Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] back on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My weight settled back on the earth and I felt nothing but staggering agony and could n't think connectedly until it abated . |
| 2 | It was better than having your screenplay flopping back on the mat by return of post . |
| 3 | We walked round for a bit then we came back and watched The Bug-Eyed Monster Strikes Back on the television . |
| 4 | The tap is then closed and the stopper placed back on the tube to prevent release or contamination of the air . |
| 5 | The political consequences are first increasing loss of control and crumbling of the party apparatus , next the state 's need to fall back on the army and police to preserve its own existence , public order and , it claims , the chance of imposing painful economic reforms . |
| 6 | Jezrael let her aching body melt back on the mattress . |
| 7 | He washed up and tidied up , and put the baize cover back on the table . |
| 8 | I asked one member of a church planting team to look back on the experience . |
| 9 | Resisting the idea that results should somehow be ‘ doctored ’ to reflect such circumstances , the Group fell back on the suggestion that LEAs or governors might be expected to issue statements that would put the results of particular schools in the right context . |
| 10 | Often , when I was cycling through the camp after coming off duty , I would spy Thursby in the distance beavering along , head down against the gale , full of eagerness to get back on the job and spot any mistakes we had made during his absence . |
| 11 | She let her head fall back on the pillow , her body arching in swift sensuousness , inviting and inciting the continuation of his caresses . |
| 12 | The video looks back on the occupation of Latin America by Europeans and draws attention to the present situation of the millions of people throughout the continent who are suffering poverty and disease . |
| 13 | Her head relaxed back on the pillow . |
| 14 | A former sales manager looking back on the time he had to juggle with the moral and immoral balls of corporate demands said that : |
| 15 | One day , after we had been working together all afternoon without much success , Dana without warning lay back on the bed , his head on the pillow . |
| 16 | Gerry 's champing at the bit to get back on the box |
| 17 | Environmental agency goes back on the shelf |
| 18 | When he took off on his return flight in a small twin-engined plane , one of the engines failed , and the pilot , whether by accident or design I do n't know , did a swift turn and made an emergency landing back on the airfield , missing the Control Tower by about three feet . |
| 19 | In his second feature looking back on the regiment 's finest hours , Richard Barnett talks to the men who were proud to have served with the Glorious Glosters : |
| 20 | There is a moment of confusion while one elder fumbles to put his cakestand of individual cups back on the tier . |
| 21 | Now Matthew from the First Diploma course reports back on the progress of another project . |
| 22 | The glider dived almost vertically and I was just in time to pull back on the stick so that we hit the ground in a level attitude without any damage . |
| 23 | Skipper Chris Dickson feathered the mainsail up the first weather leg so that navigator Erle could jury rig a new mainsheet arrangement before the load came back on the boom as the boat bore away around the first mark . |
| 24 | ‘ We have gone 10 matches without a win and it 's time to get back on the road . |