Example sentences of "we [vb base] back [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience .
2 What I do n't like is that we went back did n't we , I do n't know if you saw my thing to David where we report back on a fax , report every month
3 We head back to the apartment only when the day folds in around us for good .
4 We walk back through the park and disperse : tonight they 're going to a party , it 's Paul from The Soup Dragons ’ birthday .
5 He laughs again , and as the light is fading we walk back to the village , past small boys running hurdy-gurdies ; he teaching me plant names for which I can find no translation .
6 ‘ I 'd just like you to understand the problems we have … we do the best we can , ’ sighs Soliz as we walk back to the bus stop .
7 Then we cut back to the newsreader .
8 We have all sorts of remaining problems but by and large , if we look back over the past three four years , tremendous progress has been made .
9 If we look back over the record of the last twenty years in our ten countries , we may detect certain common trends , unspectacular , but nevertheless significant .
10 And quite clearly there is a lot of work that needs to be done because if we look back on the discussion this afternoon , er this morning er and this evening , quite clearly there are conflicting views and conflicting interpretations about various criteria , various elements of information that should er er should go into the mix .
11 If we look back at the exchange between the piano movers , for example , we can see that the verbs ( 's goin , 's got to take , ai n't goin' , do n't , come on ) are all in the present ( although they refer to the future ) .
12 This is ambitious , and if we look back at the scope of the information skills , it is subversive to present-day teaching .
13 In the first of three parts we look back at the working life of country people featured in ’ Twenty-Four Square Miles ’
14 When we look back to the present , it will be perfectly clear that in many sectors of the economy , the recovery has indeed started .
15 We disappear back into the forest .
16 and what we 're trying to do is plough whatever we get back into the group
17 But now , we get back on the road .
18 They need a touch of resin he decides , but as he has none it will have to wait until we get back to the camp .
19 By the time we get back to the tent Stig is limping badly and when Odd-Knut looks he finds he is bleeding profusely .
20 We get back to the subject of dating .
21 Then we get back to the taxi , and there you are waving your weaponry , and kidnapping us .
22 There are n't many OS/2 v 2 compliant packages available at the time of writing , which is where we get back to the battle , I suppose .
23 In the summer we can go out and draw from direct observation , but in winter it is too cold , but when we get back to the classroom we can draw from memory the tree we have just examined and put down on paper as much as we have learned and remembered about the tree , its form , its colour , and its texture .
24 When we get back to the house , Marie gives me the key to the door and I unlock it and let her go in first .
25 ‘ When we get back from the pub . ’
26 We swoop back across the river , squeezing between lorries and taxis with aplomb .
27 We then had to get back to the car , and after a detour that took in just about all of the countryside , we arrive back at the airport for the flight home .
28 Not needing any more we turn back to the shore .
29 After the introduction of Nicholas ( 3190 – 220 ) we turn back to the carpenter , of whom , too , we are instantly given details making him a perfect fabliau character : he is married , newly and ill-matchedly so , and thus perhaps green and inexperienced as well as old and jealous : The fabliau formulae themselves produce an unjust stereotyping in this case , as the carpenter 's jealousy , although referred to again by Alison ( 3294 ) , is nowhere evident in his words or actions in the tale .
30 We view it with pleasure for some time , and then , inevitably , at the right psychological moment , we turn back to the Parthenon with our interest renewed , perhaps moving to a different viewpoint , to see things differently .
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