Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] back [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to go back to a size 12 again . |
| 3 | I want to go back to a comment made by the hon. Member for Truro ( Mr. Taylor ) , which led the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) to go into a spate of incontinent muttering . |
| 4 | After countless ages I seemed to come back to a real realisation that I was continuing to breathe , even if with difficulty , and did n't seem in immediate danger of stopping . |
| 5 | I felt I had stepped back into a thirties ' film and that in the morning , when we went down into the bar for café au lait , Arletty and Jean Gabin would be leaning on the zinc counter . |
| 6 | I had to come back to a degree agreeing with them . |
| 7 | I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen . |
| 8 | I 'm I 'm actually I have to go back to a house . |
| 9 | I could understand them wanting to escape back to a time when they were ‘ needed ’ . |
| 10 | Bewildered , she felt as if she 'd stepped back into a dark cave and was falling into the unknown . |
| 11 | Unless — do you have to go back to a hospital with it , or anything ? ’ |
| 12 | Of course that is n't really allowed , but once you 've got back as a ghost , there 's not much anybody can do to stop you . |
| 13 | She had drawn back from a direct confrontation again , Guy realised . |
| 14 | He is said to have one of the fastest services in Britain and his game proved too powerful for Tony Marti who had hurried back from a league match to play him . |
| 15 | She leant forward , saying she wanted to go back for a moment to what the TV presenter had said about Jim Lancaster . |
| 16 | You have come back in a funny mood . |
| 17 | Despite all the things that happen to us , such as religious conversion , dreams , accidents , bereavement , psychological shock — all those things that pull us out of everyday reality — we tend to slip back to a belief that there is a bedrock of common sense and sensibility at the heart of things . |
| 18 | time we 've come back with a need-to-be-paid is n't it ? |
| 19 | ‘ We have to get back to a position where investors want to invest in unquoted companies and believe they 're still getting a good return , but I do n't think that will be the 30% they might have been promised . ’ |
| 20 | We have slipped back to a state of affairs which would be intolerable even in Naples . ’ |
| 21 | You 're obviously more cautious than you were before , and erm a lot of kids now they tend to stand back for a while just in case 'cause you can never judge how fast they 're really going to go through there . |
| 22 | Dyson half expected him to come jerking back for a reprise of the First Collect . |
| 23 | They seemed to stretch back for a very long way and Nuadu , narrowing his eyes , trying to find his bearings , thought that they must go back and back into the hillside behind the road and deep within the earth . |
| 24 | While a few people do not like tape recorders , others love to have what they said played back at a family party , and then argue and correct each other and make interesting extra comments . |
| 25 | Slowly but inevitably they had drifted back into a loving relationship , culminating three months ago in their engagement . |
| 26 | They had come back as a fleet , their sails bellying out under the south-westerly gale , the men shouting to each other across the water to compare catches , and their womenfolk waiting on the beach to help with the unloading and to make a start on the gutting and salting and packing . |
| 27 | The counsellor made it clear that if they wanted to come back at a later stage , they would be welcome . |
| 28 | He has come back with a bang , and the film of Jurassic Park opens in July , which will obviously help his sales . |
| 29 | For three whole days she 'd blanked out the memory of that kiss they 'd shared , but now it came flooding back with a vengeance , hot and strong and so seductively real that she could have wept for shame . |
| 30 | Would he like to come back on a quieter ‘ induction day ’ ? |