Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [vb -s] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sprightly 81 years old , this English engineer and inventor looks back with satisfaction on a lifetime as an explorer of the heavens , the Earth , and the limits of the technically feasible . |
| 2 | ‘ The de Sciorto name and title goes back to the sixteenth century . |
| 3 | It drifts back up to join the clouds and sweetness comes back to the day . |
| 4 | The answer is that after mating they produce a tiny mobile larvae totally different to the adult this might drift for miles on ocean current before settling into the fixed adult form Down Norwick power station in North Wales , generates the electricity by pump storage , in off peak hours thousands of gallons of water are pumped from a lower lake to an upper lake , when the demand for electricity is high bowels are opened and water falls back through turbine to the lower lake again , this generates the power To ensure that the lower lake would never flood the was diverted through mile long tunnel in the mountain side , no one knew for certain how the salmon , the trout and even rarer that used to migrate up the old river would cope with the tunnels , pitch darkness and slow flowing water . |
| 5 | Thus progress always overreaches itself and mankind falls back into a new barbarism . |
| 6 | And word gets back to apostles in Jerusalem . |
| 7 | It takes some time , and a few false tries ( you may well ask why a solitary hoopoe bird is even now patrolling the Solent with the sacred shamir-stone in its beak ) but , eventually , the proper chapter and verse comes back to me . |