Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [v-ing] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked up as Corbett entered , smiled and half rose before slumping back into the seat again as if he really could not be bothered . |
| 2 | Both are under the greatest attack from a government committed to drawing back from the welfare state . |
| 3 | Some German women are up in arms , No thank you , they say to going back to the role of mothers and home builders . |
| 4 | This tension is resolved by coming back from the brink of the recognition of the politics of divide and rule in society in general and instead binding the issue to the micro-politics of individualised self-interest . |
| 5 | When you keep getting hit on the nose you do n't feel like getting back into the ring . ’ |
| 6 | It was peaceful with the plop-of the gas fire and the dark sky outside through the window , for like many old people Doris did not draw her curtains till late and Linda did not feel like going back to the bustle of tea-time , but she could n't keep them waiting for their tea . |
| 7 | So it 's use the red obviously the title and the red 's for your introduction to say what you 're going to say then say it by using your greens and then say what you 've said by going back to the red and coming back to your objective . |
| 8 | Isabel gave the grey a last pat and made sure the door was securely closed before speeding back through the rain to her own shelter . |
| 9 | This takes a full litre of water — enough for one-and-a-half hours of constant steam ironing without going back to the tap . |
| 10 | The waterfall , however , is a hundred yards downriver and is best reached by walking back along the road for fifty yards to the end of a wall , where a step down in the undergrowth discloses a good path high on the river bank above a deep gorge , the waterfall soon being seen through a canopy of foliage . |
| 11 | Robertson did not hesitate , and dived overboard and swam out to the dinghy which he succeeded in getting back to the fishing boat for the crew to get off . |
| 12 | But Souness must sell before delving back into the transfer market to continue his rebuilding programme and will have to accept cut-price offers for the big trio . |
| 13 | Organic farmers believe in putting back into the land what they take out , not starving it of nutrients and piling on the fertilisers . |
| 14 | It is introduced by looking back at the events which took place at Navron through the eyes of a ‘ trespasser in time ’ observing the memories that still haunt the place after Dona and the others have been and gone . |
| 15 | She is advised to stay there for five days but insists on going back with the band . |
| 16 | At least one citizen died through coming back into the town after a great thickness of ash had accumulated , and presumably during a lull in the eruption , either to loot or to rescue his own little hoard of gold . |
| 17 | In the morning , though our route lay the other way , I insisted on going back to the old station for one more look . |
| 18 | He was too depressed even to care about travelling back on the tube with his right wrist in a sling during a period which the Tooting Guardian had described as a peak time for knife attacks . |
| 19 | The most important thing to emphasise is that , regardless of the attitude of the glider , if it is not responding to moving back on the stick or if the stick is hitting the back stop , a forward movement must be made to allow the glider to unstall . |
| 20 | Start by thinking back over the experience and selecting a part of it ( a 15 minute period or so ) which was significant or important to you . |
| 21 | I understand that it is possible , even at this late stage , that the review itself could be overturned by the refusal of France to agree the new allocation of seats and we 've already had an exchange on that , Mr Deputy Speaker , which indicates that whatever we decide today might actually be overthrown and overturned completely by the inability of the French to ratify their part of the arrangement , er the minister referred to it as a massive inconvenience , I suggest that if we have to resort to going back to the old boundaries to fight these elections and indeed the problems that that will cause for the selection of candidates as well , that that will be one of the greatest understatements that even this house has heard . |
| 22 | The paper concludes with one view of how a workable integration practice might be achieved by going back to the drawing-board and examining the aims and objectives of educational integration . |
| 23 | This can be checked by looking back through the arguments . |
| 24 | But they remained Germans , always dreaming of going back to the Fatherland one day . ’ |
| 25 | Yet as well as the returns , Mal also delights in giving back to the sport that he loves . |
| 26 | If any walls appear to lean , check by going back to the nearest upper window and drop a plumb line down . |