Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] back [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't want to go back under controlled circumstances , ’ he explained , ‘ I wanted to get on . |
| 2 | Does my right hon. Friend mean that British industrialists do not want to go back to national plans , solemn and binding undertakings , high inflation , nationalisation , high taxation and trade union unrest ? |
| 3 | ‘ You do n't want to go back to Red Cottage ? ’ |
| 4 | For a second the wind was blocked and the weight taken from my hands , only to come crashing back in double measure . |
| 5 | The problems are not all one-sided , however , as it may be that a supplier of equipment or software has to fall back on contractual remedies . |
| 6 | He carries only nine pounds more than in 1992 and despite being plagued by a wind problem since that success , has come back in great style after being ‘ tubed . ’ |
| 7 | And well I , we even considered me and my sister even considered going back into driving instruction . |
| 8 | She also maintains she would never consider going back to full-time employment and advised other women with good business ideas to ‘ go for it ’ . |
| 9 | Sometimes , when writing we repeat a word unknowingly and when we read it again we recognise that our pen has slipped back over old ground : we have not found the right word . |
| 10 | A YOUNG soccer star has battled back from serious injury to the brink of major success . |
| 11 | SINEAD O'CONNOR 's record label Chrysalis has hit back at tabloid criticism of the sleeve of her current single ‘ Success Has Made A Failure Of Our Home ’ . |
| 12 | Puccini : A celebration Andrew Parrott with his Taverner Consort , Choir and Players has gone back to medieval sources , and devised a sequence not just of carols in more robust settings than is common but of instrumental pieces like the March of the Kings . |
| 13 | I ca n't wait to get back to detached , I 'll go back into some big hi-fi ! |
| 14 | ‘ I want to get back to normal again . ’ |
| 15 | I want to get back to good performances . |
| 16 | But I can strive to get back to normal . |
| 17 | He had read the script of Five Easy Pieces , whose title , it did not need a genius to work out , was designed to link back to Easy Rider ( though there were no physical connections whatsoever , apart from Nicholson himself , and the thematic stance of Easy Rider . ) |
| 18 | Their Hedgerow Renovation Scheme is designed to bring back into good management selected hedgerows that are in poor condition , over- grown , gappy , thin or neglected , but which are capable of restoration . |
| 19 | And yet there was something so powerfully rebuking , and at the same time so unassailable about his figure looming over them that Mr Charles 's two drunken companions seemed to cower back like small boys caught by the farmer in the act of stealing apples . |
| 20 | Like a pebble in a well-shaft , the words fell into the void and then came rushing back from invisible walls , echoing above the roar of the water : ‘ it is death … is death … is death ! ’ |
| 21 | And came running back in stark terror a few minutes later as if all the hounds of hell were after him , and Preston , who thought they were , a half-length behind all the way back to the alley behind their two houses where they stopped to get their breath back before they went in . |
| 22 | Er , she explained to me a case she had analyzed where she , Anna Freud , was quite certain that some of the symptoms of the woman she was analyzing went back to infantile masturbation . |
| 23 | I 'd like to go back to fucking Monday night . |
| 24 | I can also report to congress that at last there are some signs at long last of some kind of recovery in the building materials industry very early days yet but some companies are actually beginning to go back to full-time working and in one or two cases are actually starting to take on additional , er , employees . |
| 25 | Nevertheless Stavrogin does contemplate suicide , and the notebook entry ‘ to be or not to be ’ bears the date 16 August , so it belongs to the summer when the ‘ tendentious ’ political story gets tugged back into great-sinner orbit , growing physically and imaginatively larger and more formidable all the time . |
| 26 | There is a kind of feedback into the black community : stories about going for a job , getting turned down and explaining the failure as caused by being black get fed back to other blacks and so nourish conceptions about the structure of society . |
| 27 | However the fossils can also be reinterpreted to fit back into old phyla : |
| 28 | By the time of the Restoration in 1660 , the country was beginning to get back to normal . |
| 29 | A neighbouring school may decide to cut back on special needs provision or transport to the swimming baths or some other expensive provision and an influx of recruits from that school may be looking to you to pick up the bills . |
| 30 | Next morning over breakfast I decide to go back into Þingeyri to catch a plane back to Ísafjöđ3ur in the hope that I can get a boat or bus from there . |