Example sentences of "[verb] back [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a hole in the ceiling to let in the rain but just to be safe he returned every day for a week to water them and was walking back one afternoon when , turning a corner , he felt a hand on his shoulder . |
| 2 | She was walking back one day , her baskets empty , her spirit almost peaceful for once . |
| 3 | In the first case , elitism does not provide an explanation , being merely a loose term to describe a social category about which other features rather than the elite characteristic provide what explanation there is ; in the second case , the power elite looks remarkably like a social class , and elite explanation has come back full circle to its point of departure . |
| 4 | They were given a sumptuous tea and invited back any time they felt like coming . |
| 5 | The tendency is for everyone in the team to touch the ball as it goes through and to shuffle back each time someone has completed their turn . |
| 6 | They may also be carried back one year in most circumstances . |
| 7 | Early skiers reported back that powder coated the empty slopes and bookings flooded in to the tour operators . |
| 8 | Deputy hooker Ian Jeffery drafted in at blindside flanker typified the courageous tackling of the home team to avert a glut of scores by the visitors the County pack plying back enough possession to win a dozen games . |
| 9 | HUNDREDS of Ulster students could find themselves homeless and on the street when university starts back next month . |
| 10 | comes out , comes out at New Year 's Day , I was at home then and it erm going to come back New Year 's Day |
| 11 | I 'd love to come back one day and see how such good youngsters as Simon Brown , Mark Briers , Paul Henderson , Stewart Hutton and John Wood are working out . ’ |
| 12 | Many of the thousands of youngsters who were at last night 's tie as non-paying guests may have been sufficiently impressed to want to come back one day as paying customers . |
| 13 | I think we 're planning to come back next year . ’ |
| 14 | Evans , who has transformed Cardiff from last season 's Welsh rugby no-hopers to this year 's championship contenders , said he had been asked to come back next year but personal problems might prevent him doing so . |
| 15 | He is happy coming to Presteigne and hopes to come back next year . |
| 16 | I 'll tell him to come back next week . |
| 17 | Tell him to come back next week . |
| 18 | When Jim , of Ravenscliffe , West Yorks , went to the police station , officers told him to come back another day . |
| 19 | ‘ Do you want to come back another day , when the light 's better ? ’ |
| 20 | Do you want me to come back another time , I — ’ |
| 21 | After a small glass of Cyprus sherry , Greg took his leave , amid pressing invitations to come back any time in the future when he felt like a chat . |
| 22 | I 'd put them all in an old suitcase and erm , cos I could n't just put them in there I had to have a look , they 're sentimental and that book was in there so I can definitely get you that , but I would n't go up in the loft I 'm afraid , I 'm so scared of creepy crawlies so er , you know , if you , if you want to come back some time when my husband 's here I mean he can tell you more about the wallpaper and decorating , and I 'll get him to get that out . |
| 23 | ‘ Tell him to come back this afternoon , or tomorrow — or next week … or something . |
| 24 | Want to make an appointment to come back this afternoon ? |
| 25 | We will supply and buy back foreign currency and Thomas Cook US dollar and sterling travellers cheques FREE of our normal commission charges ; and you will be offered a FREE eurocheque card . |
| 26 | THE fun-loving niece of tycoon Lord Hanson plunged to her death after knocking back SEVENTEEN tequila slammer cocktails costing just £8.50 . |
| 27 | Well there are a number of spaces that are in positions which could be used by disabled , in other words , they are not sort of , sandwich tight against other spaces and what 's happened in the past is that erm when a need has arisen an and when perhaps there 's been er generally a bungalow that has been er , occupied by somebody who 's disabled then the housing department have erm modified that space I mean , wha what we 've actually done is we 've er , taken a certain amount of block paving out but put back some block paved logo , sort of , standard white er symbol that erm that identifies disabled space and and , and that space is actually earmarked for that person , and it could happen in a variety of different locations erm it 's just that there 's probably not so much point in doing it until you know that there is er a specific need . |
| 28 | It will bring back better information about Venus 's geology . |
| 29 | Even a conservative restoration in the Soviet Union would not bring back communist rule to these countries , they believe . |
| 30 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |