Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] back [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some may have regretted the excursion and eventually turned back for home . |
| 2 | They both cried out as they reached and went beyond that white-hot explosion , holding tight as they crested the wave and slowly drifted back to reality . |
| 3 | Speeding up urban traffic could save 10 per cent of fuel , and so cut back on carbon dioxide . |
| 4 | And that 's the point of ‘ Back In Denim ’ — not that we should all go retro and rediscover the pre-punk '70s , but that we should do what Lawrence has done and just get back in touch with our own musical roots . |
| 5 | As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job . |
| 6 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |
| 7 | Each part must be individually dried off and sprayed with oil to prevent corrosion and then put back in place . |
| 8 | By selling out when land values hit their peak in 1988 and then buying back at bargain levels later on , canny Pidgely has been able to slash house prices and still make a near-20% average profit per property . |
| 9 | And then gone back to work next morning . |
| 10 | But definitely so he sort of went on his own and then went back into building and decorating and then when the Empire opened he started there from the off . |
| 11 | I found work but I did n't tell them I had nowhere to stay , that when it was night time , I got on the night buses and stayed there until morning and then went back to work . |
| 12 | Back in Pinjarra the old , semi-conscious aboriginal groans , and then lapses back into sleep ; another fringe dweller out for the count . |
| 13 | The power of the sun would then be harvested by an array of silicon or gallium arsenide solar cells and then beamed back to earth by microwave and converted into low-frequency , alternating current electricity and fed into the USA 's grid . |
| 14 | and then go back over stuff that you 've done earlier that you have n't been able to understand where you 've felt , Ooh I do n't know what 's going on here . |
| 15 | She would take another day off and then go back to work . |
| 16 | Gradually the untreated smoke and grime turned Nordhausen into a dirty city , with dirty people , all with little to do except work and drink and then go back to work . |
| 17 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 18 | for about thirty thousand or something like that and then go back to work and just pay your own mortgage off |
| 19 | I think it should go to the D S O board to be able to look into , and then come back to policy and resources . |
| 20 | The faint silvery-white outline of his robe and his face were clearly discernible to her at all times , and so overpowering was the experience at first that in the early morning , as she poured out a cup of tea , she would pour a second cup and absent-mindedly walk towards the chair and say : ‘ Here 's a cup of tea for you , ’ and then jolt back to reality , shaking her head : ‘ Agh , I must be mad ! |
| 21 | We rose to greet her and then settled back into place like so many fluttering pigeons . |
| 22 | They did not feel sensation , but became sensation , pulsating , thrilling , climbing , soaring , diving , and then falling back towards earth only to soar suddenly upwards again . |
| 23 | It remained at this value for a further 20 minutes before rising again to 3.5 ( 0.5 ) by 30 minutes and then falling back to baseline by 2.5 hours . |
| 24 | The foolishness in ‘ Futility ’ being the foolishness of men going out killing each other and then coming back to nature and hoping that nature can sort out the mess they have made . |
| 25 | The package to be updated is read from LIFESPAN , updated to reference the modules to be incorporated in the baseline , and then entered back into LIFESPAN . |
| 26 | and then drops back into recitative with his contemptuous ‘ Ma che una feminella … |
| 27 | He heard a pheasant call and almost called back from habit . |
| 28 | Just as the classical and baroque triumphed in the design of state capitols and ultimately fed back into railway stations , so did Australia cling to forms which had never entirely been superseded as the official architectural language of imperialism . |
| 29 | And again looking back through history , Nottingham 's red light district is . |
| 30 | Yet sometimes , as in the English Mummers ' Play , ‘ it is the representative of the good principle that is killed by the evil , and afterwards brought back to life ’ . |