Example sentences of "and [verb] back [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His last customer took the smile with him as he unwillingly left the warm room and limped back with chattering teeth to the unwelcoming flat at the top of the stone stairs . |
| 2 | When it has stopped coming , he drops the body and goes back for another lamb and another , creeping down the earthen steps with his blood-stained knife and his feet and ankles splashed with red . |
| 3 | You are going to reach your weight and inch target , and when you do , unless you have another goal to aim for , you may well let your fitness campaign relax and fall back into old habits . |
| 4 | When the full meeting of commissioners also failed to agree " without the authority of their lords " , they made a truce until 5 November and reported back for further instructions . |
| 5 | Colourists at the Michaeljohn salon apply the renowned Henara Natural Colouring Powders to craftily enhance the natural pigmentation of the hair and replace its sheen , and Henara has now added a Hot Oil Conditioner to this hair-care collection , which is especially useful for injecting life and gloss back into devitalised hair after the stresses of summer . |
| 6 | Shortly afterwards Howard left Stoke Newington and moved back to central London , to St Pauls Churchyard , where he owned several houses in the neighbourhood . |
| 7 | With an effort , he heaved up first one foot and then the other and moved back onto firmer ground . |
| 8 | We stopped the boat and drifted for a while , and the birds relaxed and moved back towards Bound Skerry the rock in a long line — which did the trick ! |
| 9 | Sorry to burden you with another Europroblem , but with the growth in cross-border activity , we are getting more and more bright-eyed young journalists that know a foreign language and report back from continental press conferences the English equivalent of exactly what was said in the local language — except that it does n't actually mean anything in English : an august journal — no names to spare any blushes — reports that the boss of IBM Deutschland GmbH said with regard to the company 's figures ‘ we made a decision to place a burden on our financial balance in order to ensure a healthier future ’ … |
| 10 | To remove , score the past with a knife and peel back in one layer . |
| 11 | A few seconds later , all is done — the screen changes to show you the status of the transfer , and drops back into split screen mode as soon as it is finished . |
| 12 | Chrysler has already suspended production at one of its main assembly plants and cut back on managerial staff . |
| 13 | Then they marked half the webs with artificial stabilimenta and came back at two-hourly intervals to check on the longevity of the webs . |
| 14 | ‘ David became ‘ David Hockney ’ when he went to America and came back with blond hair and a great new self-confidence and a much more declared homosexuality . |
| 15 | Rupert went to the bar and came back with more drinks for them both and a thick and delicious-looking ham sandwich for himself . |
| 16 | Sometimes Mary went home , and came back with another scar or suppurating patch . |
| 17 | In the good , old-fashioned days text was sent off to be typeset and came back in long strips called galleys . |
| 18 | Birds ' songs often sound varied and melodious to us , but if they are recorded and played back at slow speed , they are found to have vastly more detail than we realise . |
| 19 | The 36 would-be refugees — including Serbians , Croatians and Bosnians — were refused asylum in Britain and deported back to other countries , mainly Belgium and Germany , under the so-called ‘ safe third country ’ rule . |
| 20 | I remembered I had a pistol if I needed it , and turned back towards this man of the island . |
| 21 | As you read through a book or long article , pause after each chapter or section and look back at any notes you have taken . |
| 22 | As the curtain came down for the fourth time the ‘ helpers ’ all gave a huge sigh and reverted back to responsible adults ! |
| 23 | The Centre does nothing magical , nothing unscientific , nothing really extraordinary , it merely helps you to start filtering off the oil and getting back to that crystal clear water . |
| 24 | In the four processes of that planning ( DES 1989e and DES 1991a ) the starting-point is audit , followed by and fed back from successive stages of construction , implementation and evaluation of a plan . |
| 25 | Ipswich are out to sharpen up in a big way tomorrow and get back to winning ways after a draw and two defeats in the league following the FA Cup fifth round home 4–0 win over Grimsby . |
| 26 | The world number two saw a splash after topping his drive on La Moraleja 's 414-yard fifth hole , but the ball had only skimmed the surface and finished back on dry land . |
| 27 | And feeding back through that inversion is an equally scandalous interrogation of the dominant order being mimicked ; civil society is shown to be rooted in a like corruption . |
| 28 | The opening of the novel is then the story of his ‘ death ’ : the time between ‘ dying ’ and coming back to full consciousness , a period of uncertain length , but possibly covering two years or more . |
| 29 | Tarred poles are laden with electrical wires looped out and pinned back like huge bunches of charred bananas . |
| 30 | Additional proposals include setting up an emergency fund to save buildings or sites for the nation and another for historic gardens ( two proposals which have met with approval ) , and cutting back on conservation grants , principally repair grants made to local authorities , amounting to £9.5 million annually , half of which has been on a pound-for-pound basis . |