Example sentences of "back and [verb] [prep] [art] [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 | The public sector of the economy has been rolled back and strikes in the public sector have been resisted . |
| 3 | With a two goal lead from the first leg the pressure was off Swindon for once last night as they tackled Wolves at Molineux … and when Nicky Summerbee gave them the lead they could afford to sit back and cruise to the third rounds … |
| 4 | It was far safer to start a town off with a charter , a market and a fair , and a few other practical inducements to settlers , and then to sit back and hope for the best . |
| 5 | Once the message was on the wire , he had little else to do except sit back and wait for a few days . |
| 6 | ‘ They find accommodation where they set up a nursery , then sit back and wait for the right opportunity to arise . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Winter is the time to lie back and sink into the great British bath . |
| 9 | Everyone , parents and boys , craned their necks back and stared into the cerulean blue above the Village . |
| 10 | She tipped her head back and stared at the tumbling nymphs and satyrs that danced across it , trailing garlands of flowers . |
| 11 | ’ Alistair tipped his head back and stared at the coagulated window . |
| 12 | He glanced at Ajayi , who smiled back and motioned towards the small attendant . |
| 13 | It 's not a defeat to turn back and return on a better day . |
| 14 | She took an instinctive step back and brushed against a small marble horse that stood on a pedestal . |
| 15 | Stepping back and looking at the other two nuns , the Mother Superior said , ‘ Take her to her cell . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I will lie back and think of the old circus days if you insist , ’ she said . |
| 17 | CEM Joad came back and rushed for the nearest Vicar . |
| 18 | She walked towards it , pulling back and ducking under the prickling runners of a giant bramble that had overspread the path . |
| 19 | And the peedie fairy came back and lived with the old wife been afore . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For a more formal look , hair was scraped back and softened with a loose fringe section . |
| 22 | If I ought to pay a fair price for what I buy then I ought to come back and add to the agreed price . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | These infiltrate back and spread through the cleared area to repopulate the ground . |
| 25 | But perhaps it is best to take a few steps back and begin with the preliminary question : why an exhibition of the nude ? |
| 26 | He lay there , a saline drip in his arm , his head tilted back and held in a vice-like contraption . |
| 27 | She stumbled back and turned into the reaching arms of a man-shaped thing that was coming down on her . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | After two days which give them time to gain maximum strength they are taken back and released in the same areas as the eggs were collected . |
| 30 | and I both shouted and told the younger pupils to move back and get into a single line . |