Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] back [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a second the wind was blocked and the weight taken from my hands , only to come crashing back in double measure . |
| 2 | And well I , we even considered me and my sister even considered going back into driving instruction . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Peter Alliss reckoned it was probably the end for Ballesteros if he had n't come roaring back by 1992 . |
| 5 | Wings Jeff Hurford and Scott MacKinnon each had a second-half try as Rugby Canada came storming back from 15–0 to 15–13 with outside-half Rob Ross , who provided a penalty and a conversion , just unable to land one more penalty for a long-awaited victory . |
| 6 | At half-time it looked bad for Town but they came bouncing back with two goals in a minute … |
| 7 | 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 ! ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If this involves going back to first principles , then however removed they may be from our present experience , we have a responsibility to go back . |
| 10 | He 'd just stopped going back for more . |
| 11 | Elaine : ‘ Our small baby did n't like lying back like this . ’ |
| 12 | In fact , as an eminent Scottish banker remarked looking back from seven years on , it was remarkable , " after the first surprise and alarm was over , how quietly the country submitted , as they still do , to transact all business by means of bank notes for which the issuers give no specie " . |
| 13 | I could n't face going back to that flat in West Kensington not knowing what to do with my life and having to be pleasant , and not being respected by anyone . |
| 14 | Of course nobody no that 's not fair and then all the time he keeps coming back to this issue . |
| 15 | What I 'd like to do is to help them to see that they do n't need to give up on the computer , that they can actually be the master of it , although of course I do n't I 'm not suggesting that they become programmers — that would be to abdicate their function in another way — but certainly they can understand it , and I think of course it keeps coming back to this issue over and over again , an issue about education . |
| 16 | And er , but I felt and I feel looking back on that particular er decade between nineteen sixty and nineteen seventy , that the work which the shop steward 's movement did er even in a preliminary way , prior to the Donovan Report coming out , was based on reason and fair play . |
| 17 | Instantly , as if it were a bad oyster , Agnes spat my dick out of her mouth and started shrieking back at this loathed adversary of hers — Agnes 's language , it was unimaginable : even I was grossed out by it . |
| 18 | C can we s sorry to keep coming back to this one but I want to leave the A sixty one for the time being . |
| 19 | They keep being written off but they keep bouncing back with this the eighth time they have topped the table this season . |
| 20 | I sat in an armchair with a copy of Punch and pretended to read it , but my eyes kept going back to those lips and that tiny corner of pink tongue and I was in a turmoil . |
| 21 | I can count the number of trout that I have taken from this lovely loch on the fingers of one hand and blank days are the rule , but I keep going back for more . |
| 22 | Time dulls the memory , though , and we keep going back for more . |
| 23 | Keep going back for more and more . |
| 24 | So we 'll have to I think keep going back to these throughout the year and saying , Are we erm are we doing it |
| 25 | People see that as good value for money and keep coming back for more ’ . |
| 26 | The advertisement for the video equivalent of the Mills and Boon novel declares : ‘ Because they 're a branded series , your customers will see one and keep coming back for more ( it may be a new concept in video , but publishers like IPC and Mills and Boon have been doing very nicely on it for years ) ’ ; thus heralding a new departure for the form . |
| 27 | Where they keep coming back like that . |
| 28 | No matter how dismally he fared , he kept coming back for more . |
| 29 | Try thinking back to last night , for a start . |
| 30 | If you have trouble sorting out what your exact goals are , try thinking back to some time in your childhood when you had dreams and aspirations . |