Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Love-making 's not easy when you 're driving back from an evening meeting in Cheltenham to reach London by 1.30am and you both have to be up early for work the next day . ’ |
| 2 | I remember Status Quo 's ‘ Down Down ’ , though , and was disappointed that Cud drew back from an attempt at reproducing Quo 's perfect repetition . |
| 3 | He had appointed the Tower Commission , he said , specifically to find out whether money had been generated from the arms sales beyond the ‘ twelve million two ’ , and , if so , who had done it ; but no one had come back with an answer . |
| 4 | Branfoot said : ‘ Matt has not come back with an answer but we are still in the early stages of negotiation . ’ |
| 5 | Now talk some more and let me hear whether you 've come back with an American accent . " |
| 6 | Against the black walls there were of course changes in fashion , changes of music , changes in drink ; for instance for a couple of years you could get little liqueur glasses of violently alcoholic black coffee with pyramids of whipped cream on top after one of the barstaff had come back from an affair with a real sailor ( or so he said anyway ) in some German port , Germany somewhere . |
| 7 | The other , Bath and England B star Audley Lumsden , is just lucky to have his chance , having come back from an horrific , career-threatening broken neck . |
| 8 | ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there . |
| 9 | The Faculty also calls for group losses surrendered ( within a ‘ 75% group ’ ) , which can not be relieved in the same accounting period , to be allowed to be carried back to an earlier accounting period . |
| 10 | Her hair was thin and fair and long , caught back with an elastic band , and her face was thin and long too , wizened and pinched . |
| 11 | Rangers are waiting for Keegan to come back with an improved offer after rejecting a staggering £3.3m bid , and Keegan could offer transfer-listed Franz Carr as the makeweight in a new player-cash deal . |
| 12 | I think to come back to an earlier question of what should you teach them , and what is normal , is that ideally a child wants to grow up in an environment where his or her parents enjoy here , where the relationship is enjoyable on both sides and not shot through with anxiety about how well this child is developing , providing the development is within the normal range . |
| 13 | I think to come back to an earlier question of what should you teach them , and what is normal , is that ideally a child wants to grow up in an environment where his or her parents enjoy here , where the relationship is enjoyable on both sides and not shot through with anxiety about how well this child is developing , providing the development is within the normal range . |
| 14 | Rather than fall back on an increased emphasis upon managerialism based upon hierarchy and control , the Education Reform Acts should be regarded as an opportunity to review , not just in a coping way but in a maximising way , the management structures and processes of our schools . |
| 15 | In the process we may fall back on an idealized view of our own society , or take our cue from generalized impressions of ‘ Western ’ experience . |
| 16 | However , we can not fall back on an ‘ outer estate ’ — ‘ inner-city ’ dichotomy here . |
| 17 | They took the lead courtesy of Trevor Smith 's sixth goal of the season but were pegged back by an equaliser from Johnny Jameson who failed to appear for the second half . |
| 18 | Boniface was looking back to an age in which the privileges of the churches of the Anglo-Saxons had been untouched and inviolate , or so it was thought , and he saw this age as ending — as he tells Aethelbald — in the time of Ceolred , king of the Mercians , and Osred , king of the Northumbrians ( both of whose reigns ended in 716 ) , whom Boniface accuses of behaving as Aethelbald was now doing and as a consequence of which they both perished miserably . |
| 19 | Looking back as an ordinary member , it is clear the buying out episode must have been irksome in the extreme and very wearing for a group of unwitting members who volunteered at this point in time to serve the Club and whose prime interest was a round of golf ! |
| 20 | When the twelfth-century bard , Cynddelw , recalled ‘ the clash of Powys … with Oswald ’ , he was looking back on an episode which had considerable significance not only for the Welsh but also for the Mercians . |
| 21 | He came back with an exchange of letters , in which Eisenhower had agreed that Britain could buy Skybolt ; and , in return , Macmillan had accepted an American request for base facilities for US nuclear submarines at Holy Loch on the west coast of Scotland . |
| 22 | So she was packed off to bloody England and came back with an Englishman . |
| 23 | Wilkinson came back with an offer of £660,000 — and was cock-a-hoop yesterday when a tribunal in Walsall ordered Leeds to pay £694,000 . |
| 24 | He went off into the kitchen and came back with an apple pie . |
| 25 | And still laughing , Charlie said , ‘ But I did what you lot did n't do : I came back with an Irish jig , and then , ‘ We 'll Meet Again ’ and ‘ Roll Out The Barrel ’ . |
| 26 | Cardiff came back with an equaliser just 6 minutes later . |
| 27 | United came back with an equaliser with fifteen minutes to go . |
| 28 | They looked good for all three points but County came back with an equaliser from Phil Turner … |
| 29 | United came bouncing back with an equaliser at the start of the second half . |
| 30 | Workfare was on the committee 's agenda but the committee has now been wound up and it is thought workfare has been pushed back as an idea requiring long-term consideration rather than implementation in the near future . |