Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing to go back to the flat for ; the building would be empty , and here in the city centre she was , at least , among people . |
| 2 | Often , even after insisting that everyone goes back to the launch point , there will be barely enough people to hold all the gliders down , turn them around and re-park them if the wind changes . |
| 3 | If I 'm not careful , I 'm going to have nothing to fall back on . ’ |
| 4 | In less than a year I would reach retirement age and I had nothing to fall back on . |
| 5 | The safest course of action seemed to be to shore up the bunker and make sure I did nothing to upset the fragile eco-system that was supporting me , for however much we wanted to disguise it , I had nothing to fall back on . |
| 6 | She had no other interests in life , nothing to fall back on . |
| 7 | If the cash crops fail for any reason , he has nothing to fall back on . |
| 8 | She guessed it was pretty obvious that she had nothing to come back with when , his expression grimmer than ever , ‘ We 'll finish this conversation inside , ’ he clipped , and although Fabia would by far have preferred that he simply hand over her car keys and let her go on her way , she realised that there were some responsibilities in life which you just could n't duck . |
| 9 | Cross-examined by his solicitor , Nigel Bruce , Middleton said : ‘ I am shaking in case someone goes back to Newcastle and says something . |
| 10 | Now if anyone asks if you feel for any sense that perhaps some of these routines have perhaps got a bit of become inappropriate in some way , perhaps because you 're teaching a different type of child , or perhaps because you 've got rather different educational aims , they 've changed for some reason , then it 's like asking someone to go back to being a novice again in some senses to change . |
| 11 | Someone came back with him to plug in a telephone . |
| 12 | So in future we hope that , if anyone needs to have an up-to-date picture of the reserves in , say , Nova Scotia , they could just click it up on screen rather than have to wade through some hefty document or wait for someone to get back to them . ’ |
| 13 | He went through a brief period of chatting to the customers down at the bank about how he had seen someone come back from the dead . |
| 14 | I can just see , through the net curtains of the office opposite , someone leaning back from his desk , the phone to his ear . |
| 15 | Well I think that she was trying to keep him dangling so that she 'd have somebody to fall back on if she did n't land another man . |
| 16 | Well I think that she was trying to keep him dangling so that she had somebody to fall back on if she did n't land another man . |
| 17 | If somebody came back from lunch late without having informed him , he really berated the offender . |
| 18 | Perhaps it is true that everything points back to one 's youth : as a teenager Winters began a bottle collection after discovering a drugstore basement full of abandoned glass containers . |
| 19 | ‘ F-Freud says everything goes back to s-s-s — ’ |
| 20 | One thinks back to Morrissey in the early days and wonders why it has to be this way . |
| 21 | ‘ If Blenkinsop comes up with some facts , at least we 'll have something to go back to them on . |
| 22 | But such risks press one to go back to God who has called us and to rely on him , and this is so healthy for all Christians . |
| 23 | Each life decision is to some extent irrevocable , since even if one goes back to the fork in the road and takes the other turning , he can not eradicate the effects of the experience the first choice has brought him . |
| 24 | If one goes back to the Greek , one will find the term speiran , a precise translation of ‘ cohort ’ . |
| 25 | When one goes back to the real time in which we live , however , there will still appear to be singularities . |
| 26 | It then became conceivable that time might simply not be defined before a certain point ; as one goes back in time , one might come to an insurmountable barrier , a singularity , beyond which one could not go . |
| 27 | She 'd always have something to fall back on . |
| 28 | In some ways I wish I had something to fall back on but I wanted to play guitar in a band , not waste time at university . ’ |
| 29 | To compensate , she took a secretarial course : ‘ So that meant I had something to fall back on if the athletics failed . ’ |
| 30 | The real significance of reliability is something rather different : it is the reliability of knowing that there is something to fall back on , with family support acting as a safety net if really needed . |