Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] back [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the shepherd eventually limped back to civilisation and told his unlikely tale , the authorities located the treasure and imprisoned the shepherd for theft . |
| 2 | At first they talked easily about David 's chances of demobilisation , and the kind of law he would practise when he eventually got back to London , and his prospects of fighting a reasonably safe seat at the next General Election , but inevitably that led on to Julia 's plans . |
| 3 | The director duly reported back to base camp that Douglas had rejected every concession he had made in order to get him to accept the part . |
| 4 | Captain Lawton and his men seem to have had a fairly trouble-free time of it , because all 15 of them were duly discharged back in London after the seven-month voyage . |
| 5 | The baby was strong enough to go back to Riverstown with a monthly nurse after six weeks and he was duly baptized a Protestant in the Church of Ireland in Naas . |
| 6 | We then elected to stay on and opened up those two houses ( Bombay Burma ) for thirty officers who had been turned out of hospital from the fighting lower down , and Pop opened up St Michael 's school for about eighty soldiers until they were fit enough to go back to duty . |
| 7 | One of his greatest knocks was the 143 at Port-of-Spain in 1968 — this after he had reached breaking-point in 1966 , only to come back with century after century in the 1967 Tests — but he still found touring the Caribbean a fairly distasteful affair , as revealed in his letter to his wife : ‘ We 're being taken for the biggest ride … the umpiring , the crowd and Charlie … it is downright cheating … |
| 8 | Royal Gait 's Flat career was then plagued with leg trouble and he was eventually sent to stud only to come back into training three years later . |
| 9 | Nicholas says his delayed return — he was released last Novemebr , but only came back to Britain a fortnight ago — was due to difficulties in getting back his passport from the Goan authorities . |
| 10 | But er I was away for a week there , I only came back on Saturday . |
| 11 | The girl who had shown her in turned back to Folly with the question on her lips . |
| 12 | Quickly they finished , and left , severally going back to No. 43 . |
| 13 | He reached in with both hands , only to shrink back in horror when he encountered something cold and clammy beneath his hand . |
| 14 | But if the Franks were the dominant partner it is difficult to explain why so much material should have been channelled towards England with little apparently going back in return . |
| 15 | ‘ I realised if I wanted to get back to where I had been , it was perhaps better going back to North and starting off there again . ’ |
| 16 | He only arrived back in England on Tuesday from his sunny Tenerife training camp . |
| 17 | You may be written off as a malingerer or a neurotic or , perhaps even worse , as someone who must be gently humoured back to health . |
| 18 | It 's a long drive back to London , so perhaps we should be on our way . ’ |
| 19 | But he was secure in his alibi , having spent the whole of the previous day in the Crown Court and the evening and night with friends at Norwich , only getting back to Chevisham in time for a late start that morning . |
| 20 | Of course the Korg A2 is the heart of the system and the real subject of this review , so getting back on track I 'll get into what Korg have managed to put together . |
| 21 | So get back to work , stream down those torch beams , work overtime , burn the candle at both ends , slog on when I 'm asleep , and remember , I 'm supporting you . |
| 22 | So get back to nature , try alternatives to conventional toiletries and techniques , and discover some New Age solutions to your health and beauty problems . |
| 23 | The swimming section was more or less brought back to mind to me the other day when they showed the old Stoke bathing place . |
| 24 | Kevin O'Neil suddenly arrived back at Ballytreabhair — ‘ for a wee holiday ’ he explained to his mother . |
| 25 | The historian-punter would be sitting in bonds ( which have rallied in the past few months ) waiting patiently to switch back to equities , starting cautiously in the middle of this year , and so to ride the bull market of the mid-1990s . |
| 26 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 27 | But since he was too weak to travel , it was arranged that he would come and stay with my husband and I until he was fit enough to fly back to Jersey where he and my mother lived . |
| 28 | The hospitaller suddenly stepped back in panic as the bear sprang into life , towering above him , its great paws clawing the air . |
| 29 | And as for now , you 'd better go back with Fiona . |
| 30 | Well er watch how you go you 'd better go back to bed now I suppose . |