Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] back in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | be ready to make informed guesses , and to correct themselves in the light of additional information , eg by reading ahead or looking back in the text ; |
| 2 | Invariably Titron came up , green water avalanching into white that flared back in the wind . |
| 3 | I 'm crying a bit as I try and stick the pieces together , but I ca n't do it so I just leave them on the floor and sit back in the chair . |
| 4 | The data can then be analysed or altered and placed back in the database . |
| 5 | She unlocked the door and got back in the shower . |
| 6 | She hailed it , gave the Chinese driver her address in a monotone , and sank back in the air-conditioned interior , staring at the white skyscrapers below . |
| 7 | I would put on a tape of Tudor madrigals — a new interest — and lie back in the contoured leather seats , letting myself melt into the crevices of Morley 's sinuous six-part harmony and observing the surrounding misery with mounting satisfaction . |
| 8 | Inside-right John Jackson , 23 , came from Clyde for £1,000 , one of Leeds ' largest outlays , and Fred Blackman , described by the Yorkshire Post as ‘ possibly the most stylish and polished back in the Second Division ’ , was bought from Huddersfield Town . |
| 9 | For a fleeting moment , she wondered if the woman might have given her deliberately wrong directions but , shrugging the thought away , she started the car and turned back in the direction from which she had just come . |
| 10 | ‘ Come on ; do n't just lie there , ’ Andy said matter-of-factly , leaving his cock alone and lying back in the grass , putting his arm behind his head and staring up at the sky . |
| 11 | The Thames barges , built of living wood that gave and sprang back in the face of the wind , were as much at home as anything on the river . |
| 12 | Uncle Wafter heaved a sigh and slumped back in the chair , his hand covering his eyes . |
| 13 | Faye made a face and slumped back in the passenger-seat . |
| 14 | And lolling back in the high chair , he promptly fell asleep . |
| 15 | She was out every evening , sometimes staying away all night and coming back in the afternoon only to tart herself up for the next evening away . |
| 16 | Walter sighed and lay back in the chair . |
| 17 | After a while Father Poole straightened up with a groan and lay back in the chair . |
| 18 | I swung my feet up on the desk and lay back in the chair . |
| 19 | He raised his eyes from the paperwork on his desk and leant back in the chair , a lazy grin on his face . |
| 20 | All I can do is try and get back in the side . ’ |
| 21 | Schellenberg turned up the collar of his greatcoat and leaned back in the corner pulling the peak of his cap over his eyes . |
| 22 | He shrugged , picked up his own cup and saucer and leaned back in the chair with them balanced on the arm . |
| 23 | Running down , or , as the current euphemism has it , rationalizing a business , while keeping the enthusiasm , loyalty and commitment of one 's people , and fighting back in the marketplace , is one of the most difficult of industrial situations , and certainly separates the sheep from the goats in a management sense . |
| 24 | So the bit was taken out of his mouth and put back in the proper place , and Wendy continued to calmly trot him around with the other horses ; and Huckleberry kept putting his tongue over the bit again , and again , and again . |
| 25 | Piers wiped his mouth with the napkin and relaxed back in the chair , surveying her through dark , thick lashes . |
| 26 | Daine had been caught and convicted back in the real world . |
| 27 | They have been left behind by the economic restructuring of the 1980s , shunted off on a branch line of history and left back in the twilight of the 1970s along with flares and skinheads , a time when demagogues made last-ditch efforts to salvage working-class pride and channel it in a fascist direction . |
| 28 | Katherine blurted out the memorized address and sat back in the comfortable warmth of the car . |
| 29 | She felt very conscious of his presence , and it was with relief that she completed her task and sat back in the chair . |
| 30 | 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 . |