Example sentences of "[vb base] back [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Send back up the hierarchy any work which significantly diverts you from the agreed priorities . |
| 2 | Well basically it 's the people , like we get on so well with the English over here and as they say back home the . |
| 3 | Later in the dusk I entertain a perplexed perfecto as I walk back up the hill to the castle , to Schloss Hartheim . |
| 4 | I walk back up the steps and stand in the open doorway with the gun smoking by my side . |
| 5 | I run back up the stairs with the cash . |
| 6 | and like they run down the stairs and run back up the stairs , yeah , and they 're looking out the window out the window and they go why the bloody hell are you always just looking out of windows and he 's going do it your way and I 'll do it mine . |
| 7 | It lies sullenly in our stomachs as we trudge back up the stairs . |
| 8 | We squeeze back out the pub door onto the cold pavement , and stand reeling , like we were belched up by a drunken giant . |
| 9 | In this case the high-frequency waves pass through the medium , are reflected off the specimen and then bounce back up the sapphire rod to the transducer , which converts the returning sound into an electrical signal . |
| 10 | The radar waves bounce back off the cars that approach , and are registered by the receiving apparatus . |
| 11 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 12 | Then I slipped over and did a leisurely backstroke back up the pool . |
| 13 | So next weekend when you come back off the induction you should be fired up , let's see what we 're really gon na to do here yeah . |