Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 'll probably twang back in again |
| 2 | Nevertheless , efforts were made to persuade Israel to accept back at least some of the refugees . |
| 3 | ‘ I was walking back for over an hour through deserted streets . |
| 4 | ‘ I was walking back from here last night when I got lost … ’ |
| 5 | From having been at the very centre of public affairs , the Frost family sank back into almost impenetrable obscurity . |
| 6 | Anna had come into the world feet first and it took all the experience of Mrs Finklestein and the skill of the young Dr Arlen , who had come back at once with Denis , to turn the baby round without strangling the little thing with its own cord . |
| 7 | It 's come back on again . |
| 8 | ‘ It says , ‘ They Take A Bite , But They Do n't Come Back For More ! ’ ’ she said . |
| 9 | Seems like somebody else has come back from somewhere too . |
| 10 | As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in |
| 11 | Sarre ( 1981 ) points to the quite marked fluctuations in numbers throughout the 1970s ( although he recognizes the data limitations ) which reached a peak in 1972 and a low in 1975 , climbing back to about 155,000 in 1979 ( table 5.4 ) . |
| 12 | And er we lived at a village called Homewood near Heath there , then we moved back from there He moved back to er Underwood again . |
| 13 | She moved out for a while , but carried on cleaning for her ; and then when she married , she moved back in again , and had her first child there . |
| 14 | Pauline moved out and she moved back in again though did n't she ? |
| 15 | He regularly swam a mile or two out , surfed , and then swam back in again . |
| 16 | Not expected back for quite a while yet , I suppose ? |
| 17 | ‘ But you 're not expected back until tomorrow . |
| 18 | The boy in the stable said that Mr Kiniver was out at a funeral and was not expected back until late . |
| 19 | No look if I talk into it quite loud like this it cuts out and then it takes a while to come back on again okay is that alright ? |
| 20 | It is a work I have to come back to again and again . |
| 21 | ‘ By organising a holiday competition we were able to get over one third of our target market to come back to Nationwide . ’ |
| 22 | And er the foreman and bosses that knew people and they knew the circumstances and I suppose they put a word in and erm you know men were sort of stopped because er I mean , if a man had a house full of children or something , he 'd probably be the very last you know before he was sort of forced to g you know sacked or wh And I mean they were n't sacked in a sense , they was always ready there was a place ready for them to come back to there . |
| 23 | at four o'clock and we were n't likely to come back till later . |
| 24 | that 's it , say it again , stop kicking the piano , say sonata , if you 're going to kick the piano , you 'll have to come back round here or you 'll come out of this room |
| 25 | Difficult though it was to come back after so long a lay-off , she was the runner-up in the Yorkshire Championship both in 1950 and in 1953 . |
| 26 | You want old Bombie to come back in here and give you some more of what Biff gave you today ? |
| 27 | He had n't looked back since then . |
| 28 | Kernaghan has not looked back since then . |
| 29 | These weeks are looked back on affectionately by pupils as they remember the camaraderie they have developed with Staff , parent and senior pupils . |
| 30 | THE AUDEN GENERATION by Samuel Hynes Pimlico , £12 THIS literary history of England in the Thirties ( a decade often looked back upon nostalgically as the most recent time when literary giants still stalked the land ) is more than the usual glib account of the rise to fame of that precocious composite poet MacSpaunday . |