Example sentences of "[modal v] [pers pn] [vb infin] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could make smaller movies , but after running in the Olympics why should I go back to High School ? |
| 2 | After a pause she said in a stifled voice , ‘ Must you go back to your room ? |
| 3 | SHOULD YOU SIT BACK ON YOUR BOOTS ? |
| 4 | Or should he sit back in his chair and smile calmly at the idiocies of mankind ? |
| 5 | Should he get back into Oxford and try for a First and a Rugby Blue ? |
| 6 | ‘ Could I go back to Harwich ? ’ |
| 7 | Could I go back to something the lady here |
| 8 | Could I go back to three environmental group , please David , er I 've had er quite good news , Ford have agreed to er three diesel cars in their fleet for us to try . |
| 9 | Erm , could I go back to what Mr was saying , of course the main thing is , really that er , the difference in this budget and previous ones is that we are not paying projection costs million . |
| 10 | Could I come back to the point about the twenty seven million passengers or some of I 'm not exactly , but I know it 's a lot , erm figure , it 's large number figure , as a num an extra number of cars . |
| 11 | Bill , could I come back to a quotation by another former Tory Prime Minister in the nineteen sixties , erm they were ragging old Douglas Hume unmercifully , the Labour Party did , when he was made Prime Minister , and , you know , erm all 's fair in politics , and Harold Wilson , I think , made the comment that the democracy of this country had ground to a halt with the appointment of the fourteenth earl , and Douglas Hume , in his sort of very self-deprecating way and his very modest way , says ‘ well , you know , I suppose if one were to ask , he 's probably the fourteenth Mr Wilson ’ . |
| 12 | Yes , could I come back on that . |
| 13 | I could n't look at them ; nor could I look back into the room . |
| 14 | ‘ Could you come back at about ten o'clock tonight … ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Could you come back after lunch ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Could you look back at five , say ? |
| 17 | How could she get back to her own world ? |
| 18 | Erm so we we asked and asked and asked could we change back to the old nutrients which we did do in the early part of December , and lo and behold , suddenly there was n't a problem . |
| 19 | Ruth , what you were saying earlier , about women and class , could we go back to that , could you develop that a bit ? |
| 20 | Now could we go back to your office ? |
| 21 | So if you could just spend five or six minutes doing that and could we come back at twenty five |
| 22 | Could we come back into the group now ? |
| 23 | ‘ Could we get back to A. J. P. Taylor , ’ I cried out , above the sound of both mob and Prime Minister . |
| 24 | So could we get back to the recommendations . |
| 25 | Q : Could we get back to this uniculture of yours ? |
| 26 | She said stoutly , ‘ Shall I walk back with you , Francisco ? ’ |
| 27 | Even if it did n't , how would she get back to the ship ? |
| 28 | Would you go back to Callander now ? ’ |
| 29 | If you broke something , how would you get back in , and where would you drift to ? |
| 30 | A man I recently stopped in the centre of Manchester to ask if he believed in extraterrestrials replied ‘ What ? ’ then ‘ No , I do n't think so , ’ and then ‘ Please would you come back to my flat to mend my faulty radio ? ’ |