Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] back in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we miss each other we 'll meet back in this office in three hours . ’ |
| 2 | It might come back in six months , in might come back in six years . |
| 3 | It might come back in six months , in might come back in six years . |
| 4 | well you sit there then , I 'll come back in two minutes I , I ca n't hear what Richard and James are doing |
| 5 | ‘ I mean , we have to show them we 're terribly trustworthy or something , show them that if we are allowed to wander off , we 'll wander back in good time . ’ |
| 6 | The USA had no system of social security against the ravages of sickness or unemployment — no " dole " as in Britain , on which people could fall back in bad times . |
| 7 | They were not , they were not dispensed with , well one could look back in seventy eight and say retrospectively how that process could have been started considerably earlier , er the honourable gentleman knows perfectly well that er as the Maastricht bill was winding its way through here it was n't really practical to run this but indeed the processes were started before the governing legislation was on the statute book and I quite understand why honourable gentlemen opposite wish to make their party points , particularly those particularly those who were not in the house in seventy eight which er does n't I think apply to the honourable gentleman from from Birmingham , when he knows perfectly well that the same kind of machinery is used now was used then and it was used as fairly and as honestly and as completely impartially as the time allowed . |
| 8 | Mr Bale would come back in two or three weeks and she need never see Nick Frazer again . |
| 9 | In its annual World Economic Outlook , published at the recent Washington meeting of the IMF and World Bank , the Fund forecasts that average GNP growth in the industrial world will ease to a still healthy 3% or so in 1989 and 1990 , and inflation , though it will rise to 3.8% this year , will drop back in 1990 . |
| 10 | One person , on being informed that he has a life-threatening illness , will sit back in sad acceptance and wait for the end to come . |
| 11 | One can look back in eighty seven when we had that terrible storm and they said well once in a hundred years and then we had a storm very similar I think it is essential we look |
| 12 | Now you 're gon na get on and read it and you can report back in ten minutes and I do n't want any questions . |
| 13 | You can stand back in practical terms , too — suggesting a couple of hours ' break for people to clear their heads , or that you finish early in order for people to think over proposals and reconvene in the morning . |
| 14 | Back here by twelve in fact , if you want , you can come back in earlier and |
| 15 | At that 10th , Christy says to Sandy , ‘ If either of us two can come back in two-under par , we 're going to win this . |