview Madonna . |
| 29 | I mean , it 's not enough to fight back really , twelve . ’ |
| 30 | Dublin bottled it once , but now he is tough enough to fight back |