Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may have been open-fronted , the borders of the open seam being either fastened together or pinned back at the breast , again with brooches and pins . |
| 2 | Anyway , so that gets back to the thing over policy . |
| 3 | Guido was already heading down the corridor towards his own room , but he stopped suddenly and glanced back at her across his shoulder . |
| 4 | What was it , six o'clock and come back at nine ? |
| 5 | I told her I would n't be long and went back down the path . |
| 6 | You would see broken cups gathering themselves together and jumping back onto the table . |
| 7 | The street was narrow , cobbled , full of old buildings which were joined together and went back to medieval times . |
| 8 | If you stir enough of them together and stand back for a few hundred million years , the result is likely to be a chemical entity capable of reproducing itself — one of the fundamental differences between living and nonliving material . |
| 9 | It 's exciting ; going back together and going back to a country which hopefully is changing . |
| 10 | Ned went out by a parallel track , the Caples , so as to get back to Queenstown for New Year festivities . |
| 11 | Consequently increased emphasis needs to be placed upon the role of assessment , rehabilitation and transfer rather than discharge back into the community . |
| 12 | Rather than walk back on your own . |
| 13 | Rather than moving back to a more conventional approach based on genuine consultation , it had opted for a system giving it greater control . |
| 14 | Perhaps it is better , rather than roaming back into the recesses of geological time to consider the sudden and simultaneous extinctions that happened in Our geological yesterday . |
| 15 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
| 16 | You should have seen Captain Trentham 's face when ‘ e found out that I had chosen a spell in the Fusiliers rather than going back to gaol . ’ |
| 17 | Not only this , but because owls are naturally nocturnal , if I released Dawn during the day , she was quite likely to seek out a suitable roosting place rather than come back to me for food , if the fancy took her . |
| 18 | Yeah erm , the reason I want to follow it up is because would you not agree er with a number of major companies in this country and in a time of recession rather than cutting back on your marketing and advertising you should in fact be increasing it in fact when the marketing |
| 19 | Rather than fall back on an increased emphasis upon managerialism based upon hierarchy and control , the Education Reform Acts should be regarded as an opportunity to review , not just in a coping way but in a maximising way , the management structures and processes of our schools . |
| 20 | Tolkien too might think of the Norse legend of the ‘ Undying Lands ’ , the Odáinsakr : when King Hadding reached its boundary the witch who guided him killed a cock and threw it over the wall — a moment later he heard the cock crow before he himself had to turn away and go back to mortality . |
| 21 | Increasingly worried , Comfort dried Julia 's face as gently as she could , threw the water away and went back to her chair to watch . |
| 22 | ‘ Throw them away and come back with me . ’ |
| 23 | But now , get yourself away and get back on time if you want to get off early tonight . |
| 24 | If you get stuck , just put the map away and go back to it later . |
| 25 | Only a few of the rearmost broke away and escaped back towards Ruthyn . |
| 26 | He parked the car a street away and walked back through a gauntlet of whispers and stony smiles . |
| 27 | He 'd dumped the car a mile away and walked back to his flat , passing less than half a dozen other people along the way . |
| 28 | After giving birth to a child , Watkuweis ran away and journeyed back to her own people . |
| 29 | I pushed my plate away and settled back with the wine . |
| 30 | I pushed my plate away and settled back with the wine . |