Example sentences of "[verb] back on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this , the third issue of Update devoted to general SVQs , we also report back on the seminars held recently for external verifiers and for centre co-ordinators from new piloting centres . |
| 2 | Tens of thousands were reported back on the streets in Timisoara yesterday , defying a state of emergency , a curfew , and a ban on assembly of more than five persons imposed on the region . |
| 3 | ‘ However well acted and directed they are , Americans find they hold back on the emotions . |
| 4 | Looking back on the elements I have enumerated — of change , internationalism and achievement — I do not find it so surprising that I chose an industrial career , although I knew nothing of all this when I joined ICI . |
| 5 | Thus County Armagh Free Presbyterians , looking back on the explosives cases and the charges laid against Free Presbyterians , recollected that far from supposing these people might be guilty and hence in need of church discipline , they assumed their innocence and believed that the charges were just another part of the plot to discredit Paisleyism . |
| 6 | Erm looking back on the photographs . |
| 7 | It was rather pathetic , like an ageing colonel looking back on the days of Empire . |
| 8 | ‘ Honestly , ’ she said in her normal tones , lying back on the cushions . |
| 9 | Frank was lying back on the pillows with his eyes closed . |
| 10 | He smiled fondly at the girl as he spoke , and Paulette , who in truth was very pretty , blew him a kiss before lying back on the pillows . |
| 11 | Now , in the light of a bedside lamp , he could see Marius Steen Lying back on the pillows asleep . |
| 12 | Now , if you lie back on the cushions , I 'll just hook you up to an enhancement device so we can share the experience . ’ |
| 13 | In the light of this , it is worth noting that Article B of the Maastricht Treaty states that one of the objectives of the Union would be to maintain in full the ‘ acquis communautaire ’ , and build on it , which implies that there is to be no going back on the matters already governed by Community law . |
| 14 | ‘ I have no rational ground for going back on the arguments that convinced me of God 's existence : but the irrational deadweight of my old sceptical habits , and the spirit of the age , and the cares of the day , steal away all my lively feeling of the truth , and often when I pray I wonder if I am not posting letters to a non-existent address . ’ |
| 15 | You 've got to watch that you see , did it revolve back on the children . |
| 16 | MICHAEL THOMAS will be handed the chance to set his Liverpool career back on the rails this weekend . |
| 17 | The shabby room above the tobacconist 's shop where we held our ward meetings became home to me and , in a queer way , made me feel whole and integrated again so that I began to look back on the activities I had taken part in with Sophie as some kind of mental aberration . |
| 18 | Thomas could now look back on the papers he had begun , or completed and sold in his first two terms , as ‘ vain stuff ’ but he continued to write verses , which were sent to Harry and Helen . |
| 19 | Look back on the activities you have enjoyed in the past and select one to develop . |
| 20 | Many of the beaches were almost deserted in my early childhood , and to walk on a newly washed shore as the tide receded , and look back on the footsteps in the shining sand was a delight . |
| 21 | And now I look back on the years I wasted on the building sites and I should 've become a policeman ea a lot earlier cos it 's great fun . |
| 22 | But our Key Person policy compensated us , which kept our backers and creditors happy , and eventually we managed to recruit new people , reorganise and get back on the rails again . ’ |
| 23 | Do n't lean back on the chairs . |
| 24 | It 's like it 's it was a you know it 's been and still is an experience you know it 's sort of n none of us almost you know we we do n't realize it 's happening and you know you like back on the minutes of . |
| 25 | How much of the discussion was given over to reporting back on the perceptions of others including children ? |
| 26 | To actually just sit back on the hands , as the government are doing , is not a policy , it 's an abdication of responsibility . |
| 27 | To enable researchers to report back on the results of recently completed research in the Scottish courts to an invited audience comprising the various branches of the legal profession , policy makers concerned with the administration of justice , pressure group and voluntary organisations and to stimulate an informed discussion of key findings . |
| 28 | Insecure Christian men feeling threatened have fallen back on the Scriptures with authoritarian tunnel vision , while Christian women are learning Greek and Hebrew in order to find a loophole to invalidate this ‘ yoke of bondage ’ . |
| 29 | He had a high-rolling joint on the SS Nocturne , a ship anchored outside the limits , and some nasty rumours had floated back on the tides along with a well-dressed corpse or two . |
| 30 | ‘ You 'll be able to go back on the streets , ’ she said . |