Example sentences of "[to-vb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The green man was flashing and we were crossing it and it just li I had to jump back onto the pavement ! |
| 2 | Headward erosion is rapid at this point and regrading of the river starts to work back from the mouth . |
| 3 | But costly turnovers allowed Washington to creep back into the game , despite the dominance of the Cowboys defence . |
| 4 | how had Patrick managed to creep back into the house ? |
| 5 | The maid would have to be dismissed of course … the girl had brazenly admitted allowing Patrick back into the house , and Katherine was n't sure which annoyed her more — the fact that the boy had managed to creep back into the house or the fact that he had been alone in the girl 's bedroom . |
| 6 | In the intervening decades , there was ‘ a general trend toward spectator civility ’ ( Talamini , 1987:66 ) , only for aspects of disorder to creep back into the sport by the 1970s . |
| 7 | Her first instinct had been to creep back to the familiar haven of her room , but now Chesarynth could n't face its bright emptiness . |
| 8 | We do not want to creep back to the economy that we had when Labour ran the country . |
| 9 | ‘ I think I 'll be able to 'op back to the bedroom by meself , ’ said Dolly . |
| 10 | And the easiest way to escape is just to slip back into the cockpit of a racing car . |
| 11 | ‘ Let's go and find the bastards , ’ Sharpe grunted , and once he had said it he marvelled at how easy it was to slip back into the old ways of speaking about the enemy . |
| 12 | It was frightening , how easy it was to slip back into the past . |
| 13 | The yanks were itching to see the pop conquerors of late '89 , but a series of postponed tours and a lack of vinyl has seriously affected the Roses ' US invasion potential — not that they care , preferring to slip back into the easy pace of their pre-fuss lifestyle . |
| 14 | He was unhappy there but , determined not to slip back into the pits where his grandfather had wielded a pick , worked hard and won scholarships both to Jesus College , Oxford , and the University College of Aberystwyth . |
| 15 | They did n't have any money either at this point , so to get them out , I had to slip back into the States without anybody knowing and sell off everything we owned — all the furniture and household stuff . |
| 16 | The yanks were itching to see the pop conquerors of late '89 , but a series of postponed tours and a lack of vinyl has seriously affected the Roses ' US invasion potential — not that they care , preferring to slip back into the easy pace of their pre-fuss lifestyle . |
| 17 | The verbal instructions are important — they will act as reminders in the days following the lesson and help the pupil to inhibit his natural tendency to slip back into the old habits . |
| 18 | Eighteen months later , in March 1944 , at a second Chinese-sponsored conference at Liuchow , Ho had not only managed to slip back under the nationalist umbrella of the Dong Minh Hoi but , as one of its representatives , was named as a member of a Provisional Government which was expecting to enter Vietnam in the wake of the ‘ liberating ’ Chinese armies . |
| 19 | When the tide turned , we all had to struggle back to the large Irrawaddy steamer again . |
| 20 | Thus Eikmeyer 's network prompts the re-evaluation of the Co-operative Principle concept in terms of text variations from a prototypical case , matched by readers ' efforts to process back towards the centre by finding coherence . |
| 21 | Here he was able to stand back from the onrush of western man and ask himself the real questions of life and meaning ; get his young life , full and successful as it had been , into perspective . |
| 22 | The latter allows both parties a chance to stand back from the daily routine and take a harder look at overall performance . |
| 23 | In practice it is not always easy to stand back from the mass of information and choose a main message and a few submessages . |
| 24 | Only by trying to stand back from the daily grind and reviewing one 's long term goals can such opposition be slowly undermined . |
| 25 | By reacting in this way , Jane is able to stand back from the situation and it can not hurt her as it used to do . |
| 26 | Another type of chart helps parents begin to stand back from the emotional reactions they have and see what is happening with their child . |
| 27 | We had to stand back from the edge of the pavement as their wheels splashed along the teeming gutters . |
| 28 | That demanded constant attention , and yet the Prime Minister must also be able to stand back from the pressure of events and think about the future . |
| 29 | Error comes in if one over-interprets the relevance of these conclusions , by forgetting the artificial constraints of the experiment and instead assuming that in real life , outside the laboratory so to say , such changes involving only a single variable can actually take place ; that it is a simple matter to extrapolate back from the artificiality of laboratory isolation to the complex , rich interconnectedness of the real world . |
| 30 | Even in daylight it had a sombre , suspicious air as if it wished to slink back from the adjoining houses . |