Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun] [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was keen to tell everyone the Great News about my dad coming back to life to expose Christianity . |
| 2 | ‘ I think what I 'm asking for a pair of shoes is fair enough though I am keeping the prices low as an incentive for my customers to come back for more . ’ |
| 3 | It always took some time after her departure to get back into the old routine again … into the old pleasant routine . |
| 4 | As London got nearer his confidence trickled back . |
| 5 | ‘ She tried to spin me a yarn about her husband going back to Poland on holiday in 1950 and being killed in a car crash . |
| 6 | At the other end , Charity smiled and waited for her listeners to come back to her . |
| 7 | She had no man to go for her — her husband was away travelling , too — so she waited for her brother to get back . ’ |
| 8 | When she visited the hostels and goodwill centres or was out on the soup run distributing food and blankets to the homeless on the streets of London , the caring side of her nature came fully into play : " I think something of my mother came back into me . " |
| 9 | Neither of my couriers came back . ’ |
| 10 | Many of my envelopes came back ‘ Return to Sender ’ , and it was clear that most members had died or were very elderly . |
| 11 | One of their defenders stayed back making a mockery of their appeals for offside . |
| 12 | A large part of their earnings went back again to the USA for investment ; as a result they had to pay Belpan National Bank 's transfer charges twice . |
| 13 | The Horror Film Specialist was surrounded by an admiring coterie of lesser horror film specialists and most of their conversation referred back to previous triumphs . |
| 14 | The union is constantly looking out for ways like this to show promoters , record companies and the rest of the music industry the right way to treat musicians , and to remind the business yet again of their responsibility to put back into music just a small part of the rewards which they enjoy , thanks to the skills of musicians . |
| 15 | The noise of their progress floated back to where Paige and Travis lay hidden for many minutes , before fading away completely . |
| 16 | It is however possible for one of their number to come back the next day and give the decision , the findings of fact and the reasons of the court , considered at rather more leisure than sometimes time will permit . |
| 17 | She was still so entranced by the timeless atmosphere of their night-time sail back round the island that it was strange to hear Lucy 's familiar voice on the telephone that night . |
| 18 | Only this time the subjects of their attention fought back . |
| 19 | After losing most of its wartime recruits back to the universities and the law , the Service was determined to maintain its new influence , in Whitehall if not the world . |
| 20 | The truck climbed steeply , the sound of its engine echoing back from thick forest . |
| 21 | The ILP certainly broke up , but most of its members went back into the Labour Party . |
| 22 | But Gary Marsh , head of research with the Halifax , the UK 's biggest building society , says it is inevitable that the modest improvement seen in the market over the last couple of months — especially in the South , where sellers have started to adjust to more realistic levels — will be damaged and the date of its recovery put back . |
| 23 | Fully restored flour mill with much of its machinery dating back to 1730 . |
| 24 | The FAA voluntary reporting system was retained and continues to work well for routine incident reports , while the NASA administered anonymous system made great strides but suffered from the inability of its operatives to refer back to those reporting the incident to obtain amplification of the circumstances or to ask supplementary questions . |
| 25 | Then the sound of her voice echoed back in memory to frighten her . |
| 26 | The muscles under her eyelids clenched , and the skin on the bone of her forehead moved back like the hood of a snake . |
| 27 | I had almost reached the kitchen doorway when I heard the furious sounds of her footsteps coming back towards me again . |
| 28 | The author was Mary Shelley , wife of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley , but very little of her life comes back to memory . |
| 29 | ‘ Well ? ’ she asked , in tones so terrifying that all four of her pupils shrank back against the wall . |
| 30 | His voice was drained of emotion , his eyes lustreless , as Dexter imagined the memory of her body floating back into his mind . |