Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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31 | She hated having to scan it in reverse rather than just rewind to go back to the same sequence the girl had been watching when she came in but Jezrael had n't thought to check the counter . |
32 | If you do n't do it , it 'll be two possibly threeish because you 're not too sure , you 've got to go back to the second appointment and he might do it but then again he may not . |
33 | And it more or less made it that we 'd got to go back for the ten and thruppence . |
34 | Another type of chart helps parents begin to stand back from the emotional reactions they have and see what is happening with their child . |
35 | He left the convent with Amsterdam , not turning to look back at the ancient pile . |
36 | The rest of the 50 minutes should be used to look back on the previous lectures and notes on the same topic . |
37 | Fei Yen reined in her horse and turned to look back down the steep slope beneath the beacon . |
38 | Scots Wha Hae , which some may claim is another emotional dirge , has tremendous credentials ( tune going back to the 14th century and words by our national bard ) . |
39 | 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 . |
40 | 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 . |
41 | 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 . |
42 | Colour began to come back into the young woman 's cheeks . |
43 | In splinters of thought , unconnectedly , I began to look back over the past three weeks . |
44 | They shuffle out to a soft rhythmic crunching underfoot , reminiscent of how the boots of Napoleon 's legions must have sounded trudging back through the Russian snows . |
45 | Tallis followed glancing back at the huge carvings , their grotesque faces watching her , some compassionately , some with mocking expressions . |
46 | That would be the end of any engagements elsewhere , just when he was beginning to get back on the international circuit . |
47 | She says it 's when they get released back to the wild that it 's best . |
48 | She says it 's when they get released back to the wild that it 's best . |
49 | Unless you take a different view , our own preference would be to pursue the question of a travelling display as actively as we can , recognising , however , that if it does not prove feasible for reasons of finance and other resources to mount such a display in the foreseeable future we may have to fall back on the reduced-size Barrel Vault display . |
50 | Thus , we would have to fall back on the anthropic principle to explain why the electron has the mass and charge that it does . |
51 | WHEN THE Generating Board had tired of its investigations in the Dorset hinterland and its tussles with the Cornish protesters , it decided to fall back on the one site in the West Country where it felt confident it could successfully build the second British Pressurized Water Reactor . |
52 | The privatization bill will probably have to go back to the upper house , whatever happens in the Commons . |
53 | Soon there will be nothing left to know and I shall have to go back to the Annual Assessment . |
54 | ‘ Could n't we have a second chair ? ’ ventured John Gould , inciting the first major row : ‘ We 'll have to re-think the whole thing ’ says James ‘ we 'll have to go back to the very beginning and re-block it ! ’ |
55 | After days of reflection she decided to write back in the same icy terms Philip had used with her . |
56 | ‘ We wanted to play Dublin but all the venues were booked out months ago , so we 'll have to come back in the New Year and do somewhere like the SFX or the Stadium . |
57 | This had several squares of very heavy , dark grey woollen cloth which Mum told me came from her own great grandmother 's cloak , so presumably could well have dated back to the eighteenth century . |
58 | Had it not been for another round of cost cutting , the group would have crept back into the black last year . |
59 | Any sign of browning or other discolouration could be the onset of die-back , and if this is confirmed , you may be able to trim it away , but if it goes back below the node , you will have to prune back to the next growth bud irrespective of its direction . |
60 | ‘ I could try going back to the Steering Committee ’ he said ‘ and simply tell them what 's happened . |