Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] [to-vb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a consensus had been reached , it had no legal standing , but Citrine expected the chairmen to go back to their own Boards and secure acceptance of the common policy . |
| 2 | The heads of governments asked the commission to come back with precise proposals for how this should be done , so that they could act on them at June 's summit in Copenhagen . |
| 3 | I had a grand day at sea , but although the tide helped me to get back the wind did n't , and I used the engine to get back into the Crouch . |
| 4 | With one final intimate raking of her naked form as if unable to help himself , he allowed the curtain to swish back into place . |
| 5 | They wandered off to the north-east a bit but not badly enough to get really lost , and after a while made a correction to drift back to north . |
| 6 | He got into the car and started the engine to drive back down the path . |
| 7 | BR said the ballot showed there were real reservations among rail staff over taking industrial action and urged the union to pull back from a strike . |
| 8 | Well no , no , I did n't fancy him yesterday , he was a bit rusty , he needed a day to get back into form , but two winners ; lets mention the other one , that one in the Biddistone all age stakes , Nicholas was there , six to four on , trained by his good lady and half and hour later , in the four o'clock , finish , Shining Jewel , romped home at eleven to one in the Gainsborough Claiming Stakes , a division two race for three year olds . |
| 9 | There were demands for higher wages , for social reform and for wider access to higher education , yet in 1966 the government felt the need to cut back on spending programmes as the economy moved into a minor recession . |
| 10 | Lofoten was chosen for this first large raid because it offered a chance to hit back at the enemy as well as such economic targets as the destruction of fish oil supplies , which might impair German manufacture of nitro-glycerine and would reduce supplies of vitamin A and B capsules issued to German troops . |
| 11 | By the time Rachel left the house to drive back into town she was feeling really savage towards David Markham , then she had to remind herself that , in spite of the fact that they all felt bitterness at the way he had walked out on Jennifer , it was n't his fault that her sister had multiple sclerosis . |
| 12 | ‘ In preparing this Address I had the opportunity to reflect back over the last thirty years , reliving those working days when wages were extremely low , working conditions poor and when in industry a person 's life was cheap . |
| 13 | At this moment she had the urge to fly back to the house , take her into her arms again and say ‘ I 'm going to make it up to you for all the love that I 've withheld , and for all the love you 've missed in your life . ’ |
| 14 | Now he had the nerve to go back on his word . |
| 15 | In fact , the fog obliged the convoy to turn back at first , but it set out again later in the day and reached the Spanish mainland with little difficulty . |
| 16 | The ball 's he let the ball drop behind him but er he still had a chance to get back on this . |
| 17 | ‘ There was one thing that struck me as a bit odd when I had a chance to look back on it . |
| 18 | They had an hour to get back to the rendezvous with their submarine when the storm strengthened , tossing them high on one wave before they slithered off its back to meet the next great sea , all the time in danger of broaching-to across the waves that could then roll them over . |
| 19 | I began to feel that it could n't possibly be encroaching on a Monday afternoon and that Emily and I had an office to go back to . |
| 20 | He traced its origin to his former position in the trade union movement ( hinting that he had an agreement to go back to the TUC where he could make more trouble for any government if they pressed him hard ) . |
| 21 | BRADFORD missed a chance to go back to the top of the Stones Bitter Championship after being hammered 28–6 at home by Castleford . |