Example sentences of "[to-vb] back at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they say we 've got to pay it , well then I 'll have to come back at the council meeting . |
| 2 | She used the cry of her voice to draw them to her , allowing them first to fly away and then encouraging them to swoop back at the height of their arc of flight . |
| 3 | Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself . |
| 4 | They began to fall back towards Ace and Petion , pausing where there was cover to shoot back at the Germans on the freighters or on the other side of the docks . |
| 5 | The Maggot said with inappropriate exultation , then twisted his head to stare back at the island . |
| 6 | I managed to glare back at the boy , who went on chewing . |
| 7 | If you like to look back at the cathedral office in an hour , I 'll see it 's ready for you . |
| 8 | The leaves on the thorn trees were almost open , and when we turned to look back at the distance we 'd climbed , there were clusters of vivid green that trailed down the hillside and encompassed the village like waterweed . |
| 9 | All turned to look back at the door as the footsteps approached on the flagstones . |
| 10 | Involuntarily Wycliffe turned to look back at the house on stilts , but it was hidden by a bulge in the slope of the hill … |
| 11 | He covered seventy yards to gain the partial cover of the shrubbery , flung himself amongst the undergrowth , and turned to look back at the chateau . |
| 12 | They turned to look back at the emptiness they had crossed . |
| 13 | Regression enables the former child to look back at the situation through the eyes of the adult he or she has now become and to see the reality of it all . |
| 14 | Bullingdon 's governor says there 's no way every aspect of behaviour can be controlled because there 'll always be those who want to hit back at the system . |
| 15 | UN flies bodies home THE BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen were flown home to Pakistan yesterday as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days ’ . |
| 16 | BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen in Mogadishu were flown home to Pakistan as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days . ’ |
| 17 | Lofoten was chosen for this first large raid because it offered a chance to hit back at the enemy as well as such economic targets as the destruction of fish oil supplies , which might impair German manufacture of nitro-glycerine and would reduce supplies of vitamin A and B capsules issued to German troops . |
| 18 | Ruth wanted , physically , to hit back at the storm– which went on and on , which was striking at her . |
| 19 | It was , however , by now well south of the airport and , after acknowledging an air traffic control instruction to report back at the BN beacon ready for another approach , the Vanguard tracked toward the BS , another beacon which was immediately to the south of the landing runway , 16 . |
| 20 | I do n't think so no , but you know I mean , for six months if Christopher 's living here and having to go back at the weekend , for six months he gets an allowance |
| 21 | Across the road to the butcher 's where they looked in the window to see back at the reflection of Hogan 's Outfitters and realise that Sean Walsh had gone back inside to the empire that would one day be his . |
| 22 | In fact you might say that they ought to start back at the beginning and study politics and war because , looking at the world today , maybe there are a lot more useful things to study than art and architecture . |
| 23 | If we picture a vibration as a cycle , that is as equivalent to a rotation round a circle to arrive back at the beginning again , the angular distance travelled in the mathematician 's natural units is 2π . |
| 24 | From here the route continues north , up through Hall Wood to reach Carron Crag , then north for ½ mile before turning south-east to arrive back at the centre . |
| 25 | Although their dress was not equipped to deal with soaking weather and although they may have been expected to turn back at the sight of such greyness , they continued and even displayed some sense of enjoyment at the discomfort each was experiencing . |
| 26 | But after the third double Vladivar , they were eager , almost desperate , to get back at the bottle . |
| 27 | So , for example , we see the pupils messing around , ‘ to get back at the teachers for telling them off and putting them in detention , ’ or using physical violence after being unjustly accused of a misdemeanour , or being given a ‘ soft ’ teacher . |
| 28 | The Old Bailey was told he was ‘ desperately in love and wanted to get back at the woman ’ for ending their relationship . |
| 29 | Maybe it 's a ploy to get back at the people TSB calls ‘ Rich Bastards ’ for having credit cards . |
| 30 | The girl later admitted she made the story up to get back at the teacher for punishing her boyfriend . |