Example sentences of "back [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These perfumed transvestites draw away rival males and sneak back to mate with the females . |
| 2 | They were among a few people who came back to see over the property again quite a few times , and I met their sons . |
| 3 | And when they gave over I ventured back to see from the hillside , where there was some cover . |
| 4 | He set a course for Omsk and cut in the automatic pilot , settling back to cope with the chain of niggling worries that his blunder had triggered off . |
| 5 | The little boy went back to sit on the stairs with his seven brothers . |
| 6 | Mike 's voice , commanding , imperative , had him reluctantly obeying its uncompromising call as he ran lightly back to sit in the car in readiness to leave the pits and take his place on the grid . |
| 7 | Er and they have forced erm their union to aban or the shop workers have forced their union to abandon its previous policy erm and back opening on the sabbath . |
| 8 | Still looking doubtful , she went off to fill the order , and when Ellie had eaten it all , down to the very last scrap , and had two cups of coffee , she came back to stand at the table , full of admiration and amazement . |
| 9 | I had become more and more interested in the business world , going back to work at the bank in Newcastle during my vacations , so I was looking for a general business career . ’ |
| 10 | In fact , liberal or not , she has come back to work for the ANC , though her exact capacity is not made clear . |
| 11 | So it will be back to work on the Algarve this week when Payne bids to win the Portuguese Open , a tournament that provided Montgomerie with his first success in 1989 . |
| 12 | Having eaten her lunch quickly , Tess went back to work with the harvesters in the cornfield until it was dark . |
| 13 | Then , there was nothing else to be done except get back to work in the cutting room at Paramount where he was working around the clock on The Two Jakes , for which the world of movie entertainment was waiting with bated breath ; because even though all of the above makes fascinating reading for everyone intrigued by Hollywood 's pop royalty , especially one so colourful and mercurial as Nicholson , it is the mere trivia , the overcoat of gloss and glitz , that hides the real Jack Nicholson … |
| 14 | News of the transfer produced a steady drift back to work in the Kuzbass and Vorkuta coalfields in the first days of May , at the same time as the strike in the Ukraine 's Donbass coalfield began to crumble . |
| 15 | ‘ People are coming back to work in the office downstairs from Monday , you know . |
| 16 | And really it was no joking matter : across the bridge John Chapman , nephew to a Market Place shoemaker , went back to work in the shop too soon after the flood , caught a chill in the process , and died in the April , aged just twenty-one . |
| 17 | One woman described how she had gone back to work after the death of her husband , determined to be brave . |
| 18 | ‘ Robert did n't say I must go back to work after the baby ’ , Lucy told me , ‘ but he began to be reluctant about switching on electric fires and looking disapproving if I did ’ . |
| 19 | If you go back to work before the end of 28 weeks and are then absent again , Statutory Sick Pay will be payable for each period of absence until your 28 weeks ' entitlement has been exhausted , provided you have not been back at work for more than 8 weeks . |
| 20 | He slammed into a wall , his head snapping back to crack against the plaster , then he fell forward . |
| 21 | The brown egg struck the wall behind Delaney 's head with a clang and whirled back to bounce on the top of the radio bench . |
| 22 | He was looking skywards the way he did as a player : he would flick at the ball with the outside of his left foot while leaning back looking at the sky . |
| 23 | Finally , if you find your mind wanders on to other thoughts during the exercise bring it back to focus on the feelings . |
| 24 | Willie turned back to look at the comics so that he missed the surprised expression on his face . |
| 25 | Turning back to look at the door , he could see no manual locking mechanism — only a circular brass inset that seemed to need a special key . |
| 26 | At the end of the day it is good to be able to think that as you step back to look at the work — especially if you remember to get down from the ladder first . |
| 27 | He showed her the caving ones first , and then they paused for supper before going back to look at the ones of his son . |
| 28 | Cardiff spun back to look at the windows to see if that bizarre shifting and swirling of shadows was somehow caused by a lightning flash through the glass panes . |
| 29 | He spent ten minutes attaching markers to the map , then sat back to look at the result . |
| 30 | I went back to look through the view-panel , an felt my stomach go into zerograv . |