Example sentences of "[vb past] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | checked with his radio , he goes alright then phoned back to the police station on his radio , he said it 's not stolen the owner 's now here he said , can you please get it moved ? |
| 2 | The clones were multiplied in the glasshouse and then transplanted back into patches of the field dominated by the four grass species . |
| 3 | The package to be updated is read from LIFESPAN , updated to reference the modules to be incorporated in the baseline , and then entered back into LIFESPAN . |
| 4 | Bull O'Malley gaped back at him as Father Devlin sat in silence staring at the fire . |
| 5 | But he above is a representative of the general tone of the interview which constantly referred back to the suspiciously ‘ instant ’ political aspects of the band . |
| 6 | Speaking at the 1989 BEMAS Annual Conference , Martin Davies , Director of NCC , referred back to the early gloom and outrage , but then went on to say : ‘ What is remarkable is how little dissent and how little opposition there is now the overwhelming majority have accepted the idea of a National Curriculum . ’ |
| 7 | The Governors referred back to Hamilton the matter of terms and of advertisements giving notice of the change , and with that was concluded the business of the last quarter of quartered years at the School . |
| 8 | The Horror Film Specialist was surrounded by an admiring coterie of lesser horror film specialists and most of their conversation referred back to previous triumphs . |
| 9 | Adjusters reports should be carefully checked and any omissions or queries referred back to the Adjuster . |
| 10 | The European Council reaffirmed its willingness to help the Soviet Union but referred back to the Commission the task of submitting before the next Council meeting proposals for decisions to be taken , and also asked it to draw up a plan for a major commercial , scientific and technical co-operation agreement with the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | UNCED itself , however , was launched as a result of a UN General Assembly resolution passed in December 1989 [ see p. 37433 ] , which referred back to the 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development chaired by the then Norwegian Prime Minister , Gro Harlem Brundtland [ see pp. 35227-29 ] . |
| 12 | This in turn referred back to the 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development , commonly known as the Brundtland Commission after its chair , the then Norwegian Prime Minister , Mrs Gro Harlem Brundtland . |
| 13 | when he 's been there a little while perhaps he can come with all the authority of a Euro MP and tell us the answer to his own question er , the honourable member for Ashfield er referred back to the positioning of the European parliament er where it should meet , there are three sites . |
| 14 | One aim is to make the familiar look unfamiliar and he says it was only when he referred back to his photographs after completing many of his drawings that he realised what he had missed . |
| 15 | They may be offered counselling , visited by a health visitor or referred back to their GP if the problem is medical . |
| 16 | They may be offered counselling , visited by a health visitor or referred back to their GP if the problem is medical . |
| 17 | shrivelled back to sharps |
| 18 | Poor overweight Peter Horbury , the new Lord Woodleigh began to heave himself from his deckchair and then sank back into it . |
| 19 | Then they sank back into armchairs , thanking the Lord that never again in their lives would they move house . |
| 20 | Set between the shuttered window of the best room and the lower edge of the yard wall , the chamber sank back into the building like a huge stone tunnel . |
| 21 | The mood immediately sank back into deep depression , especially in the light of the Soviet summer offensive , which had pushed as far as the Vistula , and , in August , the accelerating advance of the western allies through France . |
| 22 | TEXAN oil and gas exploration minnow Aviva Petroleum sank back into the red last year with an $8.7m loss , against 1990 's $537,000 profit , on revenue down from $12.2m to $9.3m . |
| 23 | He sank back into his chair as Pyke and I walked away from the table , and tossed the whisky down his throat . |
| 24 | Jean-Paul shrugged , and sank back into his chair . |
| 25 | As Tamar sank back into her seat , Tempy took out a bottle of smelling salts and held them under her nose . |
| 26 | She sank back into her chair , relieved . |
| 27 | He woke her gently , and as the mists sank back into the river in the sunlight , they made love . |
| 28 | He sank back into his chair . |
| 29 | The old man sank back into the chair , a look of satisfaction on his face . |
| 30 | From having been at the very centre of public affairs , the Frost family sank back into almost impenetrable obscurity . |