Example sentences of "and [verb] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owen drew breath and plunged back to the little group , still hemmed into a few yards of the pathway . |
| 2 | This central role for private property has a long history in European thought and goes back to the eighteenth-century notion of the social contract . |
| 3 | We mounted and rode back through the lazy summer sunshine , the Scottish troopers massing behind whilst Vauban pushed forward between us . |
| 4 | And I started another one and I said no I wo n't be able to this and got back to the other one and did the other one . . |
| 5 | She felt , rather than heard , how he turned smartly and loped back across the panelled hall towards the door , no doubt to drive the car round into the garage . |
| 6 | Members of the committee visited the institution in rotation and reported back to the full committee . |
| 7 | Ranulf sprang up , pleased to abandon the fresh air of the country and head back to the seamy streets of London and the rounded pleasure-giving body of Mistress Semplar . |
| 8 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 9 | The car leaps forward , tears between two lorries and lurches back into the middle lane . |
| 10 | The Six agreed to hold an intergovernmental committee , to be headed by the tireless Paul-Henri Spaak , which would consider , flesh out and report back on the various proposals . |
| 11 | If he can not accept it , can he at least dispatch a team of Scottish Office officials to see matters on the ground and report back to the Scottish Office on the grim situation faced by the islands ? |
| 12 | Without a word , I restarted the motor and headed back to the mooring bay , half a mile distant , encouraged by a running commentary : ‘ Why are we going in ? |
| 13 | He pressed , just hard enough , and drew back from the falling man . |
| 14 | She hailed it , gave the Chinese driver her address in a monotone , and sank back in the air-conditioned interior , staring at the white skyscrapers below . |
| 15 | She had drifted unhappily around the estate , dragging her feet and shrinking back from the noisy pack of children which romped around the gardens . |
| 16 | ‘ A whole city partying — and transported back into the eighteenth century ! ’ |
| 17 | She returned to her car , and drove back to the Red House . |
| 18 | Next moment , both men were out of the cab and sprinting back towards the blazing house . |
| 19 | This suffering may be associated with rapidly changing configurations of personality , being a new person one day , and sinking back into the old self on the next , only to find that some minor episode puts the new organisation of self again in a position of regnancy . |
| 20 | But at last she was back in her room , and sinking back against the closed door in a grief that was too deep for tears . |
| 21 | ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ lay a quarter of a mile up-river , and dated back to the early seventeenth century , a long , low , white-painted house on a terrace cunningly clear of the flood level of the Comer , and with ideal fishing water for some hundreds of yards on either side of it . |
| 22 | He was awarded his first degree by the college where he was now a fellow , spent a year in the United States , and came back to the same college to complete his PhD . |
| 23 | ‘ An alternative theory is that the killer knocked him out first , then went into the washroom to strip and came back for the final throat-cutting before Berowne had a chance to come round . |
| 24 | I 'll quickly rattle through the next one effectively nothing more has happened at Napier , they went off for their Christmas holidays about the fourth of November and came back about the nineteenth of January er , not quite as bad as that but nearly as I mean they 've even longer holidays than we 've got and we get a fortnight at Christmas and New Year |
| 25 | We rose early and sailed back among the flying fish to Kalkan . |
| 26 | I replace the spare rounds in the small cardboard box , look around for where to put them , then slip them into my jacket pocket , and ease back into the comfortable armchair . |
| 27 | Slightly overbend it and bend back to the correct angle |
| 28 | All too often you pitch the ball short , catch the slope and finish back on the lower layer . |
| 29 | He let go and ducked back into the driving rain . |
| 30 | Then he drags his victim into the bushes or the trees , kills and cuts back to the other road and the car and makes his getaway . |