Example sentences of "he [modal v] [vb infin] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A twin-engined fighter is a beast , I told Messerschmitt he should go back to the drawing board . |
| 2 | If he wants a depressing story , he should look back to the housing expenditure of the last Labour Government . |
| 3 | ‘ Mr Gould was worn out by our reverses , regretted the loss of time , and this very afternoon had been declaring with many apologies that he must go back in the Vansittart . |
| 4 | P.C. Clifford would have welcomed the tea , but said that he must get back to the scene of the tragedy . |
| 5 | bother I 've ever had with him , and he goes on to it and away he goes and he 'll come back in the house and he 'll go up the stairs to the computer , and that 's his life . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ The only way he 'll get back in the England setup is by getting promotion . ’ |
| 7 | At precisely the minute it looked as if he might step back inside the lodge , a young couple , obviously very much in love , got up and left , leaving a place for him to sit . |
| 8 | Time passed and the afternoon light began to fade and Creggan was just beginning to think that he might go back to the carrion he had found before the incoming tide took it , when he saw movement from shadows far below , and the opening of great wings . |
| 9 | He could n't touch her , she really was too young ; he imagined the pale peach cheeks of her child 's cunt and the runny sweetness inside , and thought he might duck back to the hut and toss himself off . |
| 10 | Then he could think back over the rising and understand and admit its weaknesses and set himself to imagine a better future … |
| 11 | Perhaps he could run back into the Romano-British Collection , gibbering . |
| 12 | They drew the eye to One Tree Hill , now forested over , and from this clump , at Chested , he could look back over the top of Chiddingstone Castle to another clump at Mark Beech beyond . |
| 13 | Yet Iago suddenly wheeled his pony again , and made for the highest point of the ridge , where he could look back over the valley , and see as far as the scattered outer copses and the rim of the forest . |
| 14 | He said it abruptly , his body twisted round so that he could look back at the hotel . |
| 15 | If he could root back through the maze of moment and incident , would he find premonitory signs sticking out like dire figurations of chicken entrails ? |
| 16 | He 'd stand in the doorway and watch Nathan tinkering with his bike and then , when Nathan looked round , he 'd step back into the shadows . |
| 17 | He used to come into the shop after a little while and he 'd go back in the kitchen again and he 'd come back again later on . |
| 18 | Every holiday he 'd fly back to the Gulf to be with his family , to put his feet on the familiar sandy soil of his own land , and every holiday he 'd want me to go with him . |
| 19 | The most unlikely moment for Claire to talk about a day when she and her brother went walking across the land of a man who believed he 'd come back from the dead as a fox . |
| 20 | When he had finished his meal , when he had collected his guard from the hard chair by the entrance , then he would stride back to the Haifa Street Housing Project , and he would chew on the pistachio nuts that were loose in his trouser pocket , and he would write to his mother . |
| 21 | At night when his mother was asleep , he would creep back to the computer to send messages . |
| 22 | ‘ It was always planned he would come back on the bus , but when the usual head count was made for the return journey we , of course , had the same number as when we started out — without Kenny . ’ |
| 23 | If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train … |
| 24 | But he would come back to the right cues , so I could cope . ’ |
| 25 | If he thinks that he can come back to the House , whatever the supine press may say , and present it as a triumph for Britain that he has managed to prevent those provisions from being applied in this country , although they are being applied everywhere else , he shows that the Government are not only economically bankrupt but bankrupt of values . |
| 26 | He can come back from the Moon and help you . ’ |