Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] back [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other topics might include moving from practice into industry , part-time working or going back to work full time while caring for a young family . |
| 2 | In these tight little situations I prefer the tube stem for the greater degree of control for mending line or holding back to swing baits in under obstructions and overhangs . |
| 3 | We can either go on , or turn back to fill in the secondary material or accompaniment . |
| 4 | She had lived many times on the edge of danger and she knew better than to sink back to sleep . |
| 5 | And having destroyed him , it was this other side of the ambivalence that came back to haunt them as a sense of guilt and deferred obedience , and out of guilt , they instituted the incest , the incest prohibition . |
| 6 | Then , there was nothing else to be done except get back to work in the cutting room at Paramount where he was working around the clock on The Two Jakes , for which the world of movie entertainment was waiting with bated breath ; because even though all of the above makes fascinating reading for everyone intrigued by Hollywood 's pop royalty , especially one so colourful and mercurial as Nicholson , it is the mere trivia , the overcoat of gloss and glitz , that hides the real Jack Nicholson … |
| 7 | The new Converse leather hi top basketball shoes cost £69.95 and have an ankle support that pulls back to let the foot in . |
| 8 | I wish I had a body , just an instrument to feel weary with or through , shoulders that slump , a head that tips back to face the sun , feet that drag , a voice that groans or sighs or asks hoarsely for forgiveness . |
| 9 | Fleshly , heavy things that come back to mock and torment you ! ’ |
| 10 | Surprised into consciousness , alone in the black hemisphere , he cries until he laughs ; then he uses the chamberpot that Rosa readied , and goes back to sleep quickly , despite the pain . |
| 11 | I was up in Oregon at the time and got back to find that the tremor had shoved the sewage pipes up a few inches and thrown the water out of the lavatories , a well-known portent of Satan 's arrival , if you believe the infernal guidebooks . |
| 12 | Rachel followed a squealing Belinda down the steps while David walked up to the deep end , dived in and swam back to join the rest of the group . |
| 13 | Dot pushed back the blanket , slid off Gloria 's lap and moved back to sit by her window . |
| 14 | Watch your pockets , ’ we both said in unison and moved back to give the man space . |
| 15 | She dabs a little powder on top , and stands back to admire the effect . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , ’ she whispered , then smiled when he went very still and drew back to stare at her . |
| 17 | The ale wife went away cackling and came back to serve both of them huge tankards slopping over with ale and a shared platter of meat mixed with onions and leeks swimming in a sea of grease . |
| 18 | The winter weather they had fought in was atrocious but some of Wellington 's veterans took kindly to the region and came back to settle there ; others presumably publicized it in Britain . |
| 19 | He lowered the horse 's left foreleg and came back to lift Isabel to the ground . |
| 20 | They took turns to go back to a hotel to sleep , and came back to take their places on watch and yell ‘ Pamella ! |
| 21 | IN WHICH the barefoot songstrel rewrote her life story for the late Eighties , and came back to claim what should have been hers years before . |
| 22 | He moved agitatedly across the room and then turned and came back to stand over Briant 's chair . |
| 23 | We sailed , we climbed the precipice behind the villa , walked among the chestnut woods on the mountain slopes and came back to eat delicious Italian food cooked by the voluble old peasant woman who looked after the villa . |
| 24 | I took maternity leave in October 1986 and came back to work part-time in July 1987 working two and a half days each week . |
| 25 | Taking a hint from the fame and antiquity of Egyptian flax working , Roberts went off to the banks of the Nile to study the Temple of Karnak , and came back to build Mr Marshall a factory in like fashion , which soon became known , naturally enough , as the Temple Mill . |
| 26 | The squadron had been out on a practice bombing exercise and J. had been driving round the perimeter track that afternoon , inspecting the bomb bays of returned aircraft , and came back to park his vehicle in one of the empty hangars . |
| 27 | One spring evening we had been out to dinner and came back to find Clare bounding downstairs with excitement . |
| 28 | He set off into the fog to find out where he was , and came back to find Tess fast asleep . |
| 29 | I went out for the day , and came back to find the room full of thick smoke from Holmes ' pipe . |
| 30 | She left the cubicle to find a blood test kit , and came back to find the new houseman , Joe Reynolds , ordering head X-rays and a neurologist 's opinion . |