Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] back [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope he will eventually dip back into that area . |
| 2 | She had only to sit back with perfect composure — something at which she was adept — and wait for him to find his way through the necessary preliminaries to the real business of this meeting . |
| 3 | Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe . |
| 4 | So you know it , it , it 's just , they will actually , the interesting bit is that they 'll only move back to that equilibrium point as you fall down towards them . |
| 5 | A Formalist/Prague School approach thus necessarily projects back onto earlier literature the aesthetic standards peculiar to the modern age . |
| 6 | Even if the awaited rain fell at the poem 's end , it would only lead back to that beginning , ‘ breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land , ’ with all its attendant suffering . |
| 7 | Guilt , or constantly thinking back to past errors , only has any value if you are able to learn from it and to make a firm decision to avoid those errors in the future . |
| 8 | But US companies only ploughed back into new investment a sum equal to their profits . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're not to go back to that place any more ! |
| 10 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 11 | A field where the sign no longer refers back to real objects or persons but instead constructs what is to be perceived within the system of signification . |
| 12 | Yes well I think to answer bo both of yo your concerns , first of all we have to accept that the Planning Committee has , actually has power to make its decisions not to come back to this Council so I 'm afraid it is a decision of the Planning Committee . |
| 13 | The situation was desperate : Holmes was away on a case , and not expected back for some time . |
| 14 | I 've I 've just come back on that D two stop three . |
| 15 | And Rodger has only just come back from three weeks ' rehabilitation at Lilleshall . |
| 16 | modern rhythmic gymnastics was created by the Russians … our top girls have just come back from special coaching over there … it showed in the championships … the best yet and the the closest with Alitia Sands of Coventry winning by point nort five of a point |
| 17 | Capercaillie in Scotland have already come back from near extinction once . |
| 18 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 19 | Why should the House take seriously any patients charter that does not give back to those patients the right to choose their hospital — a right that they had until the Government took it away ? |
| 20 | Ask them to be as specific as possible , — and not hold back on any areas , even if they seem embarrassing . |
| 21 | Fabia gathered that he approved of her walking shoes , but , even so , it did not stop him from warning , somewhat severely , I 'm not turning back in five minutes . ’ |
| 22 | The general message was not to look back at past crimes but forward to a more worthwhile place in society . |
| 23 | Imagine you 're at home and you 're not going back to that madhouse . |
| 24 | ‘ No , I 'm not going back to that house . ’ |
| 25 | I 'm just going back along this run for Nildro-hain . |
| 26 | So just going back to these 'ates , sulphate has got sulphur and oxygen in it , a carbonate has got what ? |
| 27 | By the way , just getting back to these interventions . |
| 28 | And when that girl becomes vegetarian mix about and the other one she 's vegetarian still and she said she 's not coming back in this house . |
| 29 | On 17 July 1429 , less than ten weeks after relieving Orleans , and having in the meanwhile brought back to French rule a number of towns , including Troyes where the fateful treaty had been sealed in 1420 , Joan stood in the cathedral at Reims watching the dauphin as he underwent the rite of coronation , the rite by which his predecessors had become full kings of France . |
| 30 | It is a mark of the extraordinary faithfulness of St. Mark to the historical situation of the life of Jesus that he does not read back into those days the experience of the Spirit to which he and his friends were used in the post-resurrection era . |