Example sentences of "[vb infin] back and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could glance back and see him , bobbing his way through a sea of heads . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's about time England adopted the attitude of : Why make Gazza track back and defend , when we could have other players to do that and let Gazza do what he 's good at . |
| 3 | No sooner does it fall back and hit the water than the whale flicks it into the air again with a blow of its tail or seizes it with its jaws and thrashes it on the water . |
| 4 | I was just wondering , having reached my seat , whether I could whip back and tell him to belt it out a bit , when it stopped altogether . |
| 5 | As a good leader should , his father was making sure that no one was left in its path ; that no man , taking a last wistful thought to a neglected fishing-boat or a skiff or a hoard of nets he had forgotten , should dash back and drown for his folly . |
| 6 | And we 'll see what they have to say and if you feel so moved you can ring back and shout at them Katherine . |
| 7 | ‘ Will you ring back and tell Bagshot to keep him there , stall him somehow . ’ |
| 8 | Two hours later , they would dutifully file back and recommence production . |
| 9 | However it was all in a good cause and , like a lot of these things , fun when you left off and could look back and laugh . |
| 10 | As described in Section 3.3 , if it is possible for real particles to pass through them , then it will be possible for those particles to subsequently look back and observe the naked singularity in region IV . |
| 11 | At the bad moments do n't look back and think , Well at least I 'm a major in the British Army . |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't look back and say , ‘ hey , maybe I should have stayed at school ’ . |
| 13 | On the subject of predictions , and while the Prime Minister reflects today on the gloomy report by the Confederation of British Industry , does he recall on new year 's day this year saying on Radio 4 that in retrospect , we would look back and say that the economic recovery had already started ? |
| 14 | You can always look back and say " What if " , but we must remember that we got ourselves out of a couple of scrapes on last two days and for a time we looked absolutely terrible , but we turned it around and could have won . |
| 15 | But people will look back and say this speech started the process . ’ |
| 16 | But people will look back and say this speech started the process . ’ |
| 17 | I suspect that in another hundred years ' time people will look back and wonder at our apparent inability to regard sound recordings as permanent media , like books , music , or paintings . |
| 18 | ‘ We can all look back and remember how Amstrad took hi-fi to the mass market , how it removed the mystique from the computer and exploded the market . ’ |
| 19 | But like every artist , one can always look back and see where things could have been improved . |
| 20 | The big advantage we 've got over bands from the '60s and '70s is we can look back and see the exact point at which they all turned shit — and we 're not going to make the same mistake ! ’ |
| 21 | And maybe in a few years people will look back and see the things that we tried to do , and hopefully respect them . ’ |
| 22 | Later , his parents would look back and see this moment as an early warning of the nightmare that was to consume them . |
| 23 | What we have here is , is a huge sheet of this material on the wall , and the visitors stand in front of this and press a flashlight which allows them then to make all sorts of poses on the wall , and as they then move away , their shadow is left on the wall so they can look back and see what their , their shadow was like in the pose . |
| 24 | This year just under 100 students will receive their first degrees at Stirling and Chief Careers Advisor Walter Abbott , who retires this summer , can look back and take pride in the fact that he and his small team in the careers office have had the opportunity to help prepare 16,000 students for ‘ life after Uni ’ during the 24 years that Walter has been here and seen the University grow . |
| 25 | As soon as a fly-half passes , he should drop back and prepare to loop , or take an inside pass . |
| 26 | Ellwood 's technique was to let them stay about five vehicles ahead , but now and then he 'd drop back and let them fall out of sight . |
| 27 | You could then lean back and pick up the front foot , thrusting it straight into the opponent 's solar plexus . |
| 28 | If we could all step back and watch ourselves in our daily lives , we might all learn a great deal — and with some effort , we could all no doubt be nicer , more attractive people . |
| 29 | At this point , we might step back and attempt some conceptual clarification from other angles . |
| 30 | ‘ Being dropped meant we could step back and reassess what we were doing . |