Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sunday China refused to accept back from Hong Kong a group of 71 Chinese illegal immigrants , saying it was in retaliation for allowing Mr Yang , a pro-democracy activist , to leave for asylum in the US . |
| 2 | What you 've got happening back in Moscow you can see happening here now . ’ |
| 3 | I have trespassed and will retreat back to Cambo and to the country just to the south of it . |
| 4 | It asked the officers to reflect on the discussions which led up to , and followed the issue of , Partnership in Validation , and subsequently accepted the advice offered in an officers ' paper to set up a working party to pursue the discussion further and report back in May 1978 , after consulting the Council 's committees and boards . |
| 5 | If the computer can not find the part at the local air base , the request is automatically forwarded , via satellite , to the right place back in America . |
| 6 | Forrest plays for the reserves tonight and will welcome the match practice as he has been unable to win his first team place back from Clive Baker . |
| 7 | Maybe the girl had n't reported back to Myeloski , told him that she had failed to seduce him . |
| 8 | Some German agents must have stood out like sore thumbs ( One , codenamed ‘ Garbo ’ , could never figure out English pounds , shillings , and pence , and once reported back to Berlin from Glasgow that there were men there ‘ who would do anything for a litre of wine ’ ( p. 112 ) . ) |
| 9 | Self falls under the auspices of Sun 's project Spring , which , as originally reported back in March ( UX No 377 ) , is not a replacement for Sun 's operating system , but a collection of object technologies which the company hopes it will be able to use to short circuit the evolution of Solaris and its software development environments . |
| 10 | Newman had left Otmoor and was now driving back towards London , guided by Paula to Riverboat Island in the Thames . |
| 11 | A few hours later the family were driving back to Windsor . |
| 12 | He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories . |
| 13 | But this Friday he was driving back to London . |
| 14 | Driving back to Aubagne , Alex told me how the rest of them had spent the day throwing grapes at the old German and accusing him of being in the SS . |
| 15 | Driving back to Armscott Manor , Virginia felt as if a small bomb had been detonated in her life . |
| 16 | It seemed such a waste to be driving back to England and leaving it all behind . |
| 17 | They were both very quiet driving back to Westfield Manor . |
| 18 | She and Jake had been driving back to Lomond View after accompanying Kirsty back to school when Jake had swivelled round in his seat to inform her , |
| 19 | Driving back to Leeds , Margaret timed her ear radio to the commentary from the York races . |
| 20 | I shall be driving back to Prague myself this afternoon . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Then I shall be driving back to Tbilisi . |
| 22 | It was almost eleven before we left that great mud complex , driving back through Trujillo and on south across dull , desiccated country , a lot of it near-desert . |
| 23 | Driving back from Newhaven to Tunbridge Wells that afternoon , he had only to think of the empty house and the solitary evening awaiting him at Farriers to rebel against caution and risk a diversion to Ockham House . |
| 24 | Rufus , driving back from London with the hashish his dealer swore was genuine Indian charas and a package of best Colombian , picked her off the street — ‘ a piece of property that is found ownerless ’ . |
| 25 | So you 're driving back from Nottingham |
| 26 | Its purpose was to perform acts of sabotage and to organise raids far behind the enemy lines , and ( later , in Europe ) to sustain local guerrilla groups , and send back to Britain intelligence regarding any situation with which S.A.S. troops themselves were incapable of dealing in the small numbers in which they operated . |
| 27 | The Governors referred back to Hamilton the matter of terms and of advertisements giving notice of the change , and with that was concluded the business of the last quarter of quartered years at the School . |
| 28 | A whole crowd of us were walking back to Denmark Street — me and Rat Scabies and Brian James — two founders of The Damned — and Mick Jones and some others . |
| 29 | Walking back to Rebecca 's cluttered desk , she set to work . |
| 30 | you said you were walking back with Alan and Marie cooee |