Example sentences of "[verb] back [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children drew back hastily to let her through and her progress across the asphalt was like that of Moses going through the Red Sea when the waters parted . |
| 2 | Perhaps he had discovered a seam — did you have a seam of garnet ? — and had come back secretly to exploit it , and … |
| 3 | ‘ You 're telling me that you believe three convicted killers just walked out of Whitely prison without anyone noticing and now they 've come back here to duplicate their original crimes ? |
| 4 | He had played in Spain but after a car accident had come back here to recuperate . |
| 5 | CATHERINE Robbie , if you 've just come back here to give me a fright because of something that happened ages ago , you 're mad . |
| 6 | Tyson 's past had come back eerily to haunt him — this time not in street violence but in the way Desiree Washington , a competitor in the Miss America Pageant accused him of the crimes that were to see the world heavyweight champion 's status reduced to that of a common criminal . |
| 7 | He took up his claret , drank , and moved to an anecdote which he had found scarcely ever failed and would surely , he was convinced , see him through this supper party as the man of wide travel , wide curiosity , the aristocratic rover who had finally come back home to live by the more profound , more refined things of life . |
| 8 | If you feel it will be difficult to stand back sufficiently to carry out the sorts of procedures we have discussed in this chapter , then it may be best to avoid them . |
| 9 | Because he had refused to be paid she could n't ask him to come back again to deal with the seepage . |
| 10 | I feel down and thought they were going to come back again to finish me off . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I had to come back here to return to the basic me-ness . |
| 12 | ‘ There are very great difficulties in actually compelling people to come back here to give evidence — the crew for example — to a formal sheriff 's inquiry because of the time it takes to set up . ’ |
| 13 | While in the lavatory he heard footsteps , panicked and poured the acid into a dryer , intending to come back later to wash it out . |
| 14 | So that the forest could retain its wildness — its original denseness — it was forbidden back then to cut trees or hunt animals , though people were permitted to collect berries , nuts , fruits and medicinal plants . |
| 15 | I 'll be looking back again to see … the last things |
| 16 | The sixteenth-century merchant who was so proud of his oriel windows would be astonished if he came back today to find that behind them management was managing and typists typing . |
| 17 | Wright slowed the pace down with telling effect to romp through the second game , but Wallace came back strongly to take the third . |
| 18 | The first round produced no other surprises but credit must go to Fourth Division Birmingham University who played defending champions Bere Forest and , against the odds and much to the crowd 's delight , took a first half lead before Forest eventually came back strongly to win 4–1 . |
| 19 | He came back later to claim another victim and the hosts were dismissed for 126 with 5.2 overs remaining . |
| 20 | United came back again to claim the point . |
| 21 | Wycliffe said : ‘ And you met Matthew again when you came back here to live ? ’ |
| 22 | He was often away a fortnight or three weeks at a time , but he came back here to use the cleaner . ’ |
| 23 | I came back here to learn music . |
| 24 | I left the industry in the early Seventies and came back here to work at the Max Planck Institute of Chemistry . |
| 25 | Then I came back here to change , before I joined my wife at a dinner party . |
| 26 | David McCann ( Phoenix CC ) , who had been 6th at the turn in 10.10 , came back quicker to take the bronze in 22.39 . |
| 27 | David McCann ( Phoenix CC ) , who had been sixth at the turn in 10.10 came back quicker to take the bronze in 22.39 . |
| 28 | David McCann ( Phoenix CC ) , who had been sixth at the turn in 10.10 came back quicker to take the bronze in 22.39 . |
| 29 | As to last night 's match where Portsmouth came back twice to draw with aforementioned Scum , if the Parker foul on the pompey midfielder was not a penalty then I do n't know what is . |
| 30 | The second came back safely to reveal that men only just have the lion 's share . |