Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guido was already heading down the corridor towards his own room , but he stopped suddenly and glanced back at her across his shoulder . |
| 2 | Anyway , in the disco we began to quarrel and just after nine we packed it in and went back to the van . |
| 3 | There 's a serious band meeting/liaison and we 're seriously thinking about jacking it in and going back to Blighty until Emma sings the first verse and chorus of ‘ The Show Must Go On ’ by Queen . |
| 4 | Cotterell put his pencil down and rocked back in his chair . |
| 5 | Most was melted down and shipped back to Spain . |
| 6 | Startled by the suddenness of the question , she set her own glass down and stared back at him . |
| 7 | She put the receiver down and went back into the cubicle . |
| 8 | The watcher put the receiver down and went back to his screen . |
| 9 | So , the model is now flying back towards you , into wind , and you have to bring it down , slow it down and get back into the hover position . |
| 10 | They were up and ready for inspection , with the tent down and folded back into a small square by six thirty . |
| 11 | She sat down and leaned back against the rock looking out over the sweep of moorland . |
| 12 | He puts the phone down and looks back at me . |
| 13 | Things that had been yoked , harnessed , held down and held back by a power that was dissolving . |
| 14 | The vehicle details were taken down and reported back to Holbaek immediately . |
| 15 | What was it , six o'clock and come back at nine ? |
| 16 | I told her I would n't be long and went back down the path . |
| 17 | You would see broken cups gathering themselves together and jumping back onto the table . |
| 18 | The street was narrow , cobbled , full of old buildings which were joined together and went back to medieval times . |
| 19 | If you stir enough of them together and stand back for a few hundred million years , the result is likely to be a chemical entity capable of reproducing itself — one of the fundamental differences between living and nonliving material . |
| 20 | It 's exciting ; going back together and going back to a country which hopefully is changing . |
| 21 | Tolkien too might think of the Norse legend of the ‘ Undying Lands ’ , the Odáinsakr : when King Hadding reached its boundary the witch who guided him killed a cock and threw it over the wall — a moment later he heard the cock crow before he himself had to turn away and go back to mortality . |
| 22 | Increasingly worried , Comfort dried Julia 's face as gently as she could , threw the water away and went back to her chair to watch . |
| 23 | ‘ Throw them away and come back with me . ’ |
| 24 | But now , get yourself away and get back on time if you want to get off early tonight . |
| 25 | If you get stuck , just put the map away and go back to it later . |
| 26 | Only a few of the rearmost broke away and escaped back towards Ruthyn . |
| 27 | He parked the car a street away and walked back through a gauntlet of whispers and stony smiles . |
| 28 | He 'd dumped the car a mile away and walked back to his flat , passing less than half a dozen other people along the way . |
| 29 | After giving birth to a child , Watkuweis ran away and journeyed back to her own people . |
| 30 | I pushed my plate away and settled back with the wine . |