Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] back [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I peered back ruminatively into the pen . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I came back here to the apartment and Rico 's not home . |
| 3 | I relived the murder as I walked back home through the streets . |
| 4 | I stared back blandly with the same expression that he was trying on me . |
| 5 | I looked back constantly to the morning with huge inward joy ; to Ronnie 's phone call , to the revelation over hurdles . |
| 6 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 7 | I hurried back softly to the basement stairs . |
| 8 | Then a second CIS trainer backed Alexeyev 's version , but on Thursday Russian Olympic chief Vitaly Smirnov disagreed and on Friday Kurlovich himself hit back savagely at the accusation . |
| 9 | He reviewed the authorities on the subject ( which went back almost to the turn of the century ) . |
| 10 | They seem based on what is essentially a largely Viennese-inspired ‘ received tradition ‘ tempo assumptions which go back only to the later 19th century at the earliest . |
| 11 | Mr Owen has prepared a £100,000 plan to make the building , which dates back well into the last century , safe by partial demolition , repairs and site clearance . |
| 12 | As she drove back home through the traffic , memories of her father 's authoritarian presence , vigorously admonishing her for the sinfulness of some childlike request , filled her mind with pain and loathing . |
| 13 | She came back slowly towards the house . |
| 14 | There are even those who look back nostalgically to the days when people might leave school at 11 , when the educated classes were distinct from the uneducated . |
| 15 | She turned back quickly into the house , closed and bolted the door and strode across to the telephone . |
| 16 | And then er that was that till Saturday evening , especially in the winter , then you went back again for the evening rounds . |
| 17 | She looked back briefly at the house behind her , low and grey with its long eighteenth-century windows and its sheltering clumps of trees , then she picked up her skirts and began to run up the slope towards the sea . |
| 18 | She fell back hard against the wall and shut her eyes , her head full of the young man 's odour . |
| 19 | The Kingman model of language was greeted with anger by some teachers who looked back nostalgically to the 1960s , but it paved the way for a more judicious approach to the teaching of English . |
| 20 | He frowned down at her as she lay back self-consciously against the pillows . |
| 21 | But in spite of his words there was a fusliza , ’ Tilda said as we walked back slowly along the path of Robina 's scruffy garden bordered by dark , unclipped shrubs . |
| 22 | If we go back socially to the days of the extended family , women did not have to play that role in those days , a women , a woman 's place was very much in the home , looking after the home and not much else . |
| 23 | If we venture back further to the days of mono LPs and shellac 78-r.p.m. discs , the standard of music-making can be very special indeed and the sound often much better than we could possibly have expected . |
| 24 | They tumbled back together into the lit space at the bottom of the stairs , gasping . |
| 25 | watched her walk back slowly to the quay , |
| 26 | Environmental , turned out immediately that we telephoned them to say there was a flood in on the , and they were ex extremely fast and very efficient , and they came back later in the day when the Highways Authority still had n't erm responded to our calls . |
| 27 | They strolled back home down the tunnelled lane and called in at the Littles ' cottage and the Vicarage on the way . |
| 28 | She took Charlotte companionably by the arm , and they turned back together towards the car park , and the Morris , and home . |
| 29 | They ran back together to the front . |
| 30 | He came back smartly to the office and the desk on which he was leaning . |