Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] back [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the main , they are instilled with the pragmatic games of pursuit they play with the local petty thief ; and if asked to consider the wider nature of their role , they tend to fall back on protestations of political neutrality .
2 we tend to go back to feet I must say .
3 but er otherwise I 'll , I 'll would n't , I never want to go back to Nazeing not after now and , and now the , this new town we were taken shopping the other Tuesday , it was really lovely and we see all the shops , first time I 've really seen them properly and er I thoroughly enjoyed it and we were all given erm in a , is it Blockers one of the shops ?
4 If you want to go back to basics and try to assess the sort of person you are , and the kind of working environment best suited to you , then there are a number of exercises you can do with an honest friend .
5 First and foremost though , we want to go back to basics and erm get our ideas absolutely straight as regards what quality is and what we 're trying to achieve with I S O Nine Thousand .
6 They just want to go back to bed — especially if there 's someone warm waiting for them . ’
7 I want to go back to bed .
8 " I want to go back to London with you , " she said .
9 I 'll look after her if you want to go back to work .
10 Some of them just want to go back to places they liked while they were still alive .
11 I want to come back to Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School , but Strauss was someone you knew personally ?
12 All the children want to come back to England .
13 And I want to get back into Tibet and I also want to go to Russia .
14 If you talk to women in the sort of project where she 's working , I think you do get a very strong picture of people who have very little confidence in themselves and certainly think that education is not for them , and if you then look at projects like second chance for women , there 's a range of access projects , particularly for for people who want to get back into education when they think that they 've had precious little chance to get anything out of education when they were at school themselves .
15 Would my right honourable friend care to pay tribute to the work of the training and enterprise councils in helping women particularly who want to get back into work by providing child care facilities er and would he also like to comment on the threshold scheme in Northampton which he visited last week which is an example of partnership between the public sector , the private sector , the TECs er promoting this sort of work .
16 As a way of approaching such a theory , I want to step back from questions of programme categorization and return to prior questions of the poetics of genre in case there is something there which the more immediate premisses of popular genre have been missing .
17 However , in the period before 19th October the yield gap had become significantly negative and for the earnings yield to rise back to parity with the bond yield a significant fall in equity prices was needed .
18 And you always seem to arrive back in time for supper . ’
19 Some members like to come back to Bristol for social events like the Alumni Foundation concerts or the sports reunions which are organised from time to time .
20 The Indian community I was in contact with when I was in Delhi , they like to come back to Kuwait .
21 And I erm I actually like to discuss back to basics for a while erm on communication perspective i in some of the what 's happening at the moment .
22 Welcome Computer Systems ' managing partner Nick Chudley echoes this view : ‘ Sadly , and we believe mistakenly , some customers decide to cut back on training as an economy measure .
23 There is often a large sag in the line-up of boards , because although the people at either end are confident that they are not over the line , the people in the middle can not judge their approach precisely and tend to hold back in caution .
24 ‘ The home-owner is now on police bail to report back to Ashford police station , ’ said a police spokesman .
25 Ten yards out on the sea I turn to yell back to Rachel .
26 The Commission filing indicates that Michels , whose Santa Cruz shares would be worth around $51.1m with the offering , is receiving $16,667 a month in salary until June 1994 , a total of $300,000 , provided he does n't work for a competitor or try to get back on Santa Cruz 's board , and $3,000 a month for expenses .
27 The SEC filing indicates Michels , whose SCO shares would be worth around $51.1m with the offering , is receiving $16,667 a month in salary until June 1994 , a total of $300,000 , provided he does n't work for a competitor or try to get back on SCO 's board and $3,000 a month for expenses .
28 Hence , a sequence of shots might be : mother and toddler together on sands , toddler crawls out of picture leaving mother watching to see where it goes cut ; an older child digging a sand castle cut ; closer shot of mother looking out of picture in opposite direction , turns to look back in direction of off-frame toddler , cut from her to toddler who is now well on way to the sea cut ; father getting to his feet to go after child , pan with him as he sets off and catches up with the wanderer , they start to walk back to mother cut ; the older child carries on with its castle-digging ( see pages 62–63 ) .
29 I wish to go back to Uncle George and Gillian , ’ she added , ‘ so that I can guide them back to Threlkeld . ’
30 So , first time through you take the ‘ first time bar ’ ( ie. bar 8 ) and return to start back at bar 1 again .
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