Example sentences of "back [conj] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish with all my heart that I could go back and change that time , but I ca n't , I just ca n't . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps it too , thought Rowbotham would be able to reach back and tap that radical tradition . |
| 3 | So when would be the best time for me to come back and present these ideas to you ? |
| 4 | ‘ The trouble with using a Hasselblad is that you black out after each shot , and in the first session I 'd cut off the arms in one or two shots , so I had to go back and re-shoot those . |
| 5 | ‘ You mean you think Harry will go back and marry that Cora-Beth girl ? ’ |
| 6 | See the thing is , what they 've said to me , because I 've been away now for nearly two years erm I 'd have to go back and do all the training again , which is a bit of a pain but its not too bad because I 've done it before sort of thing , she said to me oh yeah when you go I , I might come along and see if I like it , and we can do the training together she said , I manage to put her off that idea , manage to talk her out of that . |
| 7 | But er even if it did n't work we well it would n't be the end of the line financially for us but at the end of the day I think you know we 've always wanted to know we could go back and do that you know . |
| 8 | Dave Thomas , one of the course 's original designers and the man who is responsible for making the alterations , said : ‘ It is very exciting when you can go back and do some of the things you would liked to have done originally . |
| 9 | Well you can go back and watch that thing now ca n't you ? |
| 10 | The British Government have become spineless jellyfish who seem prepared to stand back and watch these Marxist death squads murdering their way through the people of Ulster not doing anything too ‘ adventurous ’ in case they upset friends in Dublin . |
| 11 | I 've been coming to conference for the last fifteen years to help build the grand union which we 've got today and I 'm not gon na sit back and watch this carved up , for nobody , for nobody . |
| 12 | It would be difficult to go back and admit this . |
| 13 | She must go back and eat that . |
| 14 | I hope the firm in its restructuring will continue to fight back and retain this long-established engineering business in the town . ’ |
| 15 | He 'd come back and make another excuse to keep me hanging around . |
| 16 | Later when the video is finished they will all sit back and view each of the attempts and learn from the mistakes . |
| 17 | But , instead of being able to sit back and enjoy this baby , she has also to look after the other children who may only just have left the baby stage themselves . |
| 18 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 19 | Well I , he 'll go back and find another door er , er back up to where he lives . |
| 20 | I wanted to search , to come back and find some trace of my father . ’ |
| 21 | to go back and get some physiotherapy . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd better get back and get some work done , ’ she said to anybody who was interested . |
| 23 | Later , his parents would look back and see this moment as an early warning of the nightmare that was to consume them . |
| 24 | ’ ‘ Well , you 'd better go back and have another one . ’ |
| 25 | So you have to go back and have another shirt . |
| 26 | I in the shorter run erm often suggestion therapy will work , but seldom in the long run and er then it needs reinforcement you need to go back and have more . |
| 27 | The implications of this discussion is that we should go back and re-evaluate all aspects of the sociology of youth — youth cultures , popular music , education , employment , unemployment , training — in terms of the kinds of assumptions that are being made . |
| 28 | The EC would n't stand back and take this American action . |
| 29 | ‘ And you think Cawthorne will just sit back and take this ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It 's certain the van wo n't go under the bridge , ’ said the driver of the van gloomily , coming up , ‘ so we 'll have to go back and take another road . ’ |