Example sentences of "[vb infin] back [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not invest money which you may need back at short notice . |
| 2 | You are going to reach your weight and inch target , and when you do , unless you have another goal to aim for , you may well let your fitness campaign relax and fall back into old habits . |
| 3 | Then gradually the person 's level of anxiety will fall back to normal levels from point B in Figure 4.8 . |
| 4 | The USA had no system of social security against the ravages of sickness or unemployment — no " dole " as in Britain , on which people could fall back in bad times . |
| 5 | Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the success of the Government 's policy is also to do with the banning of secondary picketing , which the Labour party would bring back with open arms ? |
| 6 | We also yes I must remind you that we have read the papers so I do n't necessarily want to go through it word by word line by line er but obviously when you want to make a point you will refer back to those papers but do n't you must assume that we have read them and that everybody else has read them . |
| 7 | We will refer back to these examples later in the book . |
| 8 | Your correspondent could refer back to Northern Echo archives and CSE , but meanwhile he should let the Sydney Harbour Bridge remain as part of the history of the now defunct Dorman Long group and of Middlesbrough . |
| 9 | Why should the House take seriously any patients charter that does not give back to those patients the right to choose their hospital — a right that they had until the Government took it away ? |
| 10 | The K mesons live long enough to produce tracks in the CLEO detector , so the team could work back from detected K mesons to hunt for those that seemed likely to have originated from a B meson . |
| 11 | He said the MMC , which last conducted an inquiry into the CAA in 1983 , must report back within five months . |
| 12 | Now you 're gon na get on and read it and you can report back in ten minutes and I do n't want any questions . |
| 13 | He indicated he would ring back with more instructions . |
| 14 | If we fail to take this opportunity Mr Mayor , as I as I feel we are about to do I am a hundred percent convinced that in years to come people will look back at this year , or however long it happens to be and say they missed out on a golden opportunity to make social , to make more houses and to make social housing better in this city and across the country . |
| 15 | And in 1944 when Cole wrote his book as part of the Movement 's centenary tribute to the Rochdale Pioneers , when Consumers ' Co-operation could still look back on many decades of unbroken success , it would have been as natural for him to suppose that the Pioneers had in this respect been mistaken and that their mistake stood in need of explanation . |
| 16 | Sun-tanned , fit and contented , we could look back on fourteen days of carefree cruising ; four hundred miles through some of the finest scenery in the British Isles with the freedom of the hills for good measure . |
| 17 | They 'll look back on that opening forty minutes as a period of massively missed opportunity . |
| 18 | She could look back on that time with a great deal of fondness ; it had been one of the few times in her life when she had been truly free — there had been no one , neither family , friends nor employer — to make demands on her . |
| 19 | Now , when life is so precious , I can look back on that period with shocked amazement . |
| 20 | Helping an elderly parent through her sorrow can be a long , hard haul , but very rewarding in the end — not only in terms of her recovery , but also because , if you find yourself in the same position in later years , you will look back on this experience you shared with her and find that it has left you with a far deeper understanding of grief , and a greater confidence in the healing power of time to see you through your own period of adjustment to loss . |
| 21 | I think I will look back on this day and think , I really had quite a distressing haircut did n't I , but also that this was the first day I was introduced to the humour of Vic and Bob . |
| 22 | He could always look back on bad things . |
| 23 | I I I think erm a lot of teachers would now look back on those days with er a certain fondness now bearing in mind what 's what 's happened since and the the the succession of education secretaries we 've had since since then I mean had the only one in recent years who I would say has attempted a genuine dialogue with the teachers and tried to do something constructive is John McGregor . |
| 24 | Yet they , as other immigrants , would look back with much sadness and refer wistfully to that poxy , Cossack-infested country as ‘ der heim ’ ( the homeland , the old country ) . |
| 25 | 1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure . |
| 26 | If we miss each other we 'll meet back in this office in three hours . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ In that case , ’ said Jaq , ‘ let us drop back into true space . ’ |
| 28 | There is the damage to government systems of social responsibility which may slide back into selfish chaos . |
| 29 | So you know it , it , it 's just , they will actually , the interesting bit is that they 'll only move back to that equilibrium point as you fall down towards them . |
| 30 | We must move back to higher ground above the fog . ’ |