Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house . |
| 2 | That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house . |
| 3 | One of the most common patterns of establishing chains of reference in English and a number of other languages is to mention a participant explicitly in the first instance , for example by name or title , and then use a pronoun to refer back to the same participant in the immediate context . |
| 4 | Therefore the Australian move to make whaling more humane was in fact a move to get back to the way it had been after a serious deterioration . |
| 5 | For them , he said , there was a need to go back to the basics of spelling , grammar , punctuation and arithmetic . |
| 6 | The advent of war was not seen by Unionists as a need to turn back to a conventional patriotism , for Unionists had never doubted the patriotism of their previous stance . |
| 7 | Now this may be a desire to get back to a sexy woman but the tone was all wrong . |
| 8 | If we picture a vibration as a cycle , that is as equivalent to a rotation round a circle to arrive back at the beginning again , the angular distance travelled in the mathematician 's natural units is 2π . |
| 9 | He felt mercifully isolated and stopped for a while to lean back on the lower bank of fell . |
| 10 | BRADFORD missed a chance to go back to the top of the Stones Bitter Championship after being hammered 28–6 at home by Castleford . |
| 11 | Lofoten was chosen for this first large raid because it offered a chance to hit back at the enemy as well as such economic targets as the destruction of fish oil supplies , which might impair German manufacture of nitro-glycerine and would reduce supplies of vitamin A and B capsules issued to German troops . |
| 12 | Warwick , 38 , and a veteran of 131 Grands Prix , won the world sportscar championship with Peugeot this year and has been itching for a chance to get back in the big time of Formula One . |
| 13 | The latter allows both parties a chance to stand back from the daily routine and take a harder look at overall performance . |
| 14 | This is a unique journey — a chance to step back to the days of sumptuous style , to the days when international travel was lavish and luxurious , when railways meant romance and trains meant tradition . |
| 15 | A goal or two is what everyone needs and at least United have a chance to come back in the cup with the second leg at Torquay next week |
| 16 | Lawrence picked up the handset and radioed into central headquarters , asking for a policeman to go back to the club . |
| 17 | Maybe it 's a ploy to get back at the people TSB calls ‘ Rich Bastards ’ for having credit cards . |
| 18 | The final sweaty pull up the eroded rocky path to the summit plateau of Ingleborough was warm work and it was a relief to lie back on the dry grass , rucksack for a pillow . |
| 19 | Back in the bedroom , he handed her the discarded nightshirt , his face carefully blank as Leonora scrambled into it , so unsteady on her feet that it was a relief to get back beneath the covers . |
| 20 | We have returns so far from sixty five per cent of the schools and we expect to have the remaining schools before the end of the month , I would n't expect it to change from where we are at the moment but if there was a significant variation then I will be in a position to report back to the Policy Committee at the end of the month but I 'm , I 'm not expecting that need be the case . |
| 21 | However far out an animal may seem to be going there is a tendency to swing back into a pre-ordained behaviour or orbit within which motivational satisfaction may be most probably attained . |