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 | Intent and unafraid , Dr. Sylvia Earle never turns back from a challenge . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | It works with standard audio input devices like microphones , disks and cassette tapes , and plays back on a variety of devices . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Liz 's anger towards Raquel dates back to a charity dinner this year . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | RIGHT Mandarin comes back to a hero 's welcome . |
| 16 | No no he comes back as a ghost just to I think he comes back |
| 17 | And once you 've done it at school , it comes back with a bit of an effort quite quickly . |
| 18 | The man at the door goes into the theatre and comes back with a map . |
| 19 | Andy comes back with a glass of milk . |
| 20 | You can lie and lie beautifully , but sooner or later the truth comes back like a wave and sweeps everything before it . |
| 21 | 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 . |