Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not laugh back . |
| 2 | ‘ They told me that as long as I did not rush back too quickly , I should have another four or five years . |
| 3 | Mr Pozsgay did not rush back . |
| 4 | Far from wanting students to challenge and think about the important issues that affect patients and the community , the course tutors simply seemed to want compliant students who would not answer back . |
| 5 | They 'll not answer back . |
| 6 | One system uses a peristaltic pump which , although very accurate , can not withstand back pressure . |
| 7 | If his education were below that of his audience he could not fall back on the validity of the Sacraments he administered for support . |
| 8 | However , we can not fall back on an ‘ outer estate ’ — ‘ inner-city ’ dichotomy here . |
| 9 | The one behind her did not fall back , or pass her . |
| 10 | They are part of the endeavour to create the balance between ‘ financial strength and creative vitality ’ which Ms Rebuck described as the challenge facing Random House — a ‘ pure ’ trade publisher , which can not fall back on income from professional or reference publishing — when she first took over from Anthony Cheetham 18 months ago . |
| 11 | I 'll be very , very brief erm we can not fall back the control of the country which even the highest rate of recycling that a number of them have already achieved the Government recycling target so now you 've aimed er , I think it 's something rich it more or less stands for er , I would see the role of the County is essentially is co-ordination between the various waste collection authorities through to the greater of the extense of |
| 12 | But if we lost in 1992 — as we certainly lost in 1987 — because prosperous voters feared that we would reduce their disposable income , we will not win back those middle income families by pretending that we have abandoned the very purpose of our creation and our existence . |
| 13 | He completed a three-match ban last weekend but could not win back his place for the Coca-Cola Cup against Crewe . |
| 14 | Each enemy hit by a net can not attack back that turn assuming he has not already done so . |
| 15 | Even a conservative restoration in the Soviet Union would not bring back communist rule to these countries , they believe . |
| 16 | He could not bring back any coherent dream from out of the hours which followed . |
| 17 | ‘ No stock-taking ’ policies are adopted partly because of staffing shortages , but also on the premise that stock-taking is a waste of time because it does not bring back the missing books , and any item which is really important will be requested on reservation ( though a central reservation system , if employed , may mean that missing titles go unnoticed ) . |
| 18 | For Christine , a nursery school teacher living near Manchester , now that most the ‘ teething troubles ’ with Anna are over , there is only one sadness : that she did not bring back a second child . |
| 19 | The first- and second-person pronouns are typical examples in that they do not refer back to a nominal expression in the text but to the speaker and hearer ( or writer and reader ) respectively . |
| 20 | His father told him he had never come closer to disobeying an order in his life , but he was finally persuaded to do so because it was pointed out to him that if the British Army did not send back the Cossacks , the Soviets would not send back British POWs . |
| 21 | His father told him he had never come closer to disobeying an order in his life , but he was finally persuaded to do so because it was pointed out to him that if the British Army did not send back the Cossacks , the Soviets would not send back British POWs . |
| 22 | A cap on interest charged on misdeclarations , so that assessments of interest will not date back more than three years . |
| 23 | [ Guevara then went on to mention ] some things he had in mind : — ( 1 ) That they could not give back the expropriated properties … but they could pay for them in trade . |
| 24 | Why should the House take seriously any patients charter that does not give back to those patients the right to choose their hospital — a right that they had until the Government took it away ? |
| 25 | Do not look back . |
| 26 | He did not look back . |
| 27 | and I did not look back ? |
| 28 | It is a complacent researcher indeed who does not look back on the research findings and wish that some things had been done better . |
| 29 | This time , she did not look back . |
| 30 | Behind him Dean said , ‘ He 's going to sledge , ’ but Jasper did not look back . |