Example sentences of "can [vb infin] back [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It seems that the central significance of economic support in families lies in its reliability : you always know that you can fall back upon the support of relatives if necessary and that this will be regarded as a legitimate request . |
| 2 | Looking ahead , Souness said he was confident his side can bounce back in the League after the reverse at Tottenham . |
| 3 | The rent officer is also responsible for monitoring the rents which voluntary hostels can claim back in the form of housing benefits , and there are fears that the limits for hostels will be set at too low a level creating difficulties for both residents and the hostel management . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , we can look back on the year with pride and feel confident that our achievements stand us in good stead for 1992 . |
| 5 | However , the withering or die-back can run back beyond the node before the plant is able to form a self protective barrier of special cells , and keep on running , even into the main stem , and obviously cause serious trouble . |
| 6 | BELOW Training is a sequence of lessons , and at this stage , you can move back towards the dog and slip off its leash . |
| 7 | They see it working and often they are given a print out of the results at the end of a spectrum or something like that that they can take back to the school with them and analyze . |
| 8 | The fire of the Lady of the Hearth also symbolizes the way in which we can reach back to the past and forward to the future . |
| 9 | Yes I 'd love to think that I can struggle back with the tree . |
| 10 | What Derrida points out is that this view can creep back into the definition of the sign itself once it has been broken down into a signifier and a signified . |
| 11 | You can flip back to the File Manager using Alt+Esc , or Alt+Tab , which is neater … |
| 12 | So , I suppose one of them , right , we can make mature , so if you 'd like to put your handset by the side of your phone , do n't put it down , we 'll let that one mature and prove that after 75 seconds we ca n't lose them , and with the other one , can we just prove that we can go back to the conversation any time we like . |
| 13 | Before the seventy-two hours are up , they can go back to the court and apply for an extension of the warrant of further detention by up to another thirty-six hours . |
| 14 | Perhaps it can be traced even deeper in the past — we can go back to the time when the woman first attracted the man whose child she will later bear , or to the onset of her menstruation , when her body signalled its readiness for pregnancy . |
| 15 | Now if we can go back to the cart that you 've kindly given |
| 16 | ‘ We can go back to the house now . ’ |
| 17 | We 'll do a Pygmalion on you and you can go back to the hospital and charm them into letting your dad out . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Then we can go back to the car . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Most people are like plates , ’ she said instead ; ‘ so if one gets broken you can go back to the shop and get another one of similar pattern . ’ |
| 20 | Now if we can go back to the period when the eighty odd agreements was developed into one national agreement , it seemed to break up what we would term a big happy family . |
| 21 | This can go back in the cupboard . |
| 22 | I weird now looking at a game where you can pass back to the keeper , anyway I digress , the question I have is where is David Harvey now . |
| 23 | well but the important thing is she 's engaged to be married I would reckon by the time she 's about twenty-six she 'll be looking for time out to have a family but by that time hopefully she 's and when she 's thirty-two or thirty-three can come back into the business and say I 've got a and the door opens that much more easily |
| 24 | Marie can come back to the house and bring her baby and we can carry on like before with me sleeping on the floor and that . |
| 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 | Louis can come back for the trunk tomorrow . |
| 27 | He can come back from the Moon and help you . ’ |
| 28 | You do n't have to lie about your age — with some forward planning and good presentation you can get back into the workforce . |
| 29 | ‘ I realise she hurt you , but I wo n't be used simply so that you can get back at the world . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ I very much hope we can get back to the table . |