Example sentences of "[vb infin] back [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , there must have been a single core-vessel which had lost its way or had lost the use of its warp-vanes so that it could no longer jump back into truespace . |
| 2 | Occasionally , he 'd bounce back on stage and do the whole thing with the strobe lights and everything which sent one poor little girl who had epilepsy into a fit . |
| 3 | ‘ He may yet — if he can win back into favour . ’ |
| 4 | It can just as easily fall back into anti-feminism . |
| 5 | He goes away , rejecting the power he has assumed , hoping the creation will fall back into decay . |
| 6 | ‘ Yeah , ’ Laidlaw replied , letting the curtain fall back into place . |
| 7 | The Doctor let the wall hanging fall back into place , and hurried out , turning down the hall to the bedroom . |
| 8 | He added : ‘ Managers are saying if trade unions at local level are not prepared to sign agreements , management will not pay the Rolls-Royce additional severance payments and would fall back on state money . ’ |
| 9 | They are part of the endeavour to create the balance between ‘ financial strength and creative vitality ’ which Ms Rebuck described as the challenge facing Random House — a ‘ pure ’ trade publisher , which can not fall back on income from professional or reference publishing — when she first took over from Anthony Cheetham 18 months ago . |
| 10 | The method of ‘ verstehen ’ could be quite insufficiently explanatory , or could fall back for explanation on a ( theoretically circular ) ‘ informing spirit ’ . |
| 11 | This gesture obviously displeased Scout because she said ‘ Do n't you touch him ! ’ , kicked the man swiftly with a bare foot and was surprised to see him fall back in pain . |
| 12 | Such difficulties notwithstanding , fibreoptic systems could bring back to Earth some of the telephone communications that are routed through satellite links . |
| 13 | Oh that 's what I did n't bring back from school ! |
| 14 | It 's a place you 'd be happy to leave , unless you 're a Garrimpero who must head back to work . |
| 15 | If , however , a colleague has offered to go along and watch the lesson for you , it may well help if you underline the type of general information you would like back in addition to the notes on the lesson . |
| 16 | As Hill demonstrated , Miltonic ideas which scholars can trace back to antiquity were commonplaces to seventeenth-century radical groups such as the Levellers and Ranters . |
| 17 | No doubt the real celebrations will follow back at home . |
| 18 | ‘ We can not run back to Uncle ! ’ |
| 19 | He will look back at precedent , for he is bound to do so . |
| 20 | The course will also look back at garden history and explore some of the ways in which budding designers can learn from the great designers of the past . |
| 21 | Basingstoke can look back with pride , not only in a record crowd of 4,091 but in extending the reputation of non-League clubs for friendliness . |
| 22 | I can look back with pride on recalling how well I had adapted myself to this trade , and all aspects involved . |
| 23 | She might live to rue this impetuous decision , but at least she 'd never look back with regret on what might have been if only she 'd had the courage to dare . |
| 24 | England will look back with regret on a first half which saw them produce only one score , and that a debatable penalty seven minutes before the interval . |
| 25 | In ten years ’ time , we 'll probably look back with fondness at Drop the Dead Donkey and remember it as being really funny . |
| 26 | Stamfordham , too , could look back with satisfaction on his conduct of negotiations with the party leaders . |
| 27 | And er we had er a very fine teacher then when er I can look back in pleasure when I went to school . |
| 28 | You ca n't look back in football . |
| 29 | Arms races sometimes culminate in extinction , and then a new arms race may begin back at square one . |
| 30 | Blood can not flow back through valve |