Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] back [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THIS is the most advanced operating theatre in Europe , equipped with life-saving devices that are pushing back the frontiers of medical science . |
| 2 | Increasingly , however , bankers are pushing back the limits of technology-inspired redesign . |
| 3 | Let me just show you what it says , just get it straight , right that 's the service analysis for September nineteen ninety-two , alright so we 're going back a few months . |
| 4 | Oh yes you 're going back a few years ! |
| 5 | They 're going back the other way . |
| 6 | So the the Yes it 's been going back a the the name , the firm in that sense I think goes back a lot of years . |
| 7 | But you , only you I am afraid , yes , only you out of everyone here , are holding back the entire production . |
| 8 | Two factors are holding back the development of GIS applications . |
| 9 | Er Welsh colts and things of that nature are coming back a bit now , they are building up now er but |
| 10 | We 'll also be looking back a little bit at the Breeder 's Cup , we 'll also have the result of your poll for the Channel Four racing personality of the year , there 's the picture puzzle and lots of other things as well which I ca n't remember . |
| 11 | I 'm going back a step but I think it 's |
| 12 | In other words , I C I , Ingaselectric , A E I , all the big firms , all the er coal mines , all the British Rail , well British Rail in those days , and these large firms trained large numbers of apprentices and then after the five years they tipped you out , I 'm sorry I 'm going back a long while , into what they call an improver status and then you could either come back to the firm or you could go , stay where you were . |
| 13 | I 'm going back a bit there . |
| 14 | You mentioned Christopher , what er the last time it 's , I 'm going back a little while , the last time I was talking with Janet he , she was a bit unhappy , I think he was in er a teaching practice at the time and she was wondering how he was going to go on . |
| 15 | Aye , I 'm going back a lot of years ago |
| 16 | Oh I , I , I , I 'd one you know , oh I 'd one up , oh I 'm going back a few years now |
| 17 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 18 | Welcome back : In a few minutes we 'll be turning back the clock with the men who kept Britain 's coalmines working during the Second World War . |
| 19 | I suppose me Dan and Honey 'll be going back the cheap way . |
| 20 | But I do see the project quality plan being extremely valuable because you will be feeding back the front part of the quality plan to the client and explaining the extras that you 're going to do , or the constraints within which you 're working . |
| 21 | It seemed far too insignificant to be holding back a lake large enough to stretch from London to the Scottish borders . |
| 22 | Starting next year the Official Custodian for Charities , who has been in charge of investments on behalf of 40,000 charities , will be giving back the investments to the individual charities . |
| 23 | They 're very popular with the tourists , I think they feel they are taking back a whole cheese as opposed to a portion cut off a bigger cheese . |
| 24 | There was , Henry had noticed , a specially reverent way of saying ‘ thank you ’ when accepting a cheese and tomato sandwich at a funeral reception and he did not see why people should develop critical faculties just because they were swigging back a wine glass containing a fair quantity of the domestic bleach known as Finish 'Em . |
| 25 | and dashed out and fitted it , complete waste of bloody time mind you cos er we 've got the own software back in now , well actually the latest releases of it , we were going back a release because er we were having trouble , but it turns out it 's not our problem external problem so , put three dot seven back in . |
| 26 | It started in the Autumn of eighty-eight , when Phil approached me and said , ‘ Look , we would like to consider putting our services that we do offer to finance in a more effective way ’ , running alongside that was a project being run by Oxfordshire Health Authority where they were sending postal surveys to elderly people ; people over the age of seventy erm sixty-five at one point , and were getting back a huge amount of information on their perceived needs . |
| 27 | But he did not finish the all-but-spoken thought , for the words were sending back an echo from his own pages , the ones now in the hands of his agent . |
| 28 | Kevin and his brother were putting back the whiskeys and talking about things that meant nothing to her . |
| 29 | The bride 's parents were claiming back a £490 wedding day ‘ loan ’ which the young couple say was a gift . |
| 30 | The bride 's parents were claiming back a £490 wedding day ‘ loan ’ — plus interest and costs — which the young couple say was a gift . |