Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | One only has to see Back to the Future to realize what problems could arise . |
| 3 | Eighteen months later , in March 1944 , at a second Chinese-sponsored conference at Liuchow , Ho had not only managed to slip back under the nationalist umbrella of the Dong Minh Hoi but , as one of its representatives , was named as a member of a Provisional Government which was expecting to enter Vietnam in the wake of the ‘ liberating ’ Chinese armies . |
| 4 | Finally he lay down in the snow and determined to die , for his stamina had failed him and he had not found the Dwarves ; and he did not want to go back to the life of killing he had led . |
| 5 | I do not want to go back to the foreign environment of Tbilisi , ’ he said . |
| 6 | We do not want to creep back to the economy that we had when Labour ran the country . |
| 7 | After losing 83–6 to Blaydon and 42–3 to Horden in recent weeks , the injuries are not helping to get back on the rails in time for their final two league matches this month against Sunderland and Mowden Park . |
| 8 | Both were successful in their task , Phyllisia no longer has to go back to the West Indies and Celie was reunited with all her family . |
| 9 | ‘ Now I can not wait to get back into the team . |
| 10 | ‘ I have had the equivalent of a pre-season training session at Lilleshall and I can not wait to get back into the side . ’ |
| 11 | Now that the party can no longer call on state finances , it will have to streamline its bureaucracy , and has already decided to hand back to the nation all superfluous assets , including the party 's holiday homes , hotels … and its headquarters . |
| 12 | He left the convent with Amsterdam , not turning to look back at the ancient pile . |
| 13 | I mean we 're not going to go back to the days of the commonwealth and relying on you know , lamb from New Zealand all the time . |
| 14 | And I have n't come across any notes from me to me , so obviously I 'm not going to go back into the past and leave anything for me to discover in the future , which is the present . |
| 15 | The inexperienced pilots often try to soar in unusable lift , and they concentrate so hard that they do n't recognise that they are drifting away and are not going to get back to the field . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I hope to God , he thought , Durkin does not try to get back before the storm breaks . |
| 18 | But he can not afford to sit back on the basis that Everton are too big a club to go down . |
| 19 | She just wanted to sink back into the dream and give in to the lovely floating sensation . |
| 20 | Terry did n't want any truck with service medicos , he just wanted to get back to the States and see Madeleine , Sulome and Gabrielle . |
| 21 | And I just need to come back to the point that my client certainly does n't support either of them . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The occasional dinner party was a social duty ; they could hardly wait to get back to the seclusion of their own small house . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been round the instrument circuit from A to Z , Alembic to Zon , and I always seem to come back to the P-bass , always . |
| 26 | oh yeah they usually manage to come back in the end |
| 27 | Well we 're still waiting to go back to the Manor Ground and catch up with Nick Harris . |
| 28 | She turned round and quickly began to walk back towards the door . |
| 29 | It produces the archetypal image of the Christian , afraid of life , always trying to climb back into the Garden of Eden , by creating a world of fantasy if necessary to inhabit at the expense of living in the real world . |
| 30 | How she had ever managed to get back to the Shelbourne , she did n't know . |