Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] back [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She pulled herself together and back to the subject .
2 And get poor Jack away and back to his dressing-room and fit to go on .
3 I returned to the ratlines while we made an arc inshore and back to the north in 50 – 60ft ( 15 – 18m ) of water .
4 Clearly Leopold had been interceding on Wolfgang 's behalf , in the hope of getting him home and back under his jurisdiction as soon as possible .
5 She looked at Dodger inquiringly and back at me , but Dodger was just staring at me with her head on one side and drop dead in her eyes She was n't doing introductions .
6 anyway we had a nice trip up past and back through Prestwich and all round .
7 He is still himself — still rather short and tubby , with a high forehead , and dry hair that turns upwards and back in the wind of his passage .
8 ‘ Not unpleasant , perhaps , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ but you have n't exactly gone out of your way to make me feel welcome — either here or back at the television studio . ’
9 Jon Solly is alive , well and back after four years in the wilderness .
10 For one thing , she was almost entirely at his mercy , even to the point of getting out of here and back to Paris and her plane home .
11 It would be an absolute blessing to get away from here and back to quiet sanity .
12 It is a long way but I am sure the Lotus will get us there and back without any trouble . ’
13 This is also the only way for motorists who have been refused permission at Killilan to use the private road , or who did n't like to ask , and are fit enough to do eight miles there and back on foot .
14 ‘ And we can get there and back on the bus . ’
15 Yeah well we , if we go it 's gon na take us hour to get bloody down there and back on the bus in n it ?
16 I meant three miles there and back with sandwiches , she meant twenty miles . ’
17 A week later I took two children and the three of us got there and back for £40.50 , which does seem a comparative snip .
18 In fact the original eighteen poems of the Hardy sequence , ( in the Collected Poems of 1919 , he damagingly extended it by three extra pieces ) tell a story of the poet 's pilgrimage to his and Emma 's early haunts , matching the stages of the journey there and back to specific stages of Aeneas 's journey , in Aeneid 6 , to the abode of the blest .
19 From there it 's a reach out to the far end to the wind mark , drive there and back to the beginning again .
20 When I kissed you that first night , and accepted that I desired you , I knew then that with the situation so volatile I should get us both out of there and back to Mariánské Láznë . ’
21 Come out through the bell , back through the bell on to there and back to there
22 I walk there and back between squalls , the long ladder on my shoulder getting heavier with every step .
23 Another feat of walking was undertaken by Harry Baker , who having a brother in Hastings would , at the turn of the century , visit his brother walking there and back over a weekend .
24 ‘ You can be there and back before Buzz returns , ’ Adam said .
25 He agreed to do the first voyage there and back before receiving payment , as long as Ralemberg agreed to underwrite the voyage , using his house as collateral .
26 The LRDG patrol which was to carry out a diversionary raid on Benina airfield decided to turn back as there was no longer enough time to drive there and back in darkness .
27 Businessmen are travelling there and back in a day . ’
28 ‘ I can run there and back in no time if you ai n't got the money for the tram , ’ I said eagerly .
29 Yet when news reached Jedburgh that Bothwell was lying seriously wounded in his Liddesdale stronghold of Hermitage , Mary set off to ride the 50 miles there and back in a day .
30 There and back in a day .
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