Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] back [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the last of the boys arrived I thought that maybe I could just make my way to the back of the queue , or sprint back to the changing room on one pretext or another and conveniently lose my place in the line . |
| 2 | Stay out here or go back into the classroom , she did n't want to be found out there if by any chance Miss Graining the Head came by . |
| 3 | Taxing the benefit , and introducing tighter medical checks will also , says the Government , force many to find jobs or sign back on the dole . |
| 4 | I assure him I will return with a treaty that I can recommend to the House or come back without a treaty . |
| 5 | However , there is an attempt to set up a message desk , where if your phone , at the moment , switchboard will put calls through to you , if you do n't answer by a certain number of rings , it will either divert to another number or come back to the switchboard . |
| 6 | Like the crooks pursued by the hero in Calling Bulldog Drummond ( 1951 ) , for whom ‘ life in peacetime seemed unbearably flat ’ , or the ex-officers who take over their old ship for smuggling runs across the Channel in the Ship that Died of Shame ( 1955 ) , or The League of Gentlemen ( 1960 ) , for whom robbing a bank promises their ‘ finest hour ’ , many filmmakers seemed to feel that there was nothing to do , now the war was over and the hopes of peace had faded , than go back to the site of old glories . |
| 7 | I 'd rather die than go back out the way I was . |
| 8 | The UGT confederation is a socialist union with close historical and organizational ties to the PSOE that go back about a century . |
| 9 | I 'm crying a bit as I try and stick the pieces together , but I ca n't do it so I just leave them on the floor and sit back in the chair . |
| 10 | Return to pan , stir in the Madeira , season and bring back to the boil . |
| 11 | A careful dusting off of the electronics , and a pull off and push back for every ribbon and power connector , restored reliable operation . |
| 12 | Descend and head back into the forest going south-west then south to post 21 . |
| 13 | I take a deep breath and head back into the eye of the storm , careening down side-streets when police barricades and fire hoses block the main avenues . |
| 14 | Outside the venue , the Inspirals climb into their cramped tour van and head back to the hotel exuding quiet satisfaction . |
| 15 | I 've had enough of the lights , so we turn round and head back to the house . |
| 16 | Here they spend the next 5 months until the short rains in November when they gradually form columns and head back to the shortgrass plains . |
| 17 | Kirk elders were instructed to visit offenders and report back to the Session . |
| 18 | An Outreach scheme has been devised which divides the parish into six areas , each manned by teams of church members whose job it is to identify ways in which they can provide help and report back to the church . |
| 19 | The local authority must complete the investigation and report back to the court within eight weeks unless the court directs otherwise . |
| 20 | It will be handed to the working party of East Hampshire Road Safety Council who have to investigate , and report back to the matter to their main committee by April 15th . |
| 21 | The ambitious plans drawn up by Middlesbrough council will be passed to various departments which will work on them and report back in a year 's time . |
| 22 | He had but three vessels left and despite urgent pleas from his men — now demoralized again , fretful once they realized another ship was gone — to abandon the voyage and sail back to the Guadalquivir , he pressed on north-westwards , passing through scenery of a wild grandeur and beauty he had never known before . |
| 23 | They rise and walk back down the valley . |
| 24 | ‘ I shall start the bagpipes here and walk back down the hill towards the woods , playing as I go . ’ |
| 25 | Would n't it be a poor thing to have the man close his shop and walk back for a kind of half-hearted snack . |
| 26 | We stuff the damp ropes into our sacks and walk back to the car , this time on the right path . |
| 27 | The road would be turning east soon , and taking them back to the main road so that they could turn south and walk back to the house . |
| 28 | With any luck I 'd have time to dry my hair and dive back into the satin whatsits before he arrived . |
| 29 | Hold the tape measure loosely round the pulled back curtain and hold back against the hook . |
| 30 | And welcome back to the lunch time phone in , I 'm John Simpson here now for another twenty eight minutes , and if you want to join in the discussion you can ring on Oxford three double one , one double one . |