Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] back [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After fighting back from that injury the unlucky England B player broke his ankle in the Dubai Sevens two weeks before last year 's Varsity match . |
| 2 | We will end the present Government 's policy of clawing back from local authorities amounts equivalent to those they receive from the European Community 's regional development fund . |
| 3 | She said she sometimes longed to go out , to a disco or an amusement arcade and be with other girls , but her uncle was strict and did n't like her going to those places , and although she was sometimes lonely she could n't stand the thought of going back to that school , especially now she had been away from it for so long because anyway her friends would n't be there any more and she would be treated like a little girl and the things they had to do would seem more stupid than ever because in her uncle s house she was treated like a grown-up , which she was anyway , and she ran the house . |
| 4 | It 's quite good on D'Urbino and Speckle particularly ; if you were ever thinking of going back to that monograph . ’ |
| 5 | Amazingly , his talk was of going back to ravaged Yugoslavia soon to carry on reporting the bloody civil war . |
| 6 | Apart from the fact that it divested its foundry business some four years ago — and has no intention of getting back into that game — Motorola can supply 88000 parts at a $850 apiece . |
| 7 | Well I 'm not sure it 's simple , it 's a way of getting back to eternal verities . |
| 8 | So are they looking for it to lead to a , sort of getting back to last week 's terminology , a restoration or , or are are they actually , do they know that they 're getting involved in a revolution ? |
| 9 | It is useful for the client to set him/herself specific homework assignments to complete before the following session — the notion of reporting back to one person , or a group , acts as an incentive for action . |
| 10 | The occult even stoops to necromancy , the claimed practice of calling back into temporary life a dead body for the purposes of extracting information out of its spirit . |
| 11 | Raising the level of skills amongst British workers is so crucial , not only to any immediate programme of moving back to full employment , but also to maintaining and improving Britain 's long-term performance , that the question of training can not be left to the free play of market forces . |
| 12 | He first demonstrated his taste for going back to first principles as a student at Brown University in the late 1960s . |
| 13 | The survey said that for the first time , there was a shift in reasons given for cutting back on red meat . |
| 14 | We stayed for an hour and a half taking photographs and looking round before wading back for another hour with our ammo boxes again . |
| 15 | But like most children ( and adults ? ) she has an attitude to tests which somehow stops her from checking back for possible errors . |
| 16 | It became a Soviet priority in the 1980s to prevent a whole series of Third World states from reverting back to military alignment or alliance with the West . |
| 17 | Those words stroked a node of madness within him which somehow detached him from his excruciation so that he flew above it fleetingly before sinking back into molten anguish . |
| 18 | They had weathered Bridgend 's early fury , conceding a try before coming back with some confidence to score three of their own . |
| 19 | Because of difficulties involved in cutting back on current expenditure plans , capital projects have been sacrificed in a bid to fulfil this objective . |
| 20 | A chance to adjust before plunging back into normal life after the birth is important — and so is the postnatal care you get from the midwives , in hospital and in the community . |
| 21 | There would be prize freezes , limits on co-operatives , and controls to prevent producers from cutting back on low-priced goods in favour of more profitable lines to control inflation . |
| 22 | There is a danger in reading back from this figure another stereotype , similar to the Pavlovian ‘ drug addiction/inner city ’ assumed link . |
| 23 | These do n't usually rise more than a couple of hundred metres before falling back along parabolic paths . |
| 24 | The supporters of Senora Chamorro said the decision was vital to stop the country from sliding back into civil war . |
| 25 | I ca n't say I 'm looking forward to going back to bloody coal central heating either . |
| 26 | ‘ I can now concentrate on getting back into commercial brewing and doing what I know best — making fine , traditional Yorkshire ales , ’ says Theakston , who has set up his new business next door to T&R Theakston and expects to be making 12,500 barrels a year by 1995 . |
| 27 | But we should be able to achieve that without cutting back in those regions where needs , though still real enough , are rather less acute . ’ |
| 28 | In addition to working back from subsequent arrangements , we can use Gregory 's narrative to establish the spheres of activity of the various kings . |
| 29 | I 'm gon na start by going back to that graph we looked at first thing this morning which is trying to explain what had been happening to the pattern of tourism , both visitors to this country and visitors moving away from this country in the period nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty two . |
| 30 | It has two functions : ( a ) it acts as a point of orientation by connecting back to previous stretches of discourse and thereby maintaining a coherent point of view and , ( b ) it acts as a point of departure by connecting forward and contributing to the development of later stretches . |