Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] back [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Ashford said the exams harked back to those of the 1950s when memory was all that mattered and certain sections of right-wing politicians were totally committed to them . |
| 2 | If the essential qualities needed for reinventing health care under Mr Clinton are three — willingness to go back to first principles , faith in political action , and above all , a superhuman command of detail — then Mr Magaziner has spent his whole life in training for his current job . |
| 3 | David Plange added another try for the home side but Widnes fought back with further scores from Bobby Goulding and Stuart Spruce but the Eagles managed to hold on for victory . |
| 4 | Erm on the basis that er we were , when we were setting the , the targets , the time was set by the work study personnel erm and then the operator was able to obtain a trial run on the time given er and if at the end of the work , he was satisfied that he had made the target bonus , or near enough , or if he was satisfied that , given a little extra opportunity to go back onto that job should it come back again in the near future , then he would , he would see clearly that he could make at least fifty percent er which was the target bonus , and probably more . |
| 5 | ‘ And you have no plans to go back into general nursing ? ’ |
| 6 | WORLD champions Germany fought back from 3–0 down for a 3–3 US Cup draw with Brazil in Washington . |
| 7 | you , if there 's any money to come back on that |
| 8 | The present looks back at some great figure of an earlier century and wonders , Was he on our side ? |
| 9 | By 1985 only 5% did so , as the final test , order consolidation and shipping operations moved back to American manufacturing plants . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's a psychological boost to go back on top but we have been there before and we wo n't be getting too carried away . ’ |
| 11 | 38 , 51 , afford a sufficient basis for saying that a party would not be allowed in equity to go back on such a promise . |
| 12 | ‘ My love of English football goes back to 1973 when I was with Leigh . |
| 13 | The company 's interest in pictures goes back to 1976 when it established its Fine Art Foundation to sponsor contemporary ( particularly young ) artists . |
| 14 | This brief period of anecdotal joviality over with , Sutherland goes back into serious actor mode . |
| 15 | My opposition goes back to 1979 and to the work done in the Department of the Environment when I was in it on the production of the 1981 Green Paper . |
| 16 | McRae moved back to sixth but is still nearly four minutes behind the leading Toyota Celica . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't know how he 's got the neck to come back to these parts . ’ |
| 18 | He was back to his best after a series of poor displays and scored a goal as he inspired Lazio to come back from two goals down to snatch a 2-2 draw . |
| 19 | Well I I think I 'll wait for H B F to come back on that one . |
| 20 | During the refurbishment programme the ledgers dating back to 1717 were taken into Archive Department 's collection where they will be looked after professionally , and many objets d'art were temporarily removed from the building for safe-keeping and restoration . |
| 21 | The longcase clock in the hall began its silver chiming and Sally with Hawkins came back with several dusty port bottles . |
| 22 | A young Paul Gascoigne has a torrid time of it at the hands of the opposition in a league football match back in 1989 . |
| 23 | Columns of his own observations of winds , visibility , temperature and cloud-cover fill thick books dating back to 1933 . |
| 24 | Erm , he was , on the first and second day , he was second in class and sixty fifth over all and then he was , the next day he was sec still second in class and fifty fifth over all and then once the prop shaft or something 's broken , yeah I 've got a spare one , but the car came back in one bit so erm , he 's got an interview with T V S next week I think or the week after because erm when Rob lent him something that erm , did his , did a lot of it 's nothing to do with erm , they sponsored him two thousand pounds |
| 25 | Prune grape vines before the sap begins to flow again by cutting all side shoots back to one or two buds . |
| 26 | When in 1961 an Anglo-Kuwaiti accord dating back to 1988 expired , Kuwait became independent . |
| 27 | This epic work is very much Mehra 's creation , the result of an obsession dating back to 1952 , when he decided to make the study of the history of quantum theory his life 's work . |
| 28 | Why should the people of Lambeth be subjected to savage bills because their local authority fails to collect rents , the community charge , and even outstanding rates arrears going back over many years ? |
| 29 | How long can it remain immune as the voices echo back from Eastern Europe ? . |
| 30 | How long can it remain immune as the voices echo back from Eastern Europe ? . |