Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] back [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The needle moves to its usual place but does not stay there ; it slowly drops back to zero . |
| 2 | Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe . |
| 3 | A Formalist/Prague School approach thus necessarily projects back onto earlier literature the aesthetic standards peculiar to the modern age . |
| 4 | Universal suffrage in Britain dates only from after the Great War and the right for non-property holders to participate in local elections only dates back to 1949 . |
| 5 | A field where the sign no longer refers back to real objects or persons but instead constructs what is to be perceived within the system of signification . |
| 6 | But Trogus soon falls back into imaginary history when he tells the episode of the chieftain Catumarandus , who had been persuaded in a dream by a goddess to make peace with Massalia . |
| 7 | The shake table always moves back to zero . ’ |
| 8 | Fuck her and they slap her and she still comes back for more . |
| 9 | Your Mum 's a , and I fuck her and I slap her and I and she still comes back for more . |
| 10 | A specialist in failure analysis in that unit is Tony Jones , whose involvement in AIB investigations also goes back over many years . |
| 11 | Now erm all this really goes back to eighteen seventy one . |
| 12 | Diana now looks back on those days at Coleherne Court as the happiest time of her life . |
| 13 | ‘ The citizenship law we have now harks back to another era , ’ one CDU official said . |
| 14 | This despair frequently relates back to early experiences when adults were literally more powerful than children and were therefore blamed by those children for some of the awful things , real or imaginary , that happened to them . |
| 15 | She then immediately switches back to Creole to " link up " with the first part of her turn . |
| 16 | The air , thus refreshed , rises to the top of the nest and then circulates back down other passageways . |
| 17 | Bourner and Hamed ( 1987 ) in their study of CNM graduates have reported that degree performance improves with age until students reach the age of about 40 and then declines back towards that of younger students . |
| 18 | The accusation that poststructuralism neglects history undoubtedly harks back above all to the work of Althusser who , more than anyone else , appears to have attempted to eliminate history . |
| 19 | Sam starts humming the riff from ‘ Caroline ’ with a fondness that nine years ' respite should have erased , and then snaps back into historical mode . |
| 20 | Sandra takes the compliment gracefully , then moves back to those magazine fantasies . |