Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence . |
| 2 | Here there was a powerful tradition of French interest and influence tracing back to the Crusades , and some history of earlier French educational effort . |
| 3 | He is n't allowed to play football and has to go back to the hospital for treatment . |
| 4 | He reversed his car and prepared to drive back down the road . |
| 5 | ‘ He has had a sad time looking for work in London and intends to go back to the North-East with his parents as soon as possible , ’ said David Martin , defending . |
| 6 | Patrick shook his head and turned to walk back to the foyer . |
| 7 | Fei Yen reined in her horse and turned to look back down the steep slope beneath the beacon . |
| 8 | He covered seventy yards to gain the partial cover of the shrubbery , flung himself amongst the undergrowth , and turned to look back at the chateau . |
| 9 | Deborah turned away from the signpost and began wading back through the deep undergrowth to the main path , intending to break into a run when she reached it ; but just as she turned off she heard a faint , distant , reedy cry , which stopped her in her tracks . |
| 10 | Using the same forthrightness as her brother , she took Hilary 's arm in a firm grip and began walking back to the house . |
| 11 | The brave man turned his back on Silver and began to walk back to the beach . |
| 12 | when Sir Henry left the house and began to walk back to the Hall |
| 13 | She looked over her shoulder , shook her head again , and began to walk back towards the stairway to the gallery . |
| 14 | Isobel turned and began to walk back towards the house . |
| 15 | The whole thing had the odd appearance of a brick-built Mississippi steamboat beached and panting to get back to the lake . |
| 16 | Then the sound of the bells faded and , like water suddenly released from a dam , vigour and brawl and bustle flooded back into the scene . |
| 17 | The men turned together and started to walk back to the hotel . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought they 'd gone off my land and started driving back to the house but then suddenly felt a sharp pain in my back . |
| 19 | In a moment , the monster rose , lurching slightly , and started to head back for the dark tower . |
| 20 | I do n't think so no , but you know I mean , for six months if Christopher 's living here and having to go back at the weekend , for six months he gets an allowance |
| 21 | Clearly this was no place for me , and having tiptoed back to the sitting-room , I switched on a light and picked up the evening paper . |
| 22 | No more trying to remember what 's needed or forgetting some vital ingredient and having to trudge back to the shops . |
| 23 | He believes it is time to re-group and try to get back to the negotiating table . |
| 24 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 25 | ‘ Is it not the time when all those who have an interest in our industry should sit down and discuss our future together and try to get back to the situation where the industry controls and governs itself instead of allowing it to be manipulated by those who purchase our product ? ’ he asked about 200 delegates . |
| 26 | What , no , no , you 'll try and go get back across the meadow , I expect . |
| 27 | However , during training , decisions such as when to leave the lift and start to get back to the field are too often taken by the instructor . |
| 28 | The Colchester corporation re-elected him in 1628 , but he was unseated on the protests of the freemen , and forced to fall back on the Sussex borough of Steyning . |
| 29 | Shelley opened the door of the white-painted villa , and paused to look back across the vista of other villas and apartments , arranged like a real village around little shops , cafés and swimming-pools . |
| 30 | Resuming at the short fourth hole , he promptly took a double bogey five , leaving a bunker shot in the sand , and then following it with a six at the fifth , where he hooked into some bushes and had to go back to the tee . |