Example sentences of "do not [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Patel did not wave back . |
| 2 | An agitated old lady addressed Ramsey severely and asked why he did not go back to his own country and do good there instead of stirring up trouble in the United States . |
| 3 | He did not go back . |
| 4 | They did not go back to ‘ living together ’ even in the purely conceptual sense of many academic couples they knew , separated by their jobs . |
| 5 | Full of wine , afterwards , Paul did not go back with Chase to the lodging . |
| 6 | And again , if he wanted to alter a painting later after its completion , if he did not go back to the first idea and atmosphere of conception , he could never make the alteration a success . |
| 7 | For many weeks Kee did not go back to the graveyard . |
| 8 | But she did not go back to the kitchen . |
| 9 | So the budget fixed for the current year was £20 million and the £7 million underspent in the first two years of the scheme did not go back to the Treasury — it was not lost to computerisation — but was committed to the further development of GP computerisation . |
| 10 | He was frequently sick , though the doctor could find nothing physically wrong with him , took to borrowing money which he did not pay back , and was averse to working or changing his clothes . |
| 11 | For Christine , a nursery school teacher living near Manchester , now that most the ‘ teething troubles ’ with Anna are over , there is only one sadness : that she did not bring back a second child . |
| 12 | His father told him he had never come closer to disobeying an order in his life , but he was finally persuaded to do so because it was pointed out to him that if the British Army did not send back the Cossacks , the Soviets would not send back British POWs . |
| 13 | Carolyn did not move back to her mother 's , as Bryony ( who perhaps would never stop being jealous ; Clare 's mistakes were as often with women as men ) had hoped , and as Clare herself had half expected . |
| 14 | ‘ They told me that as long as I did not rush back too quickly , I should have another four or five years . |
| 15 | Mr Pozsgay did not rush back . |
| 16 | The videos focused on individuals and their themes and this did not feed back into departmental meetings and certainly not into a whole-school context . |
| 17 | The world lay all before them and , from Liz 's point of view most importantly , its roads did not lead back , to Northam . |
| 18 | Ortega 's defeat crushed a lot of left-wing supporters around the world , but it did not set back Gould , who immediately plunged himself into a new project . |
| 19 | He was and is extremely honest about his feelings towards the use of drugs , and he did not hold back when questioned on this highly emotive topic . |
| 20 | As usual , Derek Jefferson did not hold back in his praise of his own products . |
| 21 | A kiss where she raised her lips to his , and he did not hold back from moving his head down to hers , and , as her heart started to sing , so her arms went up and around him . |
| 22 | She let everything out , she did not hold back , she no longer had anything to fear for she had the support of the women behind her . |
| 23 | A massive demonstration of trade union muscle on Saturday , when 5,000 placard-waving supporters gathered in the city square , heard the stakes in the dispute raised dramatically with a call to shut the factory for good if management did not take back the 340 strikers . |
| 24 | The one behind her did not fall back , or pass her . |
| 25 | But the young hedgehog , if she heard , did not turn back . |
| 26 | But there was hesitation and doubt in his voice , and she did not turn back . |
| 27 | It did no more , said the Fund , because Russia did not rein back mounting inflation — and Western money might have piled up in bank balances abroad . |
| 28 | In August 1918 my father was recalled to London to report to the Foreign Office and he did not get back until mid-December . |
| 29 | Needless to say , he did not get back to her . |
| 30 | He did not look back . |