Example sentences of "and [vb base] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm crying a bit as I try and stick the pieces together , but I ca n't do it so I just leave them on the floor and sit back in the chair . |
| 2 | Not only was she a founder of Playschool , and responsible for commissioning Postman Pat , Bertha the Big Machine and Charlie Chalk for the BBC ; but when Playschool came under threat she formed her own independent production company to make — and sell back to the BBC — a modern replacement for it : the current Playdays ( first known as Playbus ) . |
| 3 | Return to pan , stir in the Madeira , season and bring back to the boil . |
| 4 | You have two options , you either accept that or you reject it , and send back to the people involved saying this is not completed . |
| 5 | I take a deep breath and head back into the eye of the storm , careening down side-streets when police barricades and fire hoses block the main avenues . |
| 6 | Descend and head back into the forest going south-west then south to post 21 . |
| 7 | I 've had enough of the lights , so we turn round and head back to the house . |
| 8 | Outside the venue , the Inspirals climb into their cramped tour van and head back to the hotel exuding quiet satisfaction . |
| 9 | Here they spend the next 5 months until the short rains in November when they gradually form columns and head back to the shortgrass plains . |
| 10 | Ranulf sprang up , pleased to abandon the fresh air of the country and head back to the seamy streets of London and the rounded pleasure-giving body of Mistress Semplar . |
| 11 | An attack would have been tantamount to committing suicide , so reluctantly Stirling gave orders to leave the town and head back for the rendezvous with the LRDG . |
| 12 | The Six agreed to hold an intergovernmental committee , to be headed by the tireless Paul-Henri Spaak , which would consider , flesh out and report back on the various proposals . |
| 13 | An Outreach scheme has been devised which divides the parish into six areas , each manned by teams of church members whose job it is to identify ways in which they can provide help and report back to the church . |
| 14 | Kirk elders were instructed to visit offenders and report back to the Session . |
| 15 | It will be handed to the working party of East Hampshire Road Safety Council who have to investigate , and report back to the matter to their main committee by April 15th . |
| 16 | If he can not accept it , can he at least dispatch a team of Scottish Office officials to see matters on the ground and report back to the Scottish Office on the grim situation faced by the islands ? |
| 17 | The local authority must complete the investigation and report back to the court within eight weeks unless the court directs otherwise . |
| 18 | But before she could continue , he was brushing past her roughtly , almost causing her to stagger and stumble back down the steps . |
| 19 | I finish my tea and climb back into the Toyota . |
| 20 | He had but three vessels left and despite urgent pleas from his men — now demoralized again , fretful once they realized another ship was gone — to abandon the voyage and sail back to the Guadalquivir , he pressed on north-westwards , passing through scenery of a wild grandeur and beauty he had never known before . |
| 21 | ‘ I shall start the bagpipes here and walk back down the hill towards the woods , playing as I go . ’ |
| 22 | They rise and walk back down the valley . |
| 23 | There was nothing for it but to try to make their way on foot out of the town and walk back to the rendezvous with Robin Gurdon . |
| 24 | We stuff the damp ropes into our sacks and walk back to the car , this time on the right path . |
| 25 | The road would be turning east soon , and taking them back to the main road so that they could turn south and walk back to the house . |
| 26 | With any luck I 'd have time to dry my hair and dive back into the satin whatsits before he arrived . |
| 27 | Hold the tape measure loosely round the pulled back curtain and hold back against the hook . |
| 28 | I replace the spare rounds in the small cardboard box , look around for where to put them , then slip them into my jacket pocket , and ease back into the comfortable armchair . |
| 29 | Slightly overbend it and bend back to the correct angle |
| 30 | And welcome back to the lunch time phone in , I 'm John Simpson here now for another twenty eight minutes , and if you want to join in the discussion you can ring on Oxford three double one , one double one . |