Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] back [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duff , who won the title when representing Auchinleck back in 1988 , but now resident in England and representing his new country , looked to be heading for the quarter-finals when he opened up a 6-1 final-set lead over Dennis Catunarich . |
| 2 | turn to Mr Potter I think he 's been dying to get back on this so |
| 3 | But the taxi had showed up on the dot , and she had stepped in , resolutely refusing to look back for one last glance at the house . |
| 4 | Er , she explained to me a case she had analyzed where she , Anna Freud , was quite certain that some of the symptoms of the woman she was analyzing went back to infantile masturbation . |
| 5 | They are not going to go back to those of the heady days of the late 1980s . ’ |
| 6 | They may have a slight perturbation on the behaviour of the school teachers , because they 're going to come back with some ideas which the school teachers will find slightly foreign to them . |
| 7 | I think we 're probably going to come back to that again in a minute . |
| 8 | So we 're going to come back to that at several different points during the day or two , and lastly , bat and ball . |
| 9 | So again we 're going to come back to several themes in a fairly repetitive way , and we — do n't forgive us for this if you do n't like it , but we 're certainly going to talk about certain things again and again and again , but what it really comes down to , is ‘ Learn what the media 's all about , learn what they want , learn what you can provide , see whether you can match this , in a sense , and see whether you can make it work to your advantage ’ . |
| 10 | I have lain awake all night waiting to get back to these words and I have now read them a dozen times . |
| 11 | I can also report to congress that at last there are some signs at long last of some kind of recovery in the building materials industry very early days yet but some companies are actually beginning to go back to full-time working and in one or two cases are actually starting to take on additional , er , employees . |
| 12 | It was a thrilling encounter with Colm going two up quite early in the round and getting pegged back to all square . |
| 13 | By the time of the Restoration in 1660 , the country was beginning to get back to normal . |
| 14 | But having to go back to first principles proved a decisive advantage . |
| 15 | The Manchester United star was diagnosed as having meningitis and is only now starting to battle back to full fitness after having the fright of his young life . |
| 16 | World No 8 Wilkinsonfrom Kirkby-in-Ashfield , went down 9-7 to stablemate Martin Clark , having fought back from 8-4 . |
| 17 | Yet despite the fine weather of the previous week , many of the cracks and chimneys , shaded from the sun , were ice-bound , so we bridged and balanced boldly to avoid having to change back into big boots . |
| 18 | With companies continuing to cut back on corporate travel , the first-class and business-class passengers who have traditionally provided airlines with their profits are not returning in anything like their earlier numbers . |
| 19 | This is perhaps not unexpected , given their reverence for the past and their long tradition of scholarship and collecting stretching back over several millennia . |
| 20 | He uses a study of past periods of warming stretching back over several millions of years to confirm his view that more carbon dioxide to nourish plants , more warmth , more rainfall , more arable land as the frontiers of ice are pushed back will mean bigger harvests . |
| 21 | these two are also hoping to come back with more money than they went … you see along the route they 're raising funds hopefully as much as ten thousand pounds for the haemophilia society … |
| 22 | ‘ They are now trying to draw back from earlier opinions , but this does not change my opinion of them . ’ |
| 23 | Then one time after we 've had a rough mission and trying to get back on flying status an'all , we flew over to your Hundredth Bomb Group field and this did the there with crew . |
| 24 | After the pilot 's personal safety , the safety of the aircraft must be the next most important consideration ; it is always safer to land out than to risk trying to get back with marginal height . |
| 25 | They will be constantly trying to get back into licensed dealers , or else will settle for a different sort of trickery . |
| 26 | EUROPE 'S three largest data-processing firms are planning to fight back against national research programmes that companies in Japan and the US are running . |
| 27 | Look forward to your future with optimism , even though you may have been feeling held back for some time . |