Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he above is a representative of the general tone of the interview which constantly referred back to the suspiciously ‘ instant ’ political aspects of the band . |
| 2 | Looking back on the almost thirty-year-long era of the series , one does not automatically think of these essential mammerial features of the femme fatale when talking about Miss Sims . |
| 3 | He twirled about , looking back down the dimly lit corridor . |
| 4 | And then I came back on the forth to start off with the stocktaking which is not on the agenda I think . |
| 5 | Coburn wrote his first four part storyline in two sections , starting with the quest for fire plot , which he named ‘ The Tribe of Gum ’ before going back to the very first episode , which had to be a more collaborative effort with the Script-Editor and the Producers . |
| 6 | Well going back to the very first meeting that we had |
| 7 | Now going back to the maybe |
| 8 | Describing a large circle , she arrived back at the hastily abandoned camp , heart racing and a huge grin on her face . |
| 9 | I turned to look back at the softly gleaming , parallel surfaces converging towards an oblong of dimly lit structures , an oblong much taller and narrower than any doorway . |
| 10 | Flinging off her dressing-gown , she climbed back into the now cold bed and snuggled beneath the covers . |
| 11 | This of course harks back to the much older debate about whether memories can be localized — something I 'll come back to later , ; much of the next two chapters will be taken up with the question of the localization of memory in space and time . |
| 12 | ( Look back to the supposedly liberalising 1981 Contempt of Court Act and ask yourself whether its parliamentary proponents intended the general outcome that Lord Donaldson now proclaims ) . |
| 13 | ( Look back to the supposedly liberalising 1981 Contempt of Court Act and ask yourself whether its parliamentary proponents intended the general outcome that Lord Donaldson now proclaims ) . |
| 14 | A schoolmasterly exposition of the law : Andrew Brown sat in on a High Court trial — and was transported back to the strangely mingled fears and absurdities of a prep-school |
| 15 | And when you get back to the There we are . |
| 16 | But despite flying back to the more forgiving climate of Cairns , his fever showed no signs of leaving him . |
| 17 | I was flying back on the 9am British Airways shuttle from the EC Summit on Saturday morning . |
| 18 | As the black lines creep back through the newly faced walls |
| 19 | For in a few days , this same man would be reporting back to the most feared woman in Britain . |
| 20 | Will Douglas ordered Scott of Rankilburn to go back to the now blazing village , the cottage thatches burning readily , and round up a crowd of men , women and children . |
| 21 | She glanced at him , noticing that he was staring back through the partly open door of the study . |
| 22 | We were driven back through the nearly empty streets . |
| 23 | The last ten days gradually it has been coming back since the really trough period in late January with the war and the snow , etc. , and in fact this week erm we 're expecting this week to probably do double the level of bookings that we did last week , and that 's on overseas holidays for summer and winter . |
| 24 | The old guard hit back at the newly formed , broad-based Union of Democratic Forces , which is organising tomorrow 's demonstrations . |
| 25 | After the war Attlee went back to the more responsible system . |
| 26 | Rain and Oliver went back down the badly lit stairs . |
| 27 | She looked back over the recently written unsatisfactory pages of her book , and there was no doubt that her mind must have been tired . |
| 28 | His policies looked back to the more aggressive activities of his father ; he fought the Alans , and he attacked Arles . |
| 29 | Sucking in a deep lungful of smoke , he looked back at the fiercely blazing funeral pyre for the first time . |
| 30 | Ignoring this , the present Government has cut back on the already poorly resourced Youth Training and Employment Training programme . |