Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] back [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope he will eventually dip back into that area . |
| 2 | She had only to sit back with perfect composure — something at which she was adept — and wait for him to find his way through the necessary preliminaries to the real business of this meeting . |
| 3 | Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe . |
| 4 | So you know it , it , it 's just , they will actually , the interesting bit is that they 'll only move back to that equilibrium point as you fall down towards them . |
| 5 | A Formalist/Prague School approach thus necessarily projects back onto earlier literature the aesthetic standards peculiar to the modern age . |
| 6 | Even if the awaited rain fell at the poem 's end , it would only lead back to that beginning , ‘ breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land , ’ with all its attendant suffering . |
| 7 | Guilt , or constantly thinking back to past errors , only has any value if you are able to learn from it and to make a firm decision to avoid those errors in the future . |
| 8 | But US companies only ploughed back into new investment a sum equal to their profits . |
| 9 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 10 | A field where the sign no longer refers back to real objects or persons but instead constructs what is to be perceived within the system of signification . |
| 11 | I 've I 've just come back on that D two stop three . |
| 12 | And Rodger has only just come back from three weeks ' rehabilitation at Lilleshall . |
| 13 | modern rhythmic gymnastics was created by the Russians … our top girls have just come back from special coaching over there … it showed in the championships … the best yet and the the closest with Alitia Sands of Coventry winning by point nort five of a point |
| 14 | Capercaillie in Scotland have already come back from near extinction once . |
| 15 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 16 | I 'm just going back along this run for Nildro-hain . |
| 17 | So just going back to these 'ates , sulphate has got sulphur and oxygen in it , a carbonate has got what ? |
| 18 | By the way , just getting back to these interventions . |
| 19 | On 17 July 1429 , less than ten weeks after relieving Orleans , and having in the meanwhile brought back to French rule a number of towns , including Troyes where the fateful treaty had been sealed in 1420 , Joan stood in the cathedral at Reims watching the dauphin as he underwent the rite of coronation , the rite by which his predecessors had become full kings of France . |
| 20 | Stockholm : Sharp gains in Volvo and Ericsson shares dominated a moderate session in which prices generally fell back from early advances . |
| 21 | But Trogus soon falls back into imaginary history when he tells the episode of the chieftain Catumarandus , who had been persuaded in a dream by a goddess to make peace with Massalia . |
| 22 | Holland thereupon went back to regimental duty , on being offered a regular lieutenant-colonel 's command . |
| 23 | ‘ The notebook had already gone back with another Kazakh climber who had returned early , but I gather that it was written in English . |
| 24 | May I just go back to one point ? |
| 25 | I 'd also like to just come back on one point that Mr Feist made about a a two tier approach to employment sites . |
| 26 | Can I just come back to this migration question . |
| 27 | Right , so let's just get back to some numbers erm looking at the European Community right , the producer benefits alright , the European Community common agricultural policy produces benefits thirty three point three billion dollars presumably yes , billion dollars . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh God , Rainbow , let's just get back in that taxi and scarper straight home to London , ’ mutters Becky to her niece . |
| 29 | We just slipped back into each other again . ’ |
| 30 | Troopers of the rearguard were already falling back in reasonable order . |