Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] back on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 2 | Lee loosened his grip and sat back on the floor . |
| 3 | With a burgeoning caseload , too few judges , and increasing delays the courts may be tempted to block the further development of the law and to cut back on the advances already made . |
| 4 | and we 're , we 're going on the Friday afternoon and coming back on the Monday afternoon . |
| 5 | ‘ Press down with your left foot and pull back on the green lever , then , ’ said the Thing . |
| 6 | He merely gave her shoulder an affectionate nudge and leaned back on a cushion . |
| 7 | After a bit , he took off his debonair jacket and lay back on the bed in a beautiful fluted shirt , much creased , holding her newspaper over his head to look at the article she had been reading . |
| 8 | ‘ Not , ’ said Lydia under her breath and falling back on the cliché , ‘ if I see you first . ’ |
| 9 | his voice altering in pitch , Ajayi took a deep breath and sat back on the stool . |
| 10 | Sleep covered me like an eiderdown which some invisible nurse had picked up from the floor and put back on the bed . |
| 11 | He forced the unhappy plane into an Immelmann turn and dived back on the balloon . |
| 12 | Sometimes the actors went back up to their dressing-rooms for an hour at a stretch while she and Geoffrey stood in for them , posing languidly at the fireplace or leaning back on the settee , twirling empty wine glasses . |
| 13 | The part-empty container is then taken off its rack and put back on the ground briefly to allow the hoses to drain back into it . |
| 14 | I will be staying for the weekend and going back on the train on Sunday night . |
| 15 | She lost her balance and fell back on the old iron bedstead , pulling the old woman off her feet . |
| 16 | Cover the pan with a cloth — to prevent steam from condensing on the cover of the pan and falling back on the curd — and the lid , and leave it for two to four hours , until the curd is fairly firm . |
| 17 | All too often you pitch the ball short , catch the slope and finish back on the lower layer . |