Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gently slide your hands up the back of the skull as you allow his or head to come back down gently . |
| 2 | The idea that criminality is the outcome of organic disorder or disease goes back at least as far as Lombroso , who associated crime with epilepsy . |
| 3 | The sound has been increased to such a volume that , as I turn my head as if from a physical blow , I notice rows of heads with their eyes staring wildly and hair blown back as in a fierce gale . |
| 4 | So Gloria and Dot went back down the area steps to their room , leaving the sunshine behind . |
| 5 | a change in the departmental structure creating giant super-ministries such as Department of the Environment and the Department of Trade and Industry to suck back decision-taking from the centre ; and the establishment of business-like organizations , such as the Property Services Agency and the Procurement Executive , to secure the better management of large blocks of Whitehall work ; |
| 6 | The existence of the continuum means that policies made by the centre are changed by information and guidance coming back up from the locality . |
| 7 | But they represent a great slice of gardening history ( no plants , no gardens ) and provide us with a rich , exciting and often colourful tapestry of adventure and discovery going back at least several hundred years . |
| 8 | What you must never forget is that I am not and never have been an ethnic of any description , and that I have never found any evidence that justifies any cretinous claim by you , or by any of your co-morons in the sewers of lofty racist Neanderthal , that Eurocentrism warrants any positive attention from those like myself who inherit — and consciously — a civilised tradition and philosophy going back millions of years . |
| 9 | Slazenger and sport go back a long way but did you know that they also have a great sports toiletries range ? |
| 10 | For a nation which had fought a costly war of survival and independence to invite back the very presence which threatened national existence was , and remained unthinkable . |
| 11 | And boy kept back . |
| 12 | A sprightly 81 years old , this English engineer and inventor looks back with satisfaction on a lifetime as an explorer of the heavens , the Earth , and the limits of the technically feasible . |
| 13 | The N.C. O. handed over the papers he had brought and after clicking his heels and saluting went back into the station without looking at me . |
| 14 | They took the nearest passage in the same direction , snapping off the torches and moving by touch alone , eyes straining in the swirling gas , tensed for the figures that could be the fleeing enemy — or Lawton and Silk falling back . |
| 15 | ‘ The de Sciorto name and title goes back to the sixteenth century . |
| 16 | Hold this position for a few seconds then let your shoulders and head go back slowly to the floor . |
| 17 | A SENIOR director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development flew back from Budapest last night to assess damage to the bank 's London headquarters after Friday night 's IRA bomb explosion . |
| 18 | After the final touches , Endill and Mould stood back and admired their work . |
| 19 | Abruptly , the all-pervading background noise in the TARDIS altered , and when Ace and Petion dashed back to the console room , they found the time rotor grinding to a halt . |
| 20 | of pencils — the distant echo of my booming heart — and night flings back |
| 21 | It drifts back up to join the clouds and sweetness comes back to the day . |
| 22 | The answer is that after mating they produce a tiny mobile larvae totally different to the adult this might drift for miles on ocean current before settling into the fixed adult form Down Norwick power station in North Wales , generates the electricity by pump storage , in off peak hours thousands of gallons of water are pumped from a lower lake to an upper lake , when the demand for electricity is high bowels are opened and water falls back through turbine to the lower lake again , this generates the power To ensure that the lower lake would never flood the was diverted through mile long tunnel in the mountain side , no one knew for certain how the salmon , the trout and even rarer that used to migrate up the old river would cope with the tunnels , pitch darkness and slow flowing water . |
| 23 | The bond between man and dog goes back ten thousand years . |
| 24 | Then , only a beat later it seemed to him , shame and anger raced back to take possession of him again , and so overcome by these conflicting feelings was he that he had no consciousness of her in all this , until he became aware , to his surprise , that she was shaking him out of his stupor , bringing him to her again with her mouth and her hands . |
| 25 | Thus progress always overreaches itself and mankind falls back into a new barbarism . |
| 26 | She glimpsed smooth skin , but the blood and dirt flooded back in . |
| 27 | Bluster about morning hate and advice to go back to Adolph got a maddeningly cool reply . |
| 28 | And baby come back : A heart operation at birth , but she 's home . |
| 29 | And word gets back to apostles in Jerusalem . |
| 30 | Over the next two hundred yards she slowed down again , her misery and inertia crowding back upon her , her loneliness embracing her . |