Example sentences of "back [conj] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I just want to go back and talk about a few things we just touched on earlier . |
| 2 | Once the message was on the wire , he had little else to do except sit back and wait for a few days . |
| 3 | He threw his head back and laughed like a young and boisterous man , till the drops flashed from the clustering wet tendrils of his iron-grey hair . |
| 4 | It 's not a defeat to turn back and return on a better day . |
| 5 | She took an instinctive step back and brushed against a small marble horse that stood on a pedestal . |
| 6 | His constitution was now in place , his political position at home was very strong , but he was almost seventy years of age and could hardly afford to sit back and wait for a long-term transformation to solve Algeria 's problems . |
| 7 | For a more formal look , hair was scraped back and softened with a loose fringe section . |
| 8 | And it think that — I mean I like to have , if you go back and look at a Rolling Stone when I was doing it , there are pages in there , I would say one third of all the pages in there , you would not even want to print today . |
| 9 | He lay there , a saline drip in his arm , his head tilted back and held in a vice-like contraption . |
| 10 | He clasped and unclasped his wiry hands two or three times as though wringing out a rag , pulled his legs on to the bed , sat back and replied in a raucous whisper . |
| 11 | and I both shouted and told the younger pupils to move back and get into a single line . |
| 12 | Thanks to just three votes , Mr Major could sit back and relax for a few moments . |