Example sentences of "[vb infin] back [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | You ca n't save calculations , but you can track back through a chain of arithmetic , alter figures , and see the alterations reflected in the final sum . |
| 2 | We could just fall back on a bit of sweets and chocolate or something in the end but I 'd like to get some |
| 3 | ‘ I think we 'd better head back to a city , you know . |
| 4 | Alternatively , you can rock back into a cat stance knocking the opponent 's punch down with a slapping block performed with the rear hand . |
| 5 | Together , we can look back on a year of consider- able success , and forward to a new year of challenge . |
| 6 | The British landed gentry can look back on a past filled with special glories due to the responsibilities of their rank . |
| 7 | And you and I , perhaps , we can look back to a day in our life when it was our birthday , as far as that is concerned and God filled us with his Holy Spirit , we received the gift of the Holy Spirit , we were baptized in the Holy Spirit . |
| 8 | erm , because you do n't stay back for a drink afterwards because you 're going to Strawberry Hill . |
| 9 | When you do speak to your target people , it is important to emphasize that all you want is the person 's opinion and that you will phone back in a couple of weeks to find out what they think . |
| 10 | The pendulum will swing back with a pope of another complexion and a new phase of more radical reform will curb the structures of ultramontanism in a way Vatican II almost wholly failed to do . |
| 11 | On the reverse Jarrett had written : I 'll call back in a couple of hours . |
| 12 | I think it will be , there will now , we will go back to a subject specific report because we we 're obliged to have national curriculum details |
| 13 | However , as a ‘ courageous ’ cut and sewer , as well as being a past owner of a Brother Electronic with garter carriage which casts off automatically , I decided that I would never go back to a latch tool cast off and that it was a waste of time in any case if I was intending to cut the fabric ! |
| 14 | Many explanations have been given for the careful measurements and statistical information so frequent in Wordsworth 's early poetry , for example : but surely even this may ultimately go back to a desire to placate the scientific and Lockean tradition . |
| 15 | I try to babysit for different people ; sometimes I 'm so embarrassed I ca n't go back to a place . |
| 16 | But it would need a sixty percent vote on the council , and once they 'd do made the switch , they could n't switch back to a system by thirds for ten years . |
| 17 | But without the help of clock or compass , the terns will arrive back within a day or two of the same date each year , around 6th May . |
| 18 | County Durham 's old folk have a possible means of ensuring greater attention from the council , however : should reincarnation occur , they can come back as a dog in a drain . |
| 19 | You will come back for a cup of coffee , wo n't you ? |
| 20 | Mr Rochester is always very popular with the ladies at these parties , so he may not come back for a week or so . ’ |
| 21 | he did n't really like it , but he had a lovely week , but at least we did n't come back to a house that 's full of |
| 22 | Bill , could I come back to a quotation by another former Tory Prime Minister in the nineteen sixties , erm they were ragging old Douglas Hume unmercifully , the Labour Party did , when he was made Prime Minister , and , you know , erm all 's fair in politics , and Harold Wilson , I think , made the comment that the democracy of this country had ground to a halt with the appointment of the fourteenth earl , and Douglas Hume , in his sort of very self-deprecating way and his very modest way , says ‘ well , you know , I suppose if one were to ask , he 's probably the fourteenth Mr Wilson ’ . |
| 23 | It 's all right , sweetie , I 'm not coming back with a bone through my nose , but I might come back with a bit less of a bone in my head . |
| 24 | We are looking at Road , that 's the assurance , we are considering that er as er an extension but there is n't funding available for that within the present programme so we will come back with a proposal for Road but it will have to be compared with other big schemes so the scheme we are proposing now is the one that 's before you , which er I wo n't comment on unless people have questions . |
| 25 | Erm no seriously I think it really should n't take long , you 're quite right to sort this matter out but I think three people really should go away and come back with a suggestion or a couple of suggestions . |
| 26 | Our job is to go over there and come back with a result which keeps everything alive for us in the second leg at Parkhead . ’ |
| 27 | They 'll come back with a bang . |
| 28 | Sometimes she would come back with a posy of flowers , other times she would just spend an hour deep in meditation . |
| 29 | It did n't come back with a refusal and allow us to discuss alternative ways of achieving our objective . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd come back from a trip to Australia with pictures of the aborigines ’ march during the Bicentenary Day ‘ celebrations ’ . |