Example sentences of "and [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he went to the john for twenty minutes and squelched back clicking and ticking like a geiger counter . |
| 2 | Caterina pulled her head away , looked at her sister in disbelief , and whispered back , ‘ That 's where your pipi comes out . ’ |
| 3 | They ate a few grains , ignored the rest , and cruised back into their hiding places again . |
| 4 | He drove on through and then turned around in a gateway and cruised back more slowly . |
| 5 | This provides medical , laboratory , and nursing back up for the village outreach programme and deals with health problems of local townspeople . |
| 6 | The curtains were still pulled and he placed one of the packages of groceries on the table , holding the other to his side as he went across the room and whipped back the heavy green curtains . |
| 7 | It works with standard audio input devices like microphones , disks and cassette tapes , and plays back on a variety of devices . |
| 8 | Look out for products such as Visio , a drop and drag drawing package which utilises job-specific stencils ; WinDesk , a customisable desktop for Windows ; ProtoView , a screen management facility for Windows ; Star Trek the Screensaver , a screensaver program for Star Trek fanatics ; Office Accelerator , a program to run your office from within your favourite word-processor ; Color Tools , a multimedia graphics solution ; Labtech Vision , a program that produces dynamic graphics that automatically update in real time , and CameraMan , which records and plays back Windows routines . |
| 9 | Now he 's slimmed down and laid back . |
| 10 | David Lynch follows BLUE VELVET with a controversial winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes , a scarifying mix of extreme violence , mordant wit and laid back , absurdist humour in which road movie meets chase thriller and sweaty erotic romance in a joky narrative that playfully confounds audience expectations and genre conventions . |
| 11 | Hayman dropped the receiver back into its cradle and lolled back in his chair , sighing to himself . |
| 12 | She blushed faintly and gazed back . |
| 13 | She twisted and gazed back to where the Black Cuillins arced away in ridge after ridge of jagged stone , rearing up into a flawless sky . |
| 14 | A delicately ludicrous picture comes into Howard 's mind of an enthusiastic little hiker with a rucksack on his back , trying to walk up the side of the Matterhorn , and tumbling back with an astonished look on his face . |
| 15 | Owen drew breath and plunged back to the little group , still hemmed into a few yards of the pathway . |
| 16 | But out of sight in the galley , she gripped the rail in front of the cooker to steady herself and choked back tears of rage and frustration . |
| 17 | His last customer took the smile with him as he unwillingly left the warm room and limped back with chattering teeth to the unwelcoming flat at the top of the stone stairs . |
| 18 | They include Azabu Group , which plans to sell 60 properties worth around ¥200 billion by the end of June ; Itoman , a trading company which hopes to sell and lease back its Osaka headquarters for ¥80 billion as a first step towards paying off its debt of ¥1.3 trillion , much of it owed to Sumitomo Bank ; and MDI , which wants to unload ¥50 billion out of ¥150 billion worth of residential property that it holds for development . |
| 19 | Kontrax also aims to sell and lease back its main office building in Budapest which it values at $13m . |
| 20 | I 'm crying a bit as I try and stick the pieces together , but I ca n't do it so I just leave them on the floor and sit back in the chair . |
| 21 | When they discover that I 'm not a woman , they quickly lose interest and sit back down . |
| 22 | Should we then insist that it is all SEGLAB 's fault and sit back waiting for it to improve ? |
| 23 | What I was if any other matter comes into light before it comes in we do n't do anything about it and that 's why I would oppose that because of this because one it 's not necessary to move something that we would look at it and sit back and after the inspector reports . |
| 24 | ‘ That should give Mait pause for thought , ’ he muttered , straightening and stepping back into the cemetery to retrieve his umbrella . |
| 25 | There was a quick exchange of glances , then the men did as she said , unbinding the woman and stepping back , as if afraid of the consequences . |
| 26 | ‘ I hope you find peace , ’ was all the grey man said , before releasing his grip and stepping back . |
| 27 | ‘ I did n't lie to you , ’ he repeated tightly , withdrawing his arm from around her waist and stepping back . |
| 28 | ‘ There must be a village somewhere , ’ she insisted , tying a final knot and stepping back . |
| 29 | In alarm she glanced back at Samson and saw him hit out wildly , lose his balance and crash back , knocking down the men behind like a row of ninepins . |
| 30 | The data can then be analysed or altered and placed back in the database . |