Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to find out what the substantive law is , we must still go back to the time when Law and Equity were administered in different courts ; we may still have to picture to ourselves distinct proceedings taken about the same matter in those courts , and work out the result of those separate proceedings . |
| 2 | Into Wales I should switch to the Abergavenny mast , but approaching Abergavenny when a big hill causes problems , I should briefly tune back to the Wenvil setting , then return to Abergavenny until the Llandrindod Wells mast comes into view . |
| 3 | let's just go back to the pace then . |
| 4 | He 'll probably merge back into the Department of Transport . |
| 5 | He might also press back against the plinth when he tried to move his seat or legs . |
| 6 | Looking at it realistically , I think I 'll either go back into the museum side of things or carry on with what I 'm doing now . |
| 7 | But you 'll never get back against the wind . |
| 8 | I 'd rather go back to the Ministry Of Defence ! ’ |
| 9 | " As for going underground , I 'd rather go back over the heather . |
| 10 | ‘ I think I 'd sooner go back to the house . ’ |
| 11 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ I 'd just come back from the States and was hanging around with a band called Ashton Gardner and Dyke . |
| 12 | I would often hear from my assistant who now looks after Cher , but at that time was delegated to looking after me , and she would say that she 'd just come back from the MainMan offices and the main office door was closed into DeFries 's inner sanctum and there were raised voices between him and David in there . |
| 13 | One day , on his way to do the ploughing , he met a man who 'd just come back from the south and had passed several flocks of sheep on the other side of Chhakuri Lekh . |
| 14 | Once intimate told me : ‘ Now he 'd just come back from the ‘ A ’ tour and his confidence was sky-high when he learned , at second hand as far as I know , that Matthew was going to be vice-captain . |
| 15 | In choosing a kasabat kadilik , then , a student was in effect shutting himself off from the high offices of state and , provided that he intended to stay within the learned profession , dooming himself to a lifetime of service in the kasabat kadiliks unless he could somehow get back into the medrese stream . |
| 16 | So it was a case there , and course at the end of the day you rolled the little roll up , put elastic round and stood them up in a file and they stood there like little soldiers and you could always go back to the actual time , sometimes you found a man had n't re erm signed on , he 'd just gone and joined his bus up in town centre , well you , that was er subject of another letter . |
| 17 | If we ca n't see anything more unusual suppose we could always fall back on the bubble baths or the anyway I think that 's a bit more than but there you go . |
| 18 | Gough could always write back to the Scottish League — as he is obliged to do this week in response to the management committee 's request for his views on United 's complaint over Ferguson — and point out that being forced to go to such lengths to contain his opponent proves he was correct to covet the forward for his team . |
| 19 | If the backpack gets too heavy , of course , you could always canoe back down the river to Chepstow ! |
| 20 | ’ You could probably get back into the FedPol . |
| 21 | Thomas could now look back on the papers he had begun , or completed and sold in his first two terms , as ‘ vain stuff ’ but he continued to write verses , which were sent to Harry and Helen . |
| 22 | For she could then fly back to the arms of her lover , heart-throb Ayub Khan Din . |
| 23 | In other words , I C I , Ingaselectric , A E I , all the big firms , all the er coal mines , all the British Rail , well British Rail in those days , and these large firms trained large numbers of apprentices and then after the five years they tipped you out , I 'm sorry I 'm going back a long while , into what they call an improver status and then you could either come back to the firm or you could go , stay where you were . |
| 24 | ‘ We feel a real sense of belonging , and even if the business collapsed tomorrow we 'd never go back to the south east . ’ |
| 25 | She knew it was the thing she must n't do , must n't let herself be persuaded into , that it was death , the end , that there was no going back , you could never get back to the same position . |
| 26 | The nurse may also come back in the evening , especially in the beginning , in order to help the patient with medicines , such as insulin injections for diabetes , and to position him correctly in bed . |
| 27 | In the Kindron Valley part of the Garden of Gethsemane has been preserved with a number of very old olive trees which may even date back to the time of Jesus . |
| 28 | Unless it can effect a remarkable recovery , the factory may well disappear back into the bleak and sodden marshes of Essex from which it emerged nearly 60 years ago . |
| 29 | The hard-edged anti-romanticism of the 1980s tried to eschew such practices ; but the pendulum may well swing back in the ‘ 9Os . |
| 30 | The gubernatorial trial balloon may well fall back in the Speaker 's face because , quite simply , there is not enough air in it . |