Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] back [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps hardly surprising then that , faced with this kind of system in operation , councillors in Derbyshire and elsewhere should fight back with their own Realpolitik and hit where they think the effect will be most controversial . |
| 2 | ‘ They 'll return back to their own world once they 've had their fun . |
| 3 | Lead in : Pupils could look back on their own experience of learning to read and write , and discuss why literacy is so important in our society . |
| 4 | We , we kept on er making or doing repairs for the Ministry of Works for about ooh seven or eight years after the war finished , which kept a lot of men working in Galashiels when we , you know , when they were n't very sure if they could come back to their old jobs . |
| 5 | When he takes his foot off the pedal again , the revs will fall back to their preset level again . |
| 6 | The obvious danger is that if they are unable to earn a living for themselves , that states of Central Europe will slump back into their earlier condition . |
| 7 | MV Well , we do have a gutter press here but , of course , it is new , and in a while these things which are , for the moment , sensational , will go back to their proper place . |
| 8 | Others , such as the Hoar Stone at Enstone , Oxfordshire , will go back to their original position if moved . |
| 9 | Nikola Koljevic , their deputy leader , says Serbs will go back to their old demand for a Bosnian confederation of independent Serb , Muslim and Croat states . |
| 10 | After asking them all about their latest film , their hobbies , their lovers , wives , husbands , children , and anything else of interest , our researchers will come back with their tape-recorded notes , pick out the best bits of their interview and write up a biography . |
| 11 | When the stress is removed the chain segments will diffuse back to their unstressed positions even though the whole molecule may have changed its spatial position in the meantime . |