Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb -s] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the United States it dates back at least to the Civil War ; the 1949 John Ford-John Wayne movie , ‘ She Wore a Yellow Ribbon ’ , underscores the practice 's lineage . |
| 2 | In anger she swims back to the landing-stage where he sits , his feet dangling in the water . |
| 3 | But before this repartee develops into a full cross-talk patter she turns back to me and shrugs . |
| 4 | As I calmly shut the door he cringes back against the wall . |
| 5 | with the vein 's with the valves in everywhere , yes , it 's because they 've got to somehow or other , you 've got to somehow or other get the blood back up to the heart again , it 's not under pressure is it any more , cos it 's lost a lot of its pressure and the way it gets back to the heart of course that is it 's lying alongside the bones and the arteries and as you 're walking around , okay , the arteries are still having the pressure working , the muscles are still working and the vein lies next to it and the blood is able to be milked up , it 's milked back up to a non return valve , that shuts off and it ca n't drop back down any further and the next bit does the next bit up , okay , and then that shuts off and eventually it gets back to the heart and the capillaries what will that look like when it 's bleeding ? |
| 6 | It is possible to install an over-large CHP unit and sell the excess electricity it generates back to the grid . |
| 7 | A fairly long , extremely active and relatively well-documented royal life like that of Charles the Bald can serve modern students as a thread through the maze of complex power-relations , and at the same time it leads back to the heart of events . |
| 8 | In the case of women 's speech it goes back to antiquity , and its legacy has proved hard to get rid of . |