Example sentences of "and [vb base] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When they discover that I 'm not a woman , they quickly lose interest and sit back down . |
| 3 | Should we then insist that it is all SEGLAB 's fault and sit back waiting for it to improve ? |
| 4 | What I was if any other matter comes into light before it comes in we do n't do anything about it and that 's why I would oppose that because of this because one it 's not necessary to move something that we would look at it and sit back and after the inspector reports . |
| 5 | In alarm she glanced back at Samson and saw him hit out wildly , lose his balance and crash back , knocking down the men behind like a row of ninepins . |
| 6 | Not only was she a founder of Playschool , and responsible for commissioning Postman Pat , Bertha the Big Machine and Charlie Chalk for the BBC ; but when Playschool came under threat she formed her own independent production company to make — and sell back to the BBC — a modern replacement for it : the current Playdays ( first known as Playbus ) . |
| 7 | Pit heaps and mean back to backs are as much his ‘ monument ’ as the wondrous , bloated showcase he erected at Barnard Castle . |
| 8 | Return to pan , stir in the Madeira , season and bring back to the boil . |
| 9 | One firm is even arranging for convoys of lorries to travel with the coaches to France and bring back the booty . |
| 10 | Boss Geoff Chapple dipped deep into his own pocket in October to pay Pounds 1,000 and bring back Wye brothers Shane and Lloyd from New Zealand . |
| 11 | In the story , those invited to attend made excuses ; a response which so infuriated the host that he ordered his servant to ‘ Hurry out to the streets and alleys of the town , and bring back the poor , the crippled , the blind , and the lame . … ’ |
| 12 | Mother Francis had never given up hope that Eve would live there one day , with a family maybe , and bring back some happiness to the little house that had known only confusion and tragedy . |
| 13 | On trips into London after we 'd finally moved to Wales , I would raid skips and bring back the booty on the car roof-rack . |
| 14 | WIMBLEDON are set to roll out the red carpet and bring back their original Crazy Gang member Alan Cork . |
| 15 | It would prevent more tragedies like Michael Watson 's and bring back the skill to the game . |
| 16 | And even if it went down , at least it would be a heroic failure — a genuine attempt to break the mould and bring back standards of quality and decency . |
| 17 | As part of a wider plan to restore Naples ' historic centre and bring back into public use an artistic and historical heritage that has been shut up and neglected for too long , the Soprintendenza per i Beni Artistici e Storici in Naples has announced a programme of restoration of twenty-six churches to start on 5 December . |
| 18 | They were going to undo the spells that held together the vortex and bring back Chaos to the world . |
| 19 | His brief was simple : charter a large cargo plane and bring back to Farnborough all the pieces of wreckage that will , in your judgement , need to be examined in detail in connection with this investigation , and do it at the least possible cost to the taxpayer . |
| 20 | The home of the Ba was the body in the tomb , but it was able to go out freely and bring back life to the body and thus preserve the deceased 's identity on earth . |
| 21 | He would go himself and bring back some news before they even knew that he had gone . |
| 22 | Erm members will remember at the last er , personal services committee on the twenty fourth of June er , the option to put forward by the Environment Trust and Widdings er , builders was accepted as the one that er officers could pursue and to actually get some final proposals worked up and bring back to both the neighbourhood committee and this committee . |
| 23 | Then the next morning when he was still sleeping it off , Doris 'd go off to the pub herself and have a few , and bring back a quart of mild , and they 'd get drunk again together . |
| 24 | " Just remember , " he shouted at us , " let me know what 's happening in Torajaland ; do n't let Abu too close to those Toraja ladies ; and bring back my jeep ! " |
| 25 | ‘ We used to go round the farms to collect the harness-work and bring back sets of harness for repair . |
| 26 | Before the First World War , the younger women of the village , of whom my mother was one , used to walk from Mavhinje to Štivan ( San Giovanni ) , near the coast , and bring back pots of water on their heads . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , I want you and Fred to go around to his house right now and bring back whatever he 's got over there . |
| 28 | ‘ You feel , perhaps , that it would be a marvellous thing to go to the Counterweight Continent and bring back a shipload of gold ? ’ |
| 29 | The number of days lost through strikes is lower than at any time since 1979 , and people ought to know that Labour policies would sweep all that away and bring back the sort of industrial anarchy that existed in 1978-79 . |
| 30 | And bring back our trough . |