Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | On Aug. 8 the British hostage John McCarthy was released in Beirut ; he was swiftly transported to the Syrian capital , Damascus , and thence flown back to the United Kingdom . |
2 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
3 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
4 | The mitre template has since come back onto the market , but at prices like £18-£20 and considering the relatively small amount of work in which it is employed , some readers will no doubt feel that they could spend that money more profitably , so will want to make their own . |
5 | You 'd better hustle back to the stand , pronto ! |
6 | Shop manager , Jim Willcock 's been allowed home from hospital , but he 's not well enough to go back to the co-op in Cam . |
7 | ‘ Now they are working hard to get me fit enough to go back on the list — and they 're the only ones giving me hope , ’ says Anthony . |
8 | 3 Stir in the peanut butter and gently bring back to the boil until the sauce thickens and goes glossy and smooth . |
9 | He 'd be lucky if he was merely broken back into the Scouts for ten or twenty years . |
10 | The force is rightly stepping back from the limelight . |
11 | It is n't good enough to fall back on a somewhat arbitrary list of subjects without specific aims . |
12 | ‘ You 'd better come back in the house and dry your shoes and socks , ’ said Betty . |
13 | But he above is a representative of the general tone of the interview which constantly referred back to the suspiciously ‘ instant ’ political aspects of the band . |
14 | ‘ I think we 'd better head back to a city , you know . |
15 | The presbyterians also had misgivings , and only came back into the system in 1838 when they were practically guaranteed control of their own schools within it . |
16 | Here , we can perhaps refer back to the discussion of graduate employment presented early in the chapter . |
17 | The proper equipment makes the whole operation far easier and safer , and encourages instructors to practise those exercises which can so often result in a long walk back to the launch point . |
18 | However , the exhibition does not necessarily refer back to the previous event , and there is hardly ever a sense of continuing from where the previous exhibition left off . |
19 | She said nothing , but only arched back against the soft leather , lost in the tantalising , agonising pleasure of his hands — a pleasure that lit a fire deep inside her , but did nothing to quench it . |
20 | There was no one about in the woods , so she 'd better hurry back to the town as fast as she could . |
21 | And she suddenly turned back in the direction they had come and ran all the way , her wet shift slapping against her bare legs . |
22 | We have only to look back to the debates about language across the curriculum to remember the puerile arguments over whose responsibility it was to teach language skills . |
23 | So going back to the parallel , have you had any thoughts about it ? |
24 | And er he was back there ten days ago for some or other to see another customer and when he came , only got back into the country on Monday or Tuesday |
25 | Usually , what with shooting and swimming with the others and riding up at Biddy 's , he had only got back to the garden shed in time to flake out until morning . |
26 | She was soon forgetful of the time , however , her thoughts swiftly going back to the man who had put his finger on her doorbell at that hour in the morning , and kept it there . |
27 | We must make sure we do n't keep on disturbing the seed 's growth by constantly going back to the same people and badgering them . |
28 | A second application of this technique only leads back to the original solution , apart from an arbitrary complex constant . |
29 | ‘ They have had their ins and outs and have all got back into the side , ’ he says . |
30 | I did , for the first time in 1979 , when we spent a family fishing holiday in the Hebrides ; and we have been returning regularly ever since , constantly drawn back by the magic spell the Outer Hebrides cast over all who set foot upon her romantic shores . |