Example sentences of "would [verb] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time Sherif 's woolly old head , loosely wrapped in a dirty headdress , would fall back against the fly-speckled surface of the remaining quarter of a red sign . |
| 2 | All he would say was that the paper would be completely new , but would hark back to the great days of the Mirror . |
| 3 | Sure it would bound back towards the green — a wide |
| 4 | We were troubled at how Frank would cope back in the big world . |
| 5 | trying to turn the tables again so that he would stop feeling uncomfortable and Starke would go back on the defensive . |
| 6 | But then it would go back to the usual music , the old pictures would go up again and it would be back to the black paintwork . |
| 7 | There was the man who had been with him and taken the briefcase from the hotel room and who in the morning would go back to the Golani Brigade stationed on the Lebanese border and who would be chided by his fellow officers for having taken leave while the military workload was intense . |
| 8 | Even so , I would go back to the exciting clamour of Cairo tomorrow . |
| 9 | Andrew would go back to the bright lights of the capital and she , Benedicta , would ensure that Topaz was kept too busy to think about things which could break her heart . |
| 10 | But then if that not conceded or protest not sus sustained , that would the letter would come back to the Official letter would come back to the branch secretary you see , and he would look at it , and he would put it to his branch and if they wanted to go further , that went to Euston House , the N U R headquarters , Euston House . |
| 11 | But he would come back to the right cues , so I could cope . ’ |
| 12 | Although no note awaited her on the doorstep , no letter came and there were no phone calls , Anna knew the cat woman would come back on the following evening . |
| 13 | erm I think the consensus is that you would n't — that either space is infinite , or at the very least it it 's finite it has no edge , so if you went in one direction for long enough you would come back in the other direction . |
| 14 | The club have kept this one very quiet as it was not expected that Hanley , who returned from a summer in Australia with a bad pelvic strain , would come back before the New Year . |