Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the reader has to go back to the previous stretch of discourse to establish what This refers to . |
| 2 | This determines the level of the water in the cistern so it needs to go back to the same notch |
| 3 | But Tory schools minister Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington hit back : ‘ No one wants to go back to the old days of councillors running hospitals , of Nupe deciding whether or not your operations should be carried out . ’ |
| 4 | If the patient can not use the lexical procedure to read , say , pint , and so has to fall back upon the non-lexical procedure , a reading error will result : pint will be read with a short i ( as in mint ) . |
| 5 | In the 5 years with Maxwell junior at the helm , the club has dropped back into the second division and shows debts of up to £4.5 million . |
| 6 | Thank you very much I think er councillor said that in er Tory erm motions goes against er Conservative er national policy but what it does identify is a very worrying sub text to the Tory policies of the moment because w means testing for hou for housing welfare has gone back to the worst aspects of the nineteen thirties politics basically . |
| 7 | Lets look back at the best of the season 's action now … through the eyes of the best players of the season . |
| 8 | Too often the executive forgets to phone back until the next day . |
| 9 | This Autumn Statement and the new economic policy it set down must be judged on whether it gets the country back to work , reduces the dole queues and brings hope back to the British people . |
| 10 | And it 's gone back to the old prices . |