Example sentences of "[verb] back [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already , on the side nearest the river , Osbern had reformed his men and was driving back again at a different angle . |
| 2 | well from the rough of off road racing we 're driving back on to the fairways for the start of our action round up this week … for a success story from the Broome Manor club at swindon … |
| 3 | The analysts have now downgraded their inflation forecasts for the rest of this year , but many are still expecting the underlying rate to creep back up to the top of the Chancellor 's target range of 4 per cent and above this summer . |
| 4 | He felt for a pulse then , letting the gunman 's arm drop , he holstered the Browning before walking back slowly towards the doors . |
| 5 | On walking back home from the church , I found myself thinking very deeply about what I had let myself in for , but foremost what my wife would say , I seem to recall something like ‘ I suppose that 's my lace bobbins even further down the work sheet . ’ |
| 6 | The shriek that went up as she sank back on to a wicker sofa drumming her heels on the ground and yelling and shouting that she wished he were dead , and that she 'd been dishonoured , made him quite alarmed . |
| 7 | Such round , smooth shapes are the perfect foil to the railway sleepers that are used as informal steps down to the lowest level of all , a curved brick paved sitting area that looks back up towards the house . |
| 8 | ‘ The Keys of Marinus ’ is the one story for Doctor Who Cusick looks back on with a shudder . |
| 9 | Like most of his music , it looks back fondly to a golden age , but it does so creatively and with vitality . |
| 10 | In this programme , Stanley , at the age of 88 , looks back fondly to a time when he was , unquestionably , Champion of the World . |
| 11 | They both staggered back out into the corridor . |
| 12 | I peered back ruminatively into the pen . |
| 13 | Our other major domestic market , the distilling industry has come back strongly from the low levels of production of the early 1980s and appears full of optimism , if the huge rise in the share prices of quoted distilling companies is a fair yardstick . |
| 14 | ‘ Years ago we threw the old didacticism ( dowdy morality ) out of the window ; it has come back in at the door wearing modern dress ( smart values ) and we do not even recognize it ’ ( p. 159 ) . |
| 15 | The patient improves for a time , say an hour or more , then either stops getting better and the picture becomes more or less static , or begins to slip back again with the same symptoms . |
| 16 | The Doctor followed the narrow road down through a small valley , before climbing back up towards a bare hilltop where he could make out a number of tiny wooden crosses , like a forest of lifeless bonsai trees . |
| 17 | There seemed nothing at all , no way of climbing back on to the free wheel of conversation they had somehow set going the other night . |
| 18 | Both sides have a point to prove Saints that they can bounce back quickly from the Bradford disappointment ; Leeds that they are on a consistent run of wins . |
| 19 | South West bounced back again with a try from Jeremy Guscott and completed their triumph with a Jon Webb penalty . |
| 20 | Mathers span the wheel with the heel of his hand and they bounced back on to the approach road . |
| 21 | There was a thump as the lorry hit the bank , heeled over , and then bounced back on to the lane . |
| 22 | The unchallenged winner of the wooden spoon after putting England in on Thursday , he bounced back yesterday with an innings of magnificent irresponsibility . |
| 23 | The skill of the lawyer existed in ensuring that the relationship between the statements in his legal discourse was such that it would lead to a legal outcome which would translate back directly into the outcome chosen by the client as formulated in his or her own , non-legal discourse . |
| 24 | The Borderers , coached by Jim Telfer , beat Glasgow High/Kelvinside 27–16 at the Greenyards in their final game to win the major championship and hold off Edinburgh Academicals ' challenge , Kelso , relegated last season , moved back up to the first division . |
| 25 | The Olympic 800 metres finalist moved back up to the 1500 metres where he first made his name as a junior and led from gun to tape to win in 3 mins 39.58 secs . |
| 26 | He worked the slide as quietly as he could , chambering a round , then he moved back out into the sitting room towards the door . |
| 27 | As Lucy moved back out into the passageway , she met the returning tide from the last ensemble number onstage ; they arrived in a rush , panting like horses and shedding their quasi-military costumes as they moved . |
| 28 | When the first frosts came he moved back down to the village . |
| 29 | She sagged back on to the ground again . |
| 30 | Cameron and Menzies were squeezed back nearly into the house , and big Mary , finding herself hard up against Menzies , took his arm , cleared a space with a sideways butt of her hip , and twirled once round with him . |