Example sentences of "[vb -s] back [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 at Bristol City tomorrow in the Combination with goalkeeper Jason Winters back after a foot injury .
2 So it gets back to a question of confidence again ?
3 And she said , when she qualifies it will be years before she 's gets back to an F grade !
4 Intent and unafraid , Dr. Sylvia Earle never turns back from a challenge .
5 This Trumping of the souvenir market goes back to a boyhood in Portsmouth and a hobby of collecting shells and making creatures out of them .
6 In order to challenge this complex of interlocking polarities , Amalgamemnon goes back to a time when the two domains , though distinct , were not yet differentiated by separate modes of narrative , back to Herodotus , the first prose artist and ‘ the father of fibstory ’ ( 22,113 ) .
7 There were three women and they died at the same time so God goes cos you do n't all three of you do n't so , erm , the first one goes : I wan na go back to Earth thousand times are better so she goes back as a President , right ?
8 and er , he said if he 's not better , any better when he goes back in a fortnight he 's gon na send him to a chest specialist , but you 've been a lot better have n't you ?
9 It works with standard audio input devices like microphones , disks and cassette tapes , and plays back on a variety of devices .
10 Some critics have suggested that improvement of services will improve success only transitorily , since higher expectations will increase user demand and drag success rates back towards a constant .
11 Recently restored to its original splendour , the visitor to these former royal apartments slips back into an age when elegance was king .
12 Liz 's anger towards Raquel dates back to a charity dinner this year .
13 But although the name Roath is an ancient one — it means , in Irish , the forest and therefore dates back to a time when Welsh was borrowing words from Irish , around the 5th century — there was little that surrounded the young Cottle which was in fact medieval .
14 This suggests that ri2 originated from the transposition of ri1 , but that this event dates back to a time before P.wickerhamii and S.obliquus diverged .
15 Maybe , like the lemmings , the pattern dates back to an era when their goal was closer and the swim was not so long .
16 If a salmon comes back to a river after a year , it is known as a grilse , and — weighing anything from one to four kilograms — is ready for the pot or skillet or foil jacket .
17 So you often see on nature programmes , for example , when a bird comes back to a nest with several chicks in , you see the parental bird kind of poking its , its beak in the in the gaping beaks of all the chicks .
18 RIGHT Mandarin comes back to a hero 's welcome .
19 No no he comes back as a ghost just to I think he comes back
20 And once you 've done it at school , it comes back with a bit of an effort quite quickly .
21 The man at the door goes into the theatre and comes back with a map .
22 Andy comes back with a glass of milk .
23 Right well that 's no problem er when your wife comes back in an hour 's time
24 You can lie and lie beautifully , but sooner or later the truth comes back like a wave and sweeps everything before it .
25 Withdrawal from nicotine brings back with a vengeance the symptoms that the cigarettes were probably introduced to tackle : bad temper , poor concentration , and craving for sweet foods .
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