Example sentences of "back [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that , says Mr Gardner , Miss Richardson will come racing back to attend the December premieres in Paris and London of Damage , the Louis Malle adaption of Josephine Hart 's novel about a middle-aged man obsessed with his son 's fiancee , in which she stars with Jeremy Irons . |
| 2 | erm when you that you intend going back to plant the seed , how have you found today 's been ? some benefit etcetera etcetera etcetera and . |
| 3 | Beyond the gutter shouting children pursued the polished carriages that rattled towards the rue de la Blanchisserie , but the coachmen were experts with their long whips which snapped sharply back to drive the urchins off . |
| 4 | Why come back to kill the kid ? ’ |
| 5 | Mr Gillespie wrote back accepting the contents of the letter but since his 65th birthday he has refused to hand over the shares . |
| 6 | It may be worth noting that Heath himself in another article extends his time-scale further back to include the reforms of the first decade of the twentieth century . |
| 7 | After so many forced cancellations over the years , it was a rare joy to welcome this vigorous , athletic figure back to conduct the LPO in what with most conductors would have been a run-of-the-mill Festival Hall programme , but which with Tennstedt in charge became an exhilarating drive . |
| 8 | ‘ Thanks be to God , ’ I said and settled back to enjoy the drive . |
| 9 | Sitting back to enjoy the mid-morning sun the bobbin on the rod with corn on started jumping up to the butt and a quick strike saw the first fish of the session go screaming off up the lake . |
| 10 | Jackie settled back to enjoy the story . |
| 11 | She left early , bought a day return , and sat back to enjoy the journey . |
| 12 | Mountain View , California-based Drexler Technology Corp says it has informed Sony Corp that it believes Sony infringed its patents with a a new eight-track Dynamic Digital Sound system to be introduced this summer in Columbia Picture 's ‘ Last Action Hero ’ movie : Drexler has two patents on the reading of high density optical data in a strip format and believes the two patents may be infringed each time digital sound from the movie track is played back using the Sony system . |
| 13 | After around a quarter of a mile , look back to see the outline of a Romano-British settlement . |
| 14 | When Richard at last paused at a twist in the track he looked back to see the detective , red-faced and sweating , a hundred yards below him . |
| 15 | No I want to get back to see the sheep at nine o'clock . |
| 16 | At five fifty-three , as a blood-red sun peeped over the horizon , a Verey pistol was fired and Charlie looked back to see the sky lit up behind him . |
| 17 | I think it 's this month that Lee goes back to see the specialist at whatsername , Bradford . |
| 18 | By the time Bethan went back to see the dermatologist in February this year , her acne had cleared . |
| 19 | And Cardiff looked back to see the thing standing there amidst the destruction . |
| 20 | He sheeted both sails hard in and glanced back to see the Zodiac lift high on the edge of a breaking swell . |
| 21 | Mother stood back to see the effect of the gift . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll be back to see the bodies if they do . ’ |
| 23 | The Doctor turned back to see the ship glowing bright red . |
| 24 | Politeness alone made her go back to see the doctor , and listen to her almost stern advice . |
| 25 | And red-faced Brucie , brought back to steady the ship , blundered for the second goal , racing to the edge of his area to punch straight to Earle who sent a superbly-judged lob back over him from 25 yards . |
| 26 | He stood up suddenly , sending his chair skimming back to hit the wall behind him . |
| 27 | Luke got up quickly , sending his chair rolling back to hit the wall behind his desk with a crash that made Merrill jump . |
| 28 | Maybe it is radar , coming back to confirm the solidity of objects around us . |
| 29 | We were the ones who exported the slaves in the first place , and now the white man is being asked back to restore the castles . ’ |
| 30 | This is not all ; for if any unwanted change in the output occurs and this change can be fed back to modify the duty cycle ratio in the proper sense , the output can be stabilized at some desired value , any deviation from that value being automatically corrected . |