Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five years later the 1,100-member club decided to move back to Duke Street . |
| 2 | The pepper pot analogy kept coming back to Raymond Cusick as he began sketching his ideas down onto paper . |
| 3 | But of course our talk kept coming back to our plight . |
| 4 | Her mind kept flicking back to the python smile of the assassin , conjuring images of what might have been : death , blood , pain . |
| 5 | But her mind kept going back to singing , dancing , acting … |
| 6 | My mind kept going back to the case that was nothing to do with me , the unsolved mystery of the man with a load of live ammunition in his pockets found dead on the Thames mud . |
| 7 | US officials reportedly expressed concerns that the Soviet side had drawn back from previously agreed elements of the START treaty , and that at the same time it appeared to be adopting a less conciliatory stance on other arms control and disarmament issues , such as the ceiling on troops in Central Europe and the outline of an " Open Skies " treaty agreed in February [ ibid . ] . |
| 8 | The Gold Coast had fallen back from the situation 50 years earlier when English-educated Africans had played a leading part in administration , Christian leadership , the judiciary and the learned professions . |
| 9 | Major debt defaults in Mexico and Brazil had prompted a worldwide retreat from international bank lending and the virtual collapse of the syndicated loan market ; since then , unofficial observers estimated that some $45,000 million of net development capital aid had flowed back from the borrowing countries and towards the lenders . |
| 10 | Hence the study had to fall back on a proxy for measures of ill health — standardised mortality ratios ( SMRs ) or death rates from different diseases standardised by age . |
| 11 | The men on the fence had disappeared back into the trees . |
| 12 | The superintendent sat slumped back in her chair , cupping her chin in her hand . |
| 13 | Paddy was digging the rubbish pit , but sand kept blowing back into it like teeming insects . |
| 14 | Jake turned and looked urgently at his son ; but Adam 's gaze had fallen back to Undry , and Ruth was n't sure he 'd heard . |
| 15 | The main part of the bowstave seemed to bend back upon itself . |
| 16 | The group decided to go back to other dreams , other schools like some of those discussed in the earlier chapters of this book . |
| 17 | As other departments , such as Visual Effects , joined in the unofficial boycott of Doctor Who ( see Chapter Five ) , Verity Lambert , Mervyn Pinfield and their team had to fall back on ingenuity from their Designers and Directors , plus backing from Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson who both maintained great faith in the prospects of the show . |
| 18 | The team had moved back in again , carefully sifting and analysing . |
| 19 | They drank whisky and cider , watched pornogrhapic videos that the teacher had brought back from a holiday in Germany . |
| 20 | He moved away from the bunk and then with his hand on the curtain paused to look back at her . |
| 21 | So , paradoxically , private enterprise in its most unrestricted and anarchic period tended to fall back on the only available models of large-scale management , the military and bureaucratic . |
| 22 | The jeep was bouncing them about mercilessly as the Brigadier tried to get back to the village in time for the Captain and the Substitute to go back to Florence and eat . |
| 23 | The jockey 's race never stops … never stalls … so far this season Richard Dunwoody has had three hundred and sixty nine rides … he should be celebrating his century of winners any day … only one man can catch him and stop him and that 's Peter Scudamore … at Wincanton this week the reigning champion came galloping back with a winning treble … |
| 24 | In fact , as an eminent Scottish banker remarked looking back from seven years on , it was remarkable , " after the first surprise and alarm was over , how quietly the country submitted , as they still do , to transact all business by means of bank notes for which the issuers give no specie " . |
| 25 | Colour began to come back into the young woman 's cheeks . |
| 26 | The bearer kept looking back at him . |
| 27 | The delay necessitated going back to the trough for a third-round of venture capital after going through the $12m brought in by the first two rounds . |
| 28 | The image of the policeman had faded back into the trees , the fear of pursuit was momentarily forgotten as he relived the saga of his escape . |
| 29 | She was quite the most attractive thing in the café now that the colour had come back to her face and she had regained her normal cheerful manner . |
| 30 | Some colour had come back into Jennifer 's face . |