Example sentences of "back [adv] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , when we got back rather later than usual , my father was already preparing to send out a search party in — as I thought then , not knowing about Grandma 's lapses — his usual agitated way . |
| 2 | Of course , the Cardiff bay barrage proposal goes back much further than that . |
| 3 | She 'd come back much earlier than expected . |
| 4 | We 'll go back inside anyway when these gentlemen have gone past and . |
| 5 | Look back to-day more than sixty years on . |
| 6 | The students who , in the training trials , heard the buzz half a second before the shock , jerked their finger back more consistently than those who had had a longer gap between the buzz and the shock during training , and they did so much more markedly than those who heard the buzz at the time of the shock or after it ( see Fig. 24.1 ) . |
| 7 | I 'm not gon na go back any further than that . |
| 8 | In all but a few our taxonomic knowledge is based on expedition reports dating back often more than 50 years . |
| 9 | I will get a job and pay you back as soon as possible . |
| 10 | And in any case they wanted them back as soon as possible , and there would be the interest to pay . |
| 11 | The flower spikes are also cream and green and the flowers blue , but these should be cut back as soon as possible to encourage more of those huge basal leaves to develop . |
| 12 | I 'm just concerned about his injury and I hope he 's back as soon as possible . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I picked up my teeth from the pitch and wanted to play on , but a dental consultant from the crowd advised me to have them put back as soon as possible ’ — JAMES CHANDLER ( Bedford wing ) after the Pilkington Cup home defeat by Harlequins when he was alleged to have been punched by an England flanker . |
| 14 | I thought that , if I 'd just come from the Sahara to here , I 'd head back as soon as possible , family duties or not . |
| 15 | ‘ Valerie , ’ he said to me , ‘ I 'll have to take these two to my mother again , ’ at which the little ones set up an ungrateful wail , ‘ but I 'll be back as soon as possible . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'd better get you back as soon as possible , ’ said Grimma . |
| 17 | ‘ Obviously you should get back as soon as possible . ’ |
| 18 | If you have to go out to earn a living or live up to commitments and promises you should aim to get back as soon as possible . |
| 19 | We do not appear to have received this year 's Statistics Form with details of your classes , and would be very grateful if you could send it back as soon as possible . |
| 20 | The thin man returned to his earlier plan that they should cut loose the horses and make their way back as inconspicuously as possible by the paths and game-tracks . |
| 21 | So having got back to Egypt ( and he was being harried from one end of the Western Desert to the other by Rommel ) Boyce found himself in a caravan which was his headquarters and also where he lived when he received an order to hare back as fast as possible to El Alamein . |
| 22 | ‘ The way we conceded goals at Coventry was very hard to take and I 'm looking for us to bounce back as quickly as possible . |
| 23 | We shall come back as quickly as possible and take you to the Hall . |
| 24 | The Ness is shallow and peaceful , and the murmur of its flowing falls plaintively on the ear , in sympathy with the song of the birds , and the summer tintings of the trees , and the musings of those who seem to love each turning in the paths ; while the waters of the rapids of Niagara make the onlooker hold back his breath , and keep back as far as possible from the wild leaping of the swift-rushing waters . |
| 25 | Another area used in attack is the ball of the foot , whose effectiveness depends upon the toes being bent back as far as possible . |
| 26 | So Alice refused all offers of alcohol from the solicitous hostess in First Class , rejected the proffered magazines , donned her eyepads , and lay back as far as possible in what the airline liked to call her armchair . |
| 27 | Abel Goumba of the Front patriotique oubanguien — Parti du travail said that the " regime appears to be using stalling tactics to push it back as far as possible " and that the opposition would increase its activities to press for the conference to be convened earlier . |
| 28 | Once a Roman colony , Rimini 's history stretches back as far as 268 BC . |
| 29 | For example , Bracey ( 1958 ) in a study of 375 Somerset parishes found that , in general , the more remote and less well serviced parishes were those with the worst and most persistent depopulation , and findings like this only encouraged the further development of theories of settlement concentration in the 1960s although these can also be traced back as far as 1918 , when Peake ( 1918 ) advocated equally-spaced villages with populations of between 1,000 and 1,500 people . |
| 30 | This trade-off was based on the original observations by Professor A. W. Phillips of the relationship between the rate of change of money wage rates and unemployment levels over long periods of time going back as far as 1861 . |