Example sentences of "and [vb base] back [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ranulf sprang up , pleased to abandon the fresh air of the country and head back to the seamy streets of London and the rounded pleasure-giving body of Mistress Semplar . |
| 2 | The Six agreed to hold an intergovernmental committee , to be headed by the tireless Paul-Henri Spaak , which would consider , flesh out and report back on the various proposals . |
| 3 | If he can not accept it , can he at least dispatch a team of Scottish Office officials to see matters on the ground and report back to the Scottish Office on the grim situation faced by the islands ? |
| 4 | The Sergeant galloped past a man and cut back with a savage slash of his sword . |
| 5 | I replace the spare rounds in the small cardboard box , look around for where to put them , then slip them into my jacket pocket , and ease back into the comfortable armchair . |
| 6 | Slightly overbend it and bend back to the correct angle |
| 7 | I would put on a tape of Tudor madrigals — a new interest — and lie back in the contoured leather seats , letting myself melt into the crevices of Morley 's sinuous six-part harmony and observing the surrounding misery with mounting satisfaction . |
| 8 | Kids in shorts can stick My Own Meal , Kids Kitchen and Kid Cuisine ( all from Campbells ) in the little box , turn the knob , wait briefly , unload , zap down their food and get back to the major business of life , the latest video . |
| 9 | There was no time to raise it and draw back for a stabbing blow . |
| 10 | But now many of them can stand up in front of the gate and talk back to the managing director . |
| 11 | These children may continue on puréed foods for considerable periods of time or even start to reject all solids and revert back to a liquid diet . |
| 12 | Both looked well pleased after hours of hard drinking and glowered at their sober master 's harsh strictures to leave their ale and go back through the pouring rain to King 's Steps and another unpleasant journey along the Thames . |
| 13 | There are certain associates , who 're not going to use a rate book , there 's associates who er , because you 're doing a two appointment sale , will always have time to come back to the office and get a computer quote and go back with the right answer . |
| 14 | You find some tape in a kitchen drawer and go back to the front hall , turning him round so that you 're between him and the door . |
| 15 | ‘ I felt there was a real danger that we would turn full circle and go back to the dark days under Revie when the manager 's indecision was final . ’ |
| 16 | If we are not to be disillusioned , therefore , and retreat back into the relative safety and tranquillity of the withdrawal unit , part of our responsibility as teachers of children with special educational needs must be to tackle with class teachers ways to improve the curriculum at the level of general class-room practice . |
| 17 | ‘ Press down with your left foot and pull back on the green lever , then , ’ said the Thing . |
| 18 | Simmel asserts that many of the attitudes which surround , and were created through the impact of , money as abstraction are most evident when it has not completely achieved its role in transforming its own social context , and where there are still structures which resist this transformation and hark back to a non-monetarized era . |
| 19 | ‘ And he 'd go away and chuck it in the bin or down the sink and come back with a new one . |
| 20 | After lunch he 'd go into the city and come back with a whole armful of roses , the price of many shirts . ’ |
| 21 | The first day Emma had escorted Ruth to the gates and come back with a red nose . |
| 22 | He sang the same song for three-quarters of an hour , he 'd go sit on the drum riser , and come back to the mic and sing a verse , and then sit and stare into space and then come back again and again . |
| 23 | They wo n't do away with them , no but cos they , they 're trying to do away with the National Dock Labour Board and come back to the old system . |
| 24 | and come back as a bloody teenager with big tits and everything . |
| 25 | She did n't want to see Joe or anyone else ; she wanted to close her mind to the outside world and crawl back into the safe , controllable environment of her imagination . |