Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] back [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The threatened revolt fizzled out as Conservative critics decided to draw back from voting down the whole Budget , keeping their powder dry for future votes when the issue comes before the Commons in detail . |
| 2 | But her mind kept going back to singing , dancing , acting … |
| 3 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 4 | Rebecca West , representing the polite world of letters at this proletarian scene of retribution , was being told by an elderly man how he had come back from viewing his grandchildren 's bodies at the public mortuary and heard the voice of the condemned criminal mocking him over the radio . |
| 5 | He had gone back to calling her Maggie . |
| 6 | Cllr Murphy said he had been bitterly disappointed that the report had stepped back from investigating allegations on manipulation of personnel recruitment because it is under investigation by an independent management consultancy . |
| 7 | She had known Sam all her life and though he was a worthy and hard-working man , she knew why she had held back from agreeing to marry him . |