Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] back [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | Viol sprang to his feet , politely drawing back to allow his superior to precede him . |
2 | Graham Townsend finally felt well enough to go back to work this week . |
3 | She said you 'd woken , but when you did n't turn up I thought I 'd better come back to investigate . ’ |
4 | ‘ Then you 'd better hurry back to find her . |
5 | And go away they did , only turning back to snap Koo whispering into my ear . |
6 | this company moves at such a rapid rate of knots that I have a meeting tomorrow morning with the Managing Director Building and Property Development at his house in Pitlochrie which is the only time he 's literally coming back to change his shirt before he goes wandering round the world again so the only way I can get him is to go up and stay with the in-laws over night and see him at breakfast time tomorrow . |
7 | It is almost impossible to generalise about the sorts of disturbances which will necessarily reach back to affect the monetary sector and the flow of bank lending . |
8 | But she knew that , if she did n't turn up on the beach , Ross would only come back to fetch her . |
9 | Hard times in the lower middle-class regions confronted her and she doggedly fought back to make sure her young family never suffered . |
10 | Smith somehow got back to clear Stuart Rimmer 's shot off the line after the Quakers ' new style offside trap was sprung by Paul Comstive , and Mark Prudhoe could only head the ball to the forward 's feet . |
11 | I 'd be up as well , and he 'll just goes back to sleep and I shall stay awake going , Matthew you 've got ta get up now ! |
12 | She is asking you to leave her , and not come back to see her . ’ |
13 | When he finally moved back to lie beside her , he pulled her into his arms so that her head came to rest on his chest . |
14 | I was just walking back to go and he 'd got a |
15 | T'zin had already turned back to meet Alexei 's eyes . |
16 | I have been in Paris for 4 days and just got back to read the 100 messages from the list ! |
17 | Well , they moved off and then just getting back to sleep must of been half an hour after we 'd and heard this voice shout what you doing ? |
18 | NOT go back to work next week . |
19 | ‘ When you reap your harvest in your field , and have forgotten a sheaf in the field , you shall not go back to get it ; it shall be for the sojourner , the fatherless and the widow ; that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands . |
20 | Just go back to sleep … |
21 | ‘ Not yet , you just go back to sleep and I 'll call you . ’ |
22 | Clayson avoids sycophancy , recounting , for instance , the time when George reacted to news of Brian Jones ' death with the comment , ‘ I do n't think Brian had enough love or understanding ’ , and the fact he ‘ just went back to sleep actually ’ when he heard the same new about John Lennon . |
23 | Clayson avoids sycophancy , recounting , for instance , the time when George reacted to news of Brian Jones ' death with the comment , ‘ I do n't think Brian had enough love or understanding ’ , and the fact he ‘ just went back to sleep actually ’ when he heard the same new about John Lennon . |
24 | But I 'd just like to just go back to pick up something that the the lawyer , the barrister said . |
25 | Furthermore [ thumma anna ] they are dead and can not come back to join the revenge squads in the Middle East and the four corners of the world . |
26 | ‘ If he reached the manor , why did he not come back to look for his master ? |
27 | It might help you to doze off but you will probably find that you wake during the night and can not get back to sleep again . |
28 | If you can not get back to shore use a self rescue technique . |
29 | Because Streicher 's hammers no longer come back to rest position simply because of their weight , springs were introduced to return them . |
30 | But even when the shuttle she was on turned back to answer the mayday , she made sure her disguise — patterns of others ' skin and hair , eyes and voice and figure — yes , she had to make sure her disguise held , and deny her longing to be cleansed in the fire . |