Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope he will eventually dip back into that area . |
| 2 | When the shepherd eventually limped back to civilisation and told his unlikely tale , the authorities located the treasure and imprisoned the shepherd for theft . |
| 3 | They gamely fought back to 27-20 with a Rob Myler try 10 minutes from time . |
| 4 | On Aug. 8 the British hostage John McCarthy was released in Beirut ; he was swiftly transported to the Syrian capital , Damascus , and thence flown back to the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | I am speaking now of its Belgrade side , of the old men in the Academy who wished to complete Serb history because it seemed to them that it had not been properly completed back in 1918 . |
| 6 | At first they talked easily about David 's chances of demobilisation , and the kind of law he would practise when he eventually got back to London , and his prospects of fighting a reasonably safe seat at the next General Election , but inevitably that led on to Julia 's plans . |
| 7 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
| 8 | We eventually got back to our campsite at around 5.00pm . |
| 9 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
| 10 | The needle moves to its usual place but does not stay there ; it slowly drops back to zero . |
| 11 | The director duly reported back to base camp that Douglas had rejected every concession he had made in order to get him to accept the part . |
| 12 | Captain Lawton and his men seem to have had a fairly trouble-free time of it , because all 15 of them were duly discharged back in London after the seven-month voyage . |
| 13 | ‘ Though will you be all right driving back on your own ? ’ she fretted . |
| 14 | ‘ When Masklin comes back , he 's going to have somewhere to come back to . ’ |
| 15 | The mitre template has since come back onto the market , but at prices like £18-£20 and considering the relatively small amount of work in which it is employed , some readers will no doubt feel that they could spend that money more profitably , so will want to make their own . |
| 16 | He seemed to loom over her and she instinctively moved back in her chair with a jerk . |
| 17 | You 'd better hustle back to the stand , pronto ! |
| 18 | We then elected to stay on and opened up those two houses ( Bombay Burma ) for thirty officers who had been turned out of hospital from the fighting lower down , and Pop opened up St Michael 's school for about eighty soldiers until they were fit enough to go back to duty . |
| 19 | The baby was strong enough to go back to Riverstown with a monthly nurse after six weeks and he was duly baptized a Protestant in the Church of Ireland in Naas . |
| 20 | Shop manager , Jim Willcock 's been allowed home from hospital , but he 's not well enough to go back to the co-op in Cam . |
| 21 | oh about six weeks I think he was on er and then he decided he was well enough to go back to his |
| 22 | ‘ Now they are working hard to get me fit enough to go back on the list — and they 're the only ones giving me hope , ’ says Anthony . |
| 23 | 3 Stir in the peanut butter and gently bring back to the boil until the sauce thickens and goes glossy and smooth . |
| 24 | He 'd be lucky if he was merely broken back into the Scouts for ten or twenty years . |
| 25 | If I can only think back to that precise moment , and recover all the necessary ambient data , I 'll be able to figure it out for myself . |
| 26 | When they broke for lunch she left the stage very quickly , anxious only to go back to her room . |
| 27 | Feeling the fragile shell of the golden ball — more delicate , even , than an egg — he was suddenly plunged back into his dream . |
| 28 | The force is rightly stepping back from the limelight . |
| 29 | It is n't good enough to fall back on a somewhat arbitrary list of subjects without specific aims . |
| 30 | They only gazed back at us with eerie little smiles . |