Example sentences of "[to-vb] back [coord] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tripped over a fallen body and this gave Balliol sufficient time to jump back and slam the door shut behind him . |
| 2 | However , it is clearly impossible for us all to stand back and watch the booksellers ' position , in total terms , being undermined by some publishers ' double standards . |
| 3 | He will have little opportunity to stand back and examine the data in the cool light of the academic ‘ ivory tower ’ . |
| 4 | Then I force myself to stand back and assess the situation . |
| 5 | The need for patience and the ability to stand back and let the groups reach their own decisions became new management skills . |
| 6 | We have suggested that a feature of leadership is the ability to stand back and take the wider perspective . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps Nigel had come earlier and killed him and then arranged to come back and find the body . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It is not easy to give a two goal leaf away to First Division and then show the character to come back and win the game . |
| 9 | ‘ It is not easy to give a two-goal lead away to a First Division side and then show the character to come back and win the game . |
| 10 | In this situation you are bound to pull back and apply the aileron and rudder to stop the nose and wing from dropping . |
| 11 | Thorfinn said , ‘ Why should we lose men ? ’ and had the signal blown : to pull back and allow the enemy to withdraw . |
| 12 | I 've been looking at some of the old programmes that some of the fans brought from those shows , and it was interesting to look back and see the people that I travelled with . ’ |
| 13 | Digital Biometrics Inc , Minnetonka , Minnesota maker of electronic fingerprint systems says it has filed an amended registration statement with the US Securities & Exchange Commission to increase its shares of common stock to 2m — the public currently holds 1.0m and another 1.0m shares are held by the its principal shareholder ; proceeds from the latest offering will be used to buy back and cancel the principal shareholder 's shares . |
| 14 | We 'd compare this inside view of machismo with the deconstruction of masculinity in Scorsese 's films : in Taxi Driver , for example , we 're drawn into vicarious participation in a spectacular massacre , only for the camera to draw back and reveal the real carnage , suffering and shock that such an exercise of male power entails . |
| 15 | The person gathering the data would first have to register the churches ; then they would have to go back and record the sculptures kept in each ; it would take another visit to catalogue the paintings ; another for the liturgical vestments , and so on . |
| 16 | It is not open to the promisor to go back and undo the loss ; he is able only to make it good , and this can be done only by an award of damages in the amount of the promisee 's interest . |
| 17 | If , however , you find yourself carrying three or four such problems it seems clear that there is nothing for it but to go back and attack the first difficulties again . |
| 18 | If that 's clear we then need to go back and attack the hiatus hernia with more erm , but we 'd better get your chest sorted out first . |
| 19 | Issues such as the abolition of capital punishment or the legislation on abortion inevitably revealed a picture of an open , competitive pattern of politics where the state was often content to sit back and referee the group struggle . |
| 20 | To do otherwise , would be to sit back and watch the raison d'etre of conglomeration being reversed by a misplaced process of reregulation ; that would be to give with one hand , and take with the other . |
| 21 | It was n't jerky , just a little unsettling , and Maxim might not have been asking so many questions if he 'd been able to sit back and watch the countryside flow past . |
| 22 | Stay here and , within a very short time , it is easy to sit back and imagine the life and traditional ways of the peasants who once toiled here and in the hills all around . |
| 23 | Kirov said nothing , content to sit back and let the full impact of his well-constructed lie sink in . |
| 24 | So I was quite happy to sit back and let the other guests talk when they came on . |
| 25 | A tacit collusion is set up between narrator and reader not to take the novel too solemnly , but rather to sit back and enjoy the show . |
| 26 | With this new approach we are able to sit back and enjoy the delightful escapades of young kittens at play without any moral posturing . |
| 27 | Are we meant to hang back and let the opposition run at us ? |
| 28 | The art of winning is knowing when to push hard , when to pump or when to hold back and keep the power in reserve . |
| 29 | I speak from experience , as my wife and I had to turn back and miss the December 1990 meeting . |
| 30 | Would Doctor Bissett be so kind as to call back and arrange the appointment ? |