Example sentences of "and [verb] back on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He removes his parka , wrapping it around the muzzle of his Sturm-Ruger , and sits back on the step of the lectern . |
| 2 | And Margot went thanks very much , and got back on the bus . |
| 3 | At the same time they have re-examined ‘ respect for the individual ’ , and focussed back on the manager 's role in developing trust , justice , helping employees take ownership of their jobs . |
| 4 | He shrugs and lies back on the bed . |
| 5 | Sykes went to Paris a couple of days before you did , and came back on the Monday . |
| 6 | All she wanted now was to get really stoned and lie back on the mattress thinking good thoughts . |
| 7 | I will be staying for the weekend and going back on the train on Sunday night . |
| 8 | Many of the beaches were almost deserted in my early childhood , and to walk on a newly washed shore as the tide receded , and look back on the footsteps in the shining sand was a delight . |
| 9 | But our Key Person policy compensated us , which kept our backers and creditors happy , and eventually we managed to recruit new people , reorganise and get back on the rails again . ’ |
| 10 | Chris leads them down the hallway to the bedroom , and gets back on the bed next to Pauline . |
| 11 | A curl broke to my right and almost engulfed me , so I swung even further left and shuffled back on the board to keep from pearling . |
| 12 | Blunt , coming up behind him and hauling back on the control column to get his plane over the hedge , saw Peacock sliding out of the sky and tried to turn inside him . |
| 13 | and we 're , we 're going on the Friday afternoon and coming back on the Monday afternoon . |
| 14 | He dropped the diary into the drawer , closed it and fell back on the pillows . |
| 15 | Julia obeyed , amused at his fatherliness , and lay back on the pillow . |
| 16 | She pushed the tray off her knees and lay back on the pillow . |
| 17 | Muttering about the appalling decline in standards since she was last in Lisbon , Maria Candida knelt to help Sara off with her shoes , and while she did so , Sara sighed and lay back on the feather bed . |
| 18 | After a bit , he took off his debonair jacket and lay back on the bed in a beautiful fluted shirt , much creased , holding her newspaper over his head to look at the article she had been reading . |
| 19 | A servant girl brought me up water , I washed and lay back on the bed to rest before dinner . |
| 20 | When he had gone , she turned the light off and lay back on the bed , still in her dress if not her knickers , staring at the ceiling . |
| 21 | When the question was put , the Earl shouted ‘ not content ’ , and lay back on the buttonback red benches to await the division . |
| 22 | He smiled contentedly and lay back on the couch . |
| 23 | The pity of it all , she mused sadly and lay back on the rug and blinked up at the darkening sky above her . |
| 24 | I stopped taking my testosterone tablets and went back on the dole again . |
| 25 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 26 | If this is the sort of crap I sign when I am canned I really must try and get back on the wagon . |
| 27 | Sleep covered me like an eiderdown which some invisible nurse had picked up from the floor and put back on the bed . |
| 28 | The part-empty container is then taken off its rack and put back on the ground briefly to allow the hoses to drain back into it . |
| 29 | ‘ There they are sorted and put back on the vehicles and re-delivered so that the franchisees can deliver them first thing in the morning . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ God preserve me from foolish and deceitful women , ’ he said , letting her hair go and falling back on the pillow , his arms raised angrily above his head . |