Example sentences of "would [vb infin] back [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First we would sit down and plan out our day ; second , we 'd decide what we expected to get out of each day , in terms of knowledge and experience ; third , we 'd go to work , and , finally , we 'd meet back at the house in the late afternoon . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If he was n't home , I 'd go back to the squat and keep my head down for a few days . |
| 4 | But if he were tired , we 'd go back to the original which was terrific . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If I were younger and had the money , I 'd go back to the Orient — to study the modern Orient , the Orient of the Isthmus of Suez . |
| 6 | If anyone thought she 'd go back to the laboratory and behave as if nothing had happened then they wanted their head examined . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |
| 9 | Then we 'd come back to the digs , wash our hair , have a wash if we were lucky , then on to the theatre . |
| 10 | Passed on from the ‘ star ’ who 'd come back from the bar |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | To measure sincerity in weapons proved very difficult , and so , from time to time , the American delegation would fall back on the mantra of peace , peace to which only Iraq was the obstacle , peace in which all these obsessions about the latest arms and the best would be redundant . |
| 14 | From time to time she would glance back into the room , her eyes coming to rest on the casually seated figure of Tsu Ma . |
| 15 | In London or Dublin the girls would look back to the house for healing . |
| 16 | Then Rachel would flit back along the alleyways to Richmond Palace . ’ |
| 17 | Suitable scenes of red-faced hilarity would occur back at the office as someone always tipped off the entire staff to be ready at the front door . |
| 18 | A spokesman said the inspector would report back to the boy 's father , Bernard Grainger , of Melland Street . |
| 19 | A resumé by Secretary General Ian Martin of the momentous world events that have occurred during the past five years set the work of AI in context and also set the scene for the working parties , which between them would report back to the plenary with recommendations that would change the AI mandate dramatically . |
| 20 | It was about this time that I received a letter from Dr Liu Shih-Shun , Chinese Ambassador in Ottawa , who informed me that , with the imminent cessation of hostilities in Asia , the Chinese government would move back from the wartime capital of Chungking to the south central city of Nanking . |
| 21 | Lexandro would fire back at the figure mistakenly … |
| 22 | At night when his mother was asleep , he would creep back to the computer to send messages . |
| 23 | When she had the sound of the sparse traffic in her ears she would sit down and rest , then she would walk back by the track . |
| 24 | But she never dared ask him , for fear he would tell her ) — the grocer treated her to infrequent smiles and would give occasional chocolates to Victoria , who would go back to the toyshop with a heavy brown moustache and sideburns . |
| 25 | Whenever he thought about this in later years , his memory would go back to the Cuddesdon time and the shock of seeing a House of Commons pretending that it knew how people ought to say their prayers . |
| 26 | Soon Diana and Mary would leave Moor House to return to the wealthy families in the south , where they were both governesses , and St John would go back to the vicar 's house in Morton , with Hannah , his housekeeper . |
| 27 | She would go back to the lodgings , lie down on the lumpy bed and rest , and try again tomorrow . |
| 28 | The Town Clerk 's just pointed out that their tape recorder 's run out and wondered if you would go back to the start and work through all that again . |
| 29 | She would go back to the shrine . |
| 30 | Clare , erm would go back to the office , you you or Phyllis or Joyce I mean preferably Phyllis would sit down with her and say , Right , Clare , what have you learned ? |