Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] back [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He reached in with both hands , only to shrink back in horror when he encountered something cold and clammy beneath his hand . |
| 5 | My resolve not to go back into education hardened , if anything , rather than softened , as I became more and more determined that the sacrifice I had made was not going to be in vain . |
| 6 | Just to come back to Councillor point . |
| 7 | I told him about taking six months off and doing rep in the provinces just to get back in touch with live acting and live audiences and he reacted as if I told him I 'd had a mental breakdown . |
| 8 | Like the couple who left one of the rides early to get back in time to prepare the evening event ; and two hours later we met them — riding in the opposite direction ! |
| 9 | Longing now to jump back on board , Mungo watched as the mighty engine woke from its doze and heaved itself back to wakefulness with huge , slow piston strokes . |
| 10 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |
| 11 | The object is to train a bird to fly free , but then to come back for food . |
| 12 | Roger Hardman of broking house James Capel reckons the smaller company is about to come back into fashion in a very big way . |
| 13 | Well , I did keep pressing the Program/Channel button instead of the program decrement button , which puts the TriAxis into MIDI Channel mode and I could n't immediately work out how to get back to Program mode . |
| 14 | England battled hard to get back into contention throughout the second half , but the Scots kept them at arm 's length and ran out worthy winners . |
| 15 | going , but I 'm , I 'm just , I 'm trying to think of how I 'm gon na get myself motivated again to get back to work |
| 16 | I pinned it to the corkboard with a red drawing pin and a light heart , and went upstairs again to change back into jodhpur boots to deal with the terrain and to pick up the map and the compass in case I could n't find the trail . |