Example sentences of "we [vb base] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience .
2 What I do n't like is that we went back did n't we , I do n't know if you saw my thing to David where we report back on a fax , report every month
3 We head back to the apartment only when the day folds in around us for good .
4 We walk back through the park and disperse : tonight they 're going to a party , it 's Paul from The Soup Dragons ’ birthday .
5 He laughs again , and as the light is fading we walk back to the village , past small boys running hurdy-gurdies ; he teaching me plant names for which I can find no translation .
6 ‘ I 'd just like you to understand the problems we have … we do the best we can , ’ sighs Soliz as we walk back to the bus stop .
7 Then we cut back to the newsreader .
8 If we look back over the record of the last twenty years in our ten countries , we may detect certain common trends , unspectacular , but nevertheless significant .
9 John Howard , acutely aware of such slippage , argued that good staff and external vigilance were essential if reform efforts were to be sustained , but this view , as we look back over the last two centuries , may have been unduly optimistic .
10 This is clear if we look back over the years .
11 If we look back over the past twenty-five years or so , we can distinguish three main phases :
12 And it 's also important that we look back over the last ten years to how the N H S has been fundamentally changed as a consequence of Tory government policy towards it .
13 We have all sorts of remaining problems but by and large , if we look back over the past three four years , tremendous progress has been made .
14 And quite clearly there is a lot of work that needs to be done because if we look back on the discussion this afternoon , er this morning er and this evening , quite clearly there are conflicting views and conflicting interpretations about various criteria , various elements of information that should er er should go into the mix .
15 This is ambitious , and if we look back at the scope of the information skills , it is subversive to present-day teaching .
16 If we look back at the exchange between the piano movers , for example , we can see that the verbs ( 's goin , 's got to take , ai n't goin' , do n't , come on ) are all in the present ( although they refer to the future ) .
17 As the date of the General Election approaches , we look back at the Tories ' record on housing and mortgage rates .
18 If we look back at the previous example of the combustion of methane , we see that the enthalpy term was far larger than the entropy term .
19 Still , we make fun of the titanic , we look back at the romans-christians thing with a sense of romance … why not the munich ‘ disaster ’ .
20 In the first of three parts we look back at the working life of country people featured in ’ Twenty-Four Square Miles ’
21 The Agency 's work strategy has , has been made available to members , and erm , I think if we look back to a previous Committee , where the er , information was provided , that we had been successful .
22 While later law , for example , once familiar with trusts may have practised great toleration , if we look back to the origins of Roman trusts and their tentative beginnings with the rise of a consular jurisdiction , it does not seem at all plausible that absolutely any expression or gesture would immediately have been accepted .
23 If we look back to the middle years of the nineteenth century and to the debates about the extension of the franchise to the working class then hopes were expressed as to how voters should behave at the same time as there was anxiety and fear as to how they would actually behave .
24 When we look back to the present , it will be perfectly clear that in many sectors of the economy , the recovery has indeed started .
25 ‘ The H-bomb looms ahead , ’ remarked the critic William Whitebait , ‘ and we dare n't look at it , we creep back to the lacerating comfort of ‘ last time ’ ’ .
26 We disappear back into the forest .
27 and what we 're trying to do is plough whatever we get back into the group
28 But now , we get back on the road .
29 They need a touch of resin he decides , but as he has none it will have to wait until we get back to the camp .
30 By the time we get back to the tent Stig is limping badly and when Odd-Knut looks he finds he is bleeding profusely .
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