Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main thing is I do n't want to go back into the private sector unless I absolutely have to . |
| 2 | I do not want to go back to the foreign environment of Tbilisi , ’ he said . |
| 3 | The yanks were itching to see the pop conquerors of late '89 , but a series of postponed tours and a lack of vinyl has seriously affected the Roses ' US invasion potential — not that they care , preferring to slip back into the easy pace of their pre-fuss lifestyle . |
| 4 | The yanks were itching to see the pop conquerors of late '89 , but a series of postponed tours and a lack of vinyl has seriously affected the Roses ' US invasion potential — not that they care , preferring to slip back into the easy pace of their pre-fuss lifestyle . |
| 5 | the reader has to go back to the previous stretch of discourse to establish what This refers to . |
| 6 | ‘ You wo n't need to go back into the Little Vestry . |
| 7 | But Tory schools minister Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington hit back : ‘ No one wants to go back to the old days of councillors running hospitals , of Nupe deciding whether or not your operations should be carried out . ’ |
| 8 | If the patient can not use the lexical procedure to read , say , pint , and so has to fall back upon the non-lexical procedure , a reading error will result : pint will be read with a short i ( as in mint ) . |
| 9 | I think , John , I want to come back to the basic one , and that is , as a customer , if you 're handed what you think is an extended warranty to cover you for all sorts of things erm then you 're very disappointed if you find that most of the things that are going to go wrong with your car are excluded . |
| 10 | ‘ Although Tara never is really dark , ’ said Caspar as they stopped to look back at the great shining edifice outlined against the sky . |
| 11 | ‘ Yup , ’ she 'd said , shifting down to fourth as a car she 'd been waiting to pass pulled back into the slow lane . |
| 12 | STUART RIPLEY could hardly wait to get back on the Ayresome Park pitch but , once there , was glad to get off again , writes David Alexander . |
| 13 | ‘ Terry and I tried to cut back on the silly stories by not doing anything at all , but then they attacked the fact that we were n't doing anything , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Then he tried smiling back at the serious-faced child , for this must surely be a tease . |
| 15 | The lesson , in my view is clear : neither to stand still and simply change leader ; nor , certainly , to go lurching back to the early 1980s , but to continue and intensify the process of change . |
| 16 | And , as one later moved into other divisions to be taught by other people one always seemed to come back to the Roman Conquest of Britain , which I found particularly boring , and learnt nothing . |
| 17 | As the sun rose higher , shortening the shadows and drawing the dew from the grass , most of the rabbits came wandering back to the sun-flecked shade among the cow-parsley along the edge of the ditch . |
| 18 | All fords of the Esk , including Kirkandrews , were guarded on the English side by Graham peel-towers ; and though these would not be strong enough to hold up three thousand from crossing for long they could send warning back to the English authorities if so inclined . |
| 19 | He liked his porter , but if he 'd gone back to the stable … |
| 20 | Fokker is negotiating with Lockheed to assemble aircraft in America : this would bring Lockheed back into the commercial business , which it quit in 1981 after losing its shirt with the TriStar . |
| 21 | Burton said that he had promised to go back to the Old Vic for £45 a week to do Hamlet , and he was sticking to it . |
| 22 | Another type of chart helps parents begin to stand back from the emotional reactions they have and see what is happening with their child . |
| 23 | He left the convent with Amsterdam , not turning to look back at the ancient pile . |
| 24 | The rest of the 50 minutes should be used to look back on the previous lectures and notes on the same topic . |
| 25 | Fei Yen reined in her horse and turned to look back down the steep slope beneath the beacon . |
| 26 | Despite this early re-appraisal only in 1971 did the responsibility for the care of the mentally handicapped move back to the local authorities , where it now remains . |
| 27 | I have the impression that consumers would quite like to get back to the good old days when they used to spend money occasionally , ’ concluded Ainslie Tim . |
| 28 | Deborah turned away from the signpost and began wading back through the deep undergrowth to the main path , intending to break into a run when she reached it ; but just as she turned off she heard a faint , distant , reedy cry , which stopped her in her tracks . |
| 29 | Colour began to come back into the young woman 's cheeks . |
| 30 | In splinters of thought , unconnectedly , I began to look back over the past three weeks . |