Example sentences of "[noun] back [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | your bear back still got ta a little bit of chocolate left have n't you ? |
| 2 | Want your pen back now do n't you ? |
| 3 | Nic 's own things back home include a shop and record label , occasional work with The Hummingbirds and three more bands ; Sneeze , the excellently-named Hippy Drivel and Godstar ( who may well feature Evan on drums , if he can dump his own band for a month or so next year ) . |
| 4 | The Eldest Son 's wife had gone quickly to fetch her a glass of tepid water , which she drank carefully , tipping her mask back fractionally to accommodate the glass . |
| 5 | That 's why there was such a mad panic to get it done on the Sunday the last day before So why are the mattresses back there getting bloody damp ? |
| 6 | Then he 'd sent McGee to phone the police and the Dean back upstairs to inform the Bishop , who had not joined the kitchen party . |
| 7 | Bland pitches back home blamed for England 's mauling |
| 8 | " Our tycoons back home tend to look a mite less submissive . " |
| 9 | if you come back on the one before you 've only got about three and a half hours so you 've got four hours on the ferry , three and a half there and then four hours back again have n't you ? |
| 10 | Say that sentence back just to confirm that she 's got that right . |
| 11 | I am an American , this is my home , it does n't do me any good commercially to race in a formula the people back home do n't understand . |
| 12 | The people back then had been so absurdly vulnerable , prey to disease and deception . |
| 13 | I would have thought that you 'd be delighted to invite Calder back just to put your views across again , even though there is n't anything between you both , as you 've been at pains to tell me ! ’ |
| 14 | I put my hands on my hips , waited till I got my breath back then turned to the farmer . |
| 15 | And what did Vikings back home think about the raiding ? |
| 16 | I think the mother would soon regain her health if she had her daughter back again to live with her , at least for a period . |
| 17 | ( It was a nifty move to be out of the country because prices back home had just been ‘ liberated ’ , sending inflation on basic commodities soaring . ) |
| 18 | He brought the book back then squatted there again , closing his eyes and opening the pages at random , reading the first thing his eyes opened upon . |
| 19 | The laddies back there had never seen them before . |
| 20 | As is my usual practice , I pruned the first year 's growth back hard to produce several stems instead of just one , and I have been well rewarded for my efforts . |
| 21 | I met him on his way back here to report … ’ |
| 22 | On the way back again to rejoin his mate he inadvertently walked over some gravel , and the noise alerted the guards . |
| 23 | ‘ When you lot seize the land back again make sure you know about ban owls first , ’ she 's choking , ‘ you 're so keen on wild life . |
| 24 | European newspapers avidly followed the adventures of antiquarians and treasure-hunters in distant lands , as workmen back home wrestled crated colossi from the temples of the Nile through the entrance halls of the British Museum and the Louvre . |
| 25 | Towards the end of the month cut santonlinas back hard to prevent them becoming straggly . |
| 26 | squares the ball to his left and Alan the left back just pushes it out wide to that far side but he loses out , competing successfully , he 's got going forward if he can find him , and gets it and lays it off to and can now run at Mickey once more . |
| 27 | Of course , he thought , as he levered the hatch door open slowly , letting more soft light spill out from underneath , he 'd have to cover his tracks in the morning ; damn silly to have left the cupboard back there open , and the light on in the dome . |