Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person ‘ goosed ’ then chases round and tries to catch the runner before he or she gets back to the space where the goosed person was sitting . |
| 2 | It was n't until some years later that I came back to the question of the receptors and showed that the most dramatic effects involved the NMDA glutamate receptor I mentioned in the last chapter ( but wo n't discuss further here ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Killer blah , ’ he said in a strange tone of voice that I took to be a warning so I went back under the chair . |
| 4 | By early evening , I was just too bored to stick the place any longer so I went back to the hotel . |
| 5 | Their life was already hard enough , so I went back to the wild fruit in the woods . |
| 6 | They were still uncomfortable , so I went back into the optician . |
| 7 | I du n no what to do , so I go back to the caff and have a look in the window . |
| 8 | They are pulled away impatiently by Bill , so I sit back on the side lines . |
| 9 | I looked round very carefully but could see nothing , so I turned back on the tail of the nearest Hun , who was chasing some Hurricanes in front of him . |
| 10 | She hesitated over several , dark , rather unobtrusive garments in one corner , thinking that they looked harmless until two creeping , fog-like hands reached for her and an evil chuckle filled the room , so that she shot back to the room 's centre out of their reach . |
| 11 | She was all but out of the door on her way to Oxford Street when , incredibly , she found herself shaking , so much so that she went back into the tiny bedroom and lay down . |
| 12 | ‘ Dammit to hell , ’ he cursed , letting her go abruptly so that she fell back on the bed in an untidy heap . |
| 13 | She could feel the moment when he decided to thrust her away from him , abruptly stepping back , the shock of their coming apart striking as swift as a blow , stunning her , so that she fell back against the parapet , her lips swollen by the passion of his taking , a soft anguished breath escaping from between them . |
| 14 | Her legs took the decision from her , buckling so quickly that she stumbled back to the bed . |
| 15 | She tried reading him Wordsworth and Tennyson and Browning but he would sigh and interrupt her when she did , so she went back to the lighter Kipling poems and he would lie and grin happily to himself and make her read his favourite passages over and over again . |
| 16 | There was no arguing with him , and it was very pleasant to have someone caring , so she sat back in the seat without further protest . |
| 17 | Yeah , that 's the whole thing , we 've gathered all the information now , we may 've been there an hour , hour an a half , maybe two hours depending upon the appointment so you go back to the office and work on a plan of attack . |
| 18 | Present your recommendations to him and he 'll say well yeah I 'd like to think about it and you go off then oh fair enough then so you go back to the branch and the second becomes a third |
| 19 | You then rotate the eyepiece so you get back to the condition that you had before . |
| 20 | ‘ Adam never stood a chance , did he , once you came back on the scene ? |
| 21 | The changes only take effect once you move back into the word processor . |
| 22 | Suddenly rain poured down , and although we hurried back to the house , we were quite wet when we arrived in the hall . |
| 23 | And it 's also important that we look back over the last ten years to how the N H S has been fundamentally changed as a consequence of Tory government policy towards it . |
| 24 | Well she 's got yes she got a she she sleeps in a in a special place but what she does is she 's got a rug erm we 've got a a rug in front of the fire here that we bought back from the States , and everything she finds that she likes she brings into the lounge and puts on the rug . |
| 25 | That 's right , , it 's a , it 's a , so my mother and I said we 're going back to that hotel , you know , were very , very kind of luxury type , so we went back to the hotel and my brother and I went into the room where we had a television view on the sea , very beautiful . |
| 26 | Do make sure too , especially on some of the brushes that have washers ( plastic coverings ) , that they go back in the right order and that the screw is done up IN THE CENTRE of the washer . |
| 27 | That they carry back to the crevice |
| 28 | Flowers visited by passerines are twisted such that they face back to the peduncle , on which the perching bird stands : hummingbird flowers differ in being tubular and sticking outwards making them readily accessible to hovering birds . |
| 29 | Some stars will become so small that their gravitational fields will bend light to that point that it comes back toward the star . |
| 30 | Flinging open the door of his office so that it hurtled back against the wall , he did n't even bother to answer . |