Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] back [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the essential qualities needed for reinventing health care under Mr Clinton are three — willingness to go back to first principles , faith in political action , and above all , a superhuman command of detail — then Mr Magaziner has spent his whole life in training for his current job . |
| 2 | Erm on the basis that er we were , when we were setting the , the targets , the time was set by the work study personnel erm and then the operator was able to obtain a trial run on the time given er and if at the end of the work , he was satisfied that he had made the target bonus , or near enough , or if he was satisfied that , given a little extra opportunity to go back onto that job should it come back again in the near future , then he would , he would see clearly that he could make at least fifty percent er which was the target bonus , and probably more . |
| 3 | you , if there 's any money to come back on that |
| 4 | The present looks back at some great figure of an earlier century and wonders , Was he on our side ? |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a psychological boost to go back on top but we have been there before and we wo n't be getting too carried away . ’ |
| 6 | 38 , 51 , afford a sufficient basis for saying that a party would not be allowed in equity to go back on such a promise . |
| 7 | ‘ My love of English football goes back to 1973 when I was with Leigh . |
| 8 | My opposition goes back to 1979 and to the work done in the Department of the Environment when I was in it on the production of the 1981 Green Paper . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know how he 's got the neck to come back to these parts . ’ |
| 10 | A young Paul Gascoigne has a torrid time of it at the hands of the opposition in a league football match back in 1989 . |
| 11 | Erm , he was , on the first and second day , he was second in class and sixty fifth over all and then he was , the next day he was sec still second in class and fifty fifth over all and then once the prop shaft or something 's broken , yeah I 've got a spare one , but the car came back in one bit so erm , he 's got an interview with T V S next week I think or the week after because erm when Rob lent him something that erm , did his , did a lot of it 's nothing to do with erm , they sponsored him two thousand pounds |
| 12 | Prune grape vines before the sap begins to flow again by cutting all side shoots back to one or two buds . |
| 13 | When in 1961 an Anglo-Kuwaiti accord dating back to 1988 expired , Kuwait became independent . |
| 14 | This epic work is very much Mehra 's creation , the result of an obsession dating back to 1952 , when he decided to make the study of the history of quantum theory his life 's work . |
| 15 | Well they were chronicles , in a sense , erm there were chronicles very frequently written by interested parties , and in the case of Clarendon 's History , it was really an attempt to look back over some experiences which he himself had had , and in a way it is a , a , a classic of its kind . |
| 16 | He could approach the cataclysmic events of the forthcoming August with an adequate authority ; and he could in the future look back on 1931 with a certain complacency , as ‘ the year my party tried to get rid of me ’ . |
| 17 | As I stood there my mind raced back to that time so many years ago when I had heard my mother say , ‘ I do n't love you , Nicky . ’ |
| 18 | She tried to think of nothing at all , but found her mind drifting back to that one subject all the time . |
| 19 | ‘ Was there some specific reason for this visit , ’ Robyn enquired , determinedly ignoring the teasing smile , the lurch in her stomach as her mind swung back to that morning . |
| 20 | The whole deal began back in 1920 when Mamie Smith , the first blues singer to be commercially recorded , cut ‘ Crazy Blues ’ for the Okeh label , a song that came backed by ‘ It 's Right Here For You ( And If You Do n't Get It … |
| 21 | ‘ I felt I had the momentum coming back from 40–0 , ’ the Australian , French and US Open champion added . |
| 22 | The next day she decided to saddle the horse for a ride , but as the girth was being tightened the horse pulled back in great fear , broke its halter rope , and threw itself over backwards sending the saddle crashing to the ground . |
| 23 | Rachel tensed , holding her breath for a split second as her mind whirled back to that limousine , to Damian Flint beside her , his voice smoky and seductive : ‘ Domino … ? ’ |
| 24 | Her mind drifted back to that occasion while Pascoe was talking and she was recalled sharply when she realized he had put a question . |
| 25 | My mind went back to one particular Saturday evening . |
| 26 | Frank 's mind went back to that torrid summer when they had melted into intimacy . |
| 27 | As she stared unseeingly ahead , her mind went back to that first meeting with Robert , and a pang of regret shot through her . |
| 28 | As the throng of workers laughed and joked , tucking into the vast amount of food laid out before them , Annie 's mind went back to other Mell Suppers and not for the first time , she reflected on how her family had dwindled . |
| 29 | His mind clicked back into another , less agitated gear . |
| 30 | She swallowed carefully , her mind skittering back to that day at the office when Rebecca had returned unexpectedly and disturbed them . |