Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The master raconteur looks back at the many amusing moments of his 47-year career at the BBC . |
| 2 | I will want to come back on the same point that 's just been made , but if before I get to that there are some other points that I think I should make in explanation of the lead we have given , if I may call it that , in putting forward the distribution of the Greater York total . |
| 3 | But of course it is nice to come back to the same places over and over again , sort of er see friendly faces . |
| 4 | I have no residual obligation to come back to the same market stall next week . |
| 5 | Spectators gasped in awe at the sight of a ball landing back in the same court . |
| 6 | After days of reflection she decided to write back in the same icy terms Philip had used with her . |
| 7 | Tack into a gap once you have expended about half the time to the start from the buoy , then even if you sail back at the same speed , you can not be early . |
| 8 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 9 | I could n't imagine what she expected to tell them if they all came back on the same day . |
| 10 | She got out of bed and thought everything over very carefully , and although it was difficult to keep emotion out of it , she still came back to the self-same answer . |
| 11 | It came back to the same thing . |
| 12 | He was awarded his first degree by the college where he was now a fellow , spent a year in the United States , and came back to the same college to complete his PhD . |
| 13 | Even more basic , though , was the pressure on a Celtic team playing for their dignity and self respect and who did so in such a convincing manner that all diagnoses of the final result came back to the same conundrum , where does the level of commitment shown against Rangers go when Liam Brady needs it most ? |
| 14 | But after six weeks the colour came back in the same region . |
| 15 | Are they there , I think they 've been er moved back to the same place . |
| 16 | We must make sure we do n't keep on disturbing the seed 's growth by constantly going back to the same people and badgering them . |
| 17 | going back to the same point again |
| 18 | When I 'm at a crossroads , if I find myself going back to the same place I had a happy encounter , I deliberately go the other way , so I do n't become a slave to habit . |
| 19 | In their over-all coverage , therefore Genesis and the tradition represented by Atrakhasis look back to the same events . |
| 20 | De Gaulle 's strident language suggested a fundamentally unsympathetic attitude towards the pieds noirs — an attitude which some have traced back to the latter 's wartime Vichyism , others to the General 's aversion for Mediterranean temperaments or to his incomprehension of the pieds noirs ' " tortured double identity — half French , half Algerian " . |
| 21 | The same applies to the Committee 's use of the term " reality " which , when placed in significant opposition to " convention " , refers back to the same selective cultural parameters . |
| 22 | This determines the level of the water in the cistern so it needs to go back to the same notch |
| 23 | She hated having to scan it in reverse rather than just rewind to go back to the same sequence the girl had been watching when she came in but Jezrael had n't thought to check the counter . |
| 24 | Er if you want to go back to the same people . |
| 25 | Approximately one hour later , they were brought back to the same room and asked to retell the story again . |
| 26 | ‘ I keep coming back to the same point , John . |
| 27 | The majority , the huge majority , were to be shipped back in the same closed trains to the Motherland of Russia . |
| 28 | It will hold all the excess line you are ever likely to need , and its very concept of reeling will preserve the line from those snarls we mentioned earlier , because the line has little option but to reel back in the same form as it was reeled out . |
| 29 | But it will go back to the same position as that ? |
| 30 | Yes , would they go back to the same position , quite right Sarah |