Example sentences of "[v-ing] back [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Love-making 's not easy when you 're driving back from an evening meeting in Cheltenham to reach London by 1.30am and you both have to be up early for work the next day . ’ |
| 2 | Boniface was looking back to an age in which the privileges of the churches of the Anglo-Saxons had been untouched and inviolate , or so it was thought , and he saw this age as ending — as he tells Aethelbald — in the time of Ceolred , king of the Mercians , and Osred , king of the Northumbrians ( both of whose reigns ended in 716 ) , whom Boniface accuses of behaving as Aethelbald was now doing and as a consequence of which they both perished miserably . |
| 3 | Looking back as an ordinary member , it is clear the buying out episode must have been irksome in the extreme and very wearing for a group of unwitting members who volunteered at this point in time to serve the Club and whose prime interest was a round of golf ! |
| 4 | When the twelfth-century bard , Cynddelw , recalled ‘ the clash of Powys … with Oswald ’ , he was looking back on an episode which had considerable significance not only for the Welsh but also for the Mercians . |
| 5 | United came bouncing back with an equaliser at the start of the second half . |
| 6 | There can be no going back to an age when dealing with child abuse was a grave but minor aspect of a child care worker 's caseload , exciting little public interest . |
| 7 | It was like going back to an old friend , familiar and almost cosy . |
| 8 | When I arrived at MGM , I felt like I was going back to an enormous boarding school again . |
| 9 | I want to begin by going back to an argument that Aristotle put forward in the Ethics , since I think that the point at which his argument breaks down can illuminate the nature of the problem some feminist thinking has faced . |
| 10 | It is incredible that the Labour party , which has reformed itself and brought itself up to date in so many other policies , is going back to an old policy on local government finance . |
| 11 | Perhaps it 's the editor of Living Marxism who should think about going back to an educational establishment ? |
| 12 | I 've got out of the way of , I 've often said to Dinda , you know , I would n't mind going back to an open fire in the winter . |
| 13 | I dread going back to an aircraft company . |
| 14 | So do you think you 're inventing your own tradition , which is a perfectly time honoured and respectable thing to do , or do you think you 're harking back to an old tradition or or what ? |
| 15 | WHEN Ronnie Moran was first thrust into the Liverpool manager 's chair 14 months ago , the team he inherited from Kenny Dalglish proceeded to lose three successive matches before getting back on an even keel to prepare for the arrival of Graeme Souness . |
| 16 | A delicately ludicrous picture comes into Howard 's mind of an enthusiastic little hiker with a rucksack on his back , trying to walk up the side of the Matterhorn , and tumbling back with an astonished look on his face . |
| 17 | Another , more startling , departure was the introduction of regular team talks , the idea for which came on a train travelling back from an away match . |
| 18 | When there is no longer the contrast of a busy working day outside , coming back to an empty home can be less attractive , as shown in the situation described below . |
| 19 | Oh , this coming back to an empty house , Rupert thought , when he had seen her safely up to her door . |
| 20 | Erm coming back to an original comment made by Mr . |
| 21 | And what a disaster : Arnold had 48 going out and 39 coming back for an 87 . |
| 22 | Pompey take some beating … they proved that on saturday by coming back with an equaliser within two minutes a first for their new striker Lee Chapman … |
| 23 | Pompey take some beating … they proved that on saturday by coming back with an equaliser within two minutes a first for their new striker Lee Chapman … |
| 24 | He even named the Government Chief Whip , Mr Tim Renton , and the party chairman , Mr Kenneth Baker , as Waddington allies who ‘ saw the danger ( but ) failed to prevent such a folly ’ which , Mr Tebbit argued , was in danger of handing back to an opportunist Labour Party the very ‘ key group of voters whose support is vital for a fourth election victory ’ — by implication Tory populists sensitive to what he called ‘ being swamped by people of different culture , history and religion ’ . |
| 25 | It favoured a more voluntaristic conception of human action — a need to see human beings fighting back against an oppressive state , and capable of making things happen . |
| 26 | Those failing to take themselves through such graded stress inoculation may be reduced to falling back on an all-or-none defence mechanism in which awareness of the stressful event is completely blocked out , or is experienced in overwhelming intensity . |
| 27 | It may be useful at this point to suggest , following Halliday and Hasan , that there is a continuum of cohesive elements that may be used for referring back to an entity already mentioned in the discourse . |
| 28 | On the subject … and referring back to an earlier posting … |
| 29 | When his militiamen had stormed onto the Jiyeh coast road and killed the remaining Phalangist defenders there in 1985 , I found Walid leaning back in an old wooden chair in one of his palace reception rooms , swigging from a bottle of frozen Czech lager and lamenting the moral improprieties of war . |