Example sentences of "[is] [verb] back [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now at this juncture here you would n't actually say what products you 're gon na do , cos you 're not gon na go back and say well I 'm thinking of er two hundred thousand pounds of convertible term assurance and we 're looking personal pension plan , but you 'll tell the guy you 're gon na go back to the branch , we 've got a variety of different things sir and what I wan na do is to go back to the branch and work on one or two ideas for you and then present them to you at some time in the future . |
| 2 | The governments ' answer , it seems , is to go back to the ERM as it worked for most of the 1980s — a more flexible ERM , in which exchange-rate realignments happened now and then , instead of being resisted at all costs . |
| 3 | Perhaps the other point I can make is to go back to the question of why women tutors and people in the university generally have emphasised harassment of students by academic staff more than they 've emphasised harassment by students of one another , and I think it 's not that it was thought that students did n't commonly make each other uncomfortable , but as an issue of principle in terms of whether it 's appropriate for university or college authorities to intervene in what many people regard as students ' private lives . |
| 4 | The mats are formed by a special cutting and macerating machine which harvests the grass and presses it into a five to ten millimetre layer which is placed back on the stubble . |
| 5 | Shortly after he is flown back to the mainland , to the most south naval base of Rio Grande in Tierra del Fuego . |
| 6 | There are encouraging signs , however , that the TV western is struggling back into the saddle . |
| 7 | A proportion is intercepted by the leaves and stems of plants , and some is evaporated back into the atmosphere . |
| 8 | It is not entirely clear why the end of such features grows for a period and then is recurved back towards the coast . |
| 9 | The tax is claimed back from the Tax Office by either the college or the Association , or both . |
| 10 | Larger gravel is discharged back into the river . |
| 11 | The whale turns broadside so that it is lifted back into the sea . |
| 12 | The stricken David Lawrence is carried back to the dressing-room . |
| 13 | Nahh … what I 'd really like to do is come back as the guy who shot Reagan a few years back , only I would n't miss ! |
| 14 | A price is settled and the fish is pushed back down the stairs , flumpity , flump , bump . |
| 15 | The vehicles are put away again , and the now cold and slightly unappetising evening meal is pushed back into the microwave . |
| 16 | The real test of any training , of course , is how well it is applied back at the workface , and apart from Neale 's role in P-E , only the coming cricket season will show him how effective the Grid can be . |
| 17 | As body weight is transferred back to the centre of the machine , lifting the bike still further , the rider heaves himself forward over the front . |
| 18 | The emergence of the superego vastly extended this trend because it represented a characteristically human — or , we might say , neurotic — tendency : namely , an ability to redirect a drive to the extent that it is turned back against the ego itself ( i.e. , hate of the father becomes hate of oneself for hating him ) . |
| 19 | Freud 's finding was that guilt is , starts off as an aggressive drive in the id that could go anywhere , preferably towards other people , but the superego uses some of this aggression and destructive energy arising in the id and then turns it back against the ego , and uses it to punish the ego , so the aggression , instead of going into someone else or into the outside world , is turned back against the self and to that extent is self-destructive . |
| 20 | Next the first capacitor is connected back to the input so that a fresh sample voltage is taken . |
| 21 | The flow rate is adjustable , and so is the angle at which the water is pumped back into the tank — upward or downward as well as to either side . |
| 22 | Working reflectively , light shown here as transmitted is reflected back through the cell , re-twisted , and seen by the viewer . |
| 23 | If he takes an ( optical ) photograph of the wall he will have a snap of featureless plaster , as the light is reflected back from the surface and not from inside the structure . |
| 24 | It 's part of more than two million pounds seized from international drug traffickers that the Home Office is pouring back into the campaign against drugs . |
| 25 | After doing this for perhaps ten seconds , the fanners beside the entrance stop simultaneously and fresh air is drawn back into the hive . |
| 26 | But gradually the blood is drawn back into the body and the veins harden into rigid struts that will give the wing its strength . |
| 27 | When the kick is completed , the foot is drawn back to the starting position . |
| 28 | The pulp is sold back to the farmers for feeding to their cattle . |
| 29 | Radiation emitted by the electron is transformed back to the laboratory frame , and is concentrated in to a narrow cone around the forward direction ( c ) , generating a ( Doppler ) frequency upshift ( γ ) . |
| 30 | If all is satisfactory the credit card is handed back to the customer with a copy of the sales voucher and a receipted bill . |