Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So do n't come back at me with any crap about my specific orders . |
| 2 | Zimberalda … you 've come back to me at last ! ’ she snorts , wiping the tears from her eyes . |
| 3 | But at the moment he 's well he 's not come back to us with any answer from our offer at all so we 're we 're presuming that means no so we thought we 'd better start looking . |
| 4 | Bitterly aware of a deep tide of crimson flooding over her face and body , she could only glare back at him with deep loathing . |
| 5 | I needed more er information on both of those persons , David and Lawrence er and I asked Inspector er to make enquiries regarding those persons and to come back to me with that information . |
| 6 | I suggest that the figures you 've got before you are not terribly , terribly useful , and that you do invite domiciliary health to come back to you for three months to talk to you about their work in terms of the visits , the visits that they do . |
| 7 | And it crashed back into me at high speed . |
| 8 | Mum came back with lots of interesting parcels last night . |
| 9 | The scene came back to him with immediate clarity of detail . |
| 10 | The dream came back to her in all its horrible force and the tears re-emerged . |
| 11 | But if the line manager if in theory the line manager is taking feedback from them on immediately after the course and then going back to them after three months or six months . |
| 12 | When I was in Jordan in nineteen sixty five studying Arabic , I helped the Save The Children Fund operation there for a few months and this was undoubtedly one of the most enjoyable and interesting short periods of my life and I look back on it with great warmth and affection and as your Royal Highness knows , it happens also that many , many years ago before you were our president , my father occupied your office and I therefore come to this meeting today with some knowledge of the fund 's activities and with great admiration and respect for all the that the fund has achieved . |
| 13 | And then you look back at it in 1992 and there it is . |
| 14 | ‘ But I bring that up because you were asking about how you get back into it after that length of time . |
| 15 | We shall be analyzing that and I shall be reporting back to you in due course . |
| 16 | I was seconded to MI5 to report back to them on this one . |
| 17 | She gazed back at him in thoughtful silence for a moment , and shook her head doubtfully . |
| 18 | She gazed back at him in wide-eyed horror . |
| 19 | They only gazed back at us with eerie little smiles . |
| 20 | Though he did not reject the methodology and interests of the ‘ new philosophy ’ , nor attempt to go back beyond it to some earlier view , he thought that , in allowing too much to materialism , philosophy had taken a wrong turn . |
| 21 | It is , I am told , German settlers in County Wexford who are responsible for the Irish Brie called St Edi now being peddled in this country ; the assault of its ammoniac smell brought back to me with terrible force a twenty-two-year-old memory of the Camembert of war-time Egypt which , I now realize , could have been none other than the handiwork of a German fifth column active in Alexandria . ) |
| 22 | Paddy was digging the rubbish pit , but sand kept blowing back into it like teeming insects . |
| 23 | He stared at the rows of glass jars below the books on the walls — and saw an eye staring back at him from one of them , and what could have been a human foetus in another . |
| 24 | So coming back to me on that . |
| 25 | Chairman if it 's possible for the , for the pelican crossing to be , to be moved from one place can we ask Mr if it 's going to help the local neighbourhood in any way , we ask Mr if that is done yesterday rather than a review and then coming back to us in due course , let's get on with it if it can be done . |
| 26 | and then is she coming back to you at all ? |
| 27 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 28 | She put her glasses back on and the lashes , horrifically magnified through the lenses , curled back at her like gigantic spiders ' legs . |
| 29 | She stared at the doll which Nanny had put on the shelf , and the doll stared back at her with cold blue eyes . |
| 30 | Green eyes stared back at her from beneath dark slanting brows but with her short hair that accentuated her elfin face she somehow felt the swimsuit only made her slight figure look even more boyish . |