Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Because food preparation generally involves a good deal of doubling back to and from the refrigerator , sink , stove and different work surfaces , the walking distance between all the main work areas should not be excessive .
2 Raising the level of skills amongst British workers is so crucial , not only to any immediate programme of moving back to full employment , but also to maintaining and improving Britain 's long-term performance , that the question of training can not be left to the free play of market forces .
3 Several months previously he had applied through the usual channels for a commission in the RAF , with the idea at the back of his mind of getting back into flying .
4 The occult even stoops to necromancy , the claimed practice of calling back into temporary life a dead body for the purposes of extracting information out of its spirit .
5 Cook has every intention of getting back into the South African team next season although he will not find it easy following the success of Andrew Hudson at the World Cup .
6 Apart from the fact that it divested its foundry business some four years ago — and has no intention of getting back into that game — Motorola can supply 88000 parts at a $850 apiece .
7 It 's always held a special meaning for me , and when the development is completed I have every intention of moving back into the area and making my home here .
8 In the meantime , Tarmac says work on the site will continue and they have no intention of going back on any of their committments to the development .
9 Bishop Lesslie Newbigin ( 1983 ) describes the effect of coming back to England after years in the mission field as one of shock : a realisation that there was little hope .
10 It did n't usually matter because there was always the alternative of going back to where we started and tighten the game up ’ .
11 at the Gateshead National Garden Festival from 1989 to 1990 that was alright , then last September 1990 and with the end of the festival in site I had a dread of going back on the dole as I already spent seven years on the dole previously through no-fault of my own .
12 Afterwards you stand no hope of getting back into the City .
13 Looking further into the future the railway still cherishes the hope of building back to a British Railway connection at Ruabon on the Chester-Shrewsbury line .
14 Nor was there any hope of going back into football — unless the authorities could be persuaded to lift their ban on him .
15 mm , er , got a bit of revert back to the nice
16 I would like to say that in these days of environmental awareness and so on , that is a kind of harking back to times when there was a mid-winter feast
17 But one problem which employers may face is employees ' reluctance to move to a cheaper area as they can foresee the difficulty of moving back into a high-priced housing area later on .
18 That type of putting back into a business context , is something which er we need to help the business come to terms with while they are growing in this new scheme of procuring work in a more formal and structured way .
19 As the gloom of evening began to settle over the leafy canopy Paige carried her last bundle of kindling back to their campsite .
20 When I have been entertaining Shirley and Terry Jones doing an evening meal on a Saturday or a Sunday and sometimes both to help Shirley when she was getting into the run of going back to work I found that one of the cheapest of dinner party deserts was lemon meringue pie .
21 Yes , yes When I have , have been entertaining Shirley and Terry , doing an evening meal on a Saturday or a Sunday , sometimes both to help Shirley when she 's getting into the run of going back to work I found that one of the cheapest of dinner party deserts is lemon meringue pie
22 ‘ Every time we got to the dying fall of Come Back to Sorrento she wound the damn thing up again .
23 But some sort of step back from the brink was essential .
24 So are they looking for it to lead to a , sort of getting back to last week 's terminology , a restoration or , or are are they actually , do they know that they 're getting involved in a revolution ?
25 I mean does it , does it lie over that way or has it sort of gone back on itself ?
26 He uses the music to suck you in , then you sort of pull back in horror at what you 've gone along with . ’
27 And you get the feeling that they 'll sort of go back to school and college or wherever
28 Yeah I think we 're all the same though , we all sort of dwell back on our
29 How do you feel , the sort of looking back on life , sort of the difference now u when you were young ?
30 ‘ And you could see him sort of recline back in the chair … he was visibly surprised . ’
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