Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is accused of direct interference in senior board and managerial appointments and other local decisions , and of holding back money in reserve to then push it out on waiting list initiatives . |
| 2 | ‘ But , ’ said Fael-Inis , ‘ for the moment we are concerned with the Conablaiche , and with turning back the First Herald . |
| 3 | Cassie murmured a response , and without turning back to Ben , she carried the milk bottle into the house . |
| 4 | The weather was good throughout , and since coming back we have had some real summer at last — with some dreadful days mixed in . |
| 5 | It might have been induced to spend lots of money on dividend payments and on buying back shares , to boost share prices and keep shareholders sweet . |
| 6 | Mist is a swine , and on arriving back at the little lochan I started to become confused again . |
| 7 | He became convinced of the future of floodlit football , and on arriving back at Highbury gave poor Bob Wall just one month to get hold of ‘ lanterns ’ for the practice ground . |
| 8 | Like other oil companies , Shell is under pressure to trim costs and by cutting back its contribution to the exploration drilling costs it will have saved £3 million . |
| 9 | But after flying back from America with Lewis , he was already making contingency plans for his man being handed the title without throwing a punch . |
| 10 | But despite flying back to the more forgiving climate of Cairns , his fever showed no signs of leaving him . |
| 11 | so I started working through them , but without referring back to the notes that you know what some of them |
| 12 | But by looking back at the archaic phase of Greek history and forward to later autocrats , as we have done with the Sicilian tyrants , we can remind ourselves that the democratic interludes of Greek history were not merely short but untypical — in Syracuse , Macedon , Cyrene and satrapal Asia Minor one-man rule was normal for much of the period 479–323 BC . |
| 13 | Moreover , those planning a curriculum may find that they proceed not in a linear fashion , but by moving back and forth among the various headings , since these affect one another . |