Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [v-ing] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead he learned that life is not a choice between murdering your way to the throne or slopping back in a sty ; that there are swinish kings and regal hogs ; that the king may envy the pig ; and that the possibilities of the not-life will always change tormentingly to fit the particular embarrassments of the lived life . |
| 2 | It was also given in-depth coverage on television and radio that evening , with News at Ten running it as the lead story in the first half of the programme and coming back to it again in the second . |
| 3 | The gossip is that she is thinking of resigning from the practice and going back to her home town . |
| 4 | After being hauled out by rescuers using a rope , he was helped up 300-ft high steps and a mile-and-a-half across moorland before changing back at his car and travelling back to Middlesbrough where the extent of his injuries were discovered . |
| 5 | There was a moment when she responded by putting her head on one side and rubbing back against my hand but soon she was ready to leave . |
| 6 | Always , when dead-heading or taking flowers as cut bloom , observe the above principle of cutting or cleaning back to just above a node . |
| 7 | At your command , our unique GPS Man Overboard feature immediately goes into a special plot mode which continuously gives range and bearing back to the location at which it was activated . |
| 8 | On 22 January 1946 he agreed to the formation of the Central Intelligence Group ( CIG ) , which was to be a small organisation simply collating all forms of foreign intelligence and reporting back to the president through the National Intelligence Authority ( NIA ) . |
| 9 | He moved swiftly , opening the door to the corridor and standing back for her to go through . |
| 10 | Félix drew a deep sigh and leaning back in his chair , raised his dark eyebrows in a wry half-smile . |
| 11 | As the task force made its slow way towards the Falklands exclusion zone , hostilities began in earnest on 2 May when a torpedo from a British nuclear-powered submarine sank the Argentine cruiser , General Belgrano , with the loss of 360 lives ; it was a highly suspicious episode , since the Belgrano appeared to be leaving the exclusion zone and heading back to Argentina at the time . |
| 12 | I normally make a note of the palette number and list the yarn names , along with the manufacturers ' colour names or numbers for each of the eight colours , in a book and find this is a great help when going back to a palette later , or when looking for a palette containing certain yarn colours . |
| 13 | ‘ I had no idea of the time , ’ she murmured , pushing back a tendril of hair and leaning back in her chair . |
| 14 | Porters South is a former three-storey beer-bottling plant , built in brick and dating back to 1904 . |
| 15 | and we 're , we 're going on the Friday afternoon and coming back on the Monday afternoon . |
| 16 | WHILE a growing number of British companies are switching from petrol to diesel-engined cars to improve fuel consumption and cut costs , one company , originally at the vanguard of the diesel movement , has dumbfounded the experts by reversing its decision and going back to petrol . |
| 17 | The group suggest that , in return , farmers be offered a range of financial incentives for countryside conservation , such as leaving " wildlife corridors " and unmown field headlands , planting appropriate woodland and cutting back on use of pesticides . |
| 18 | Outside I could hear rain falling upon the fire-escape and bouncing back against the window . |
| 19 | Cos it 's sad in my opinion that going back to where we were several months ago because we set out out to attracting higher quality people paying them more money and we 've come back again to basically seeing the people who we saw in the first instance |
| 20 | ‘ The job and getting back to it was her first thought , ’ said Barry , 38 . |
| 21 | Favre , brought in to replace injured Don Majkowski , has made the quarterback position his own — despite his first pass hitting an opponent and rebounding back into his own arms for a legal completion . |
| 22 | Near the start of chapter 14 the people spoke of choosing another leader and going back to Egypt . |
| 23 | For a moment I thought of getting on my joke transport and heading back to the East Oxford slums where I belonged . |
| 24 | NHS professionals normally perceive day hospitals as a possible alternative to hospital admission for people who are acutely ill and can not be treated as outpatients or at home , as a place for recently discharged short-term in-patients to attend for a period while settling back into normal life , and as a place to treat , monitor and give social support to long-term patients who would otherwise live isolated lives . |
| 25 | Which was worse — staying here for the night or going back with him to the hotel ? |
| 26 | This article explains how you can rapidly increase your finds rate by putting yourself on the saddle of an imaginary bicycle and travelling back in time to the turn-of-the-century . |
| 27 | Next moment , both men were out of the cab and sprinting back towards the blazing house . |
| 28 | She was out every evening , sometimes staying away all night and coming back in the afternoon only to tart herself up for the next evening away . |
| 29 | I felt like flinging my arms about , twirling , leaping into an aerial somersault and landing back on my feet again . |
| 30 | They wander the land seeking news and reporting back to the tower . |