Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [v-ing] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead he learned that life is not a choice between murdering your way to the throne or slopping back in a sty ; that there are swinish kings and regal hogs ; that the king may envy the pig ; and that the possibilities of the not-life will always change tormentingly to fit the particular embarrassments of the lived life . |
| 2 | At your command , our unique GPS Man Overboard feature immediately goes into a special plot mode which continuously gives range and bearing back to the location at which it was activated . |
| 3 | On 22 January 1946 he agreed to the formation of the Central Intelligence Group ( CIG ) , which was to be a small organisation simply collating all forms of foreign intelligence and reporting back to the president through the National Intelligence Authority ( NIA ) . |
| 4 | I normally make a note of the palette number and list the yarn names , along with the manufacturers ' colour names or numbers for each of the eight colours , in a book and find this is a great help when going back to a palette later , or when looking for a palette containing certain yarn colours . |
| 5 | and we 're , we 're going on the Friday afternoon and coming back on the Monday afternoon . |
| 6 | Outside I could hear rain falling upon the fire-escape and bouncing back against the window . |
| 7 | For a moment I thought of getting on my joke transport and heading back to the East Oxford slums where I belonged . |
| 8 | Next moment , both men were out of the cab and sprinting back towards the blazing house . |
| 9 | She was out every evening , sometimes staying away all night and coming back in the afternoon only to tart herself up for the next evening away . |
| 10 | They wander the land seeking news and reporting back to the tower . |
| 11 | Its boundary — the boundary of the Pacific plate — would follow the west coast of North America , but it would then turn sharply south and pass to the seaward , as it were , of both the Galapagos archipelago and Easter Island , before curving to the south of New Zealand , along the spine of South Island and emerging back into the sea near the hot mud springs of Rotorua . |
| 12 | ‘ Not , ’ said Lydia under her breath and falling back on the cliché , ‘ if I see you first . ’ |
| 13 | In those few days between seeing my surgeon and going back to the X-ray department I went up to that chapel two or three times a day , I did my visualizations with all the intensity that I could summons . |
| 14 | He crossed the road , pausing on the kerb and looking back towards the Lancia . |
| 15 | The explanation that is usually given as to why we do n't see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table is that it is forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics . |
| 16 | Would they see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table ? |
| 17 | And with that he started off , crossing the road and going back down the hill . |
| 18 | Sometimes the actors went back up to their dressing-rooms for an hour at a stretch while she and Geoffrey stood in for them , posing languidly at the fireplace or leaning back on the settee , twirling empty wine glasses . |
| 19 | Devolution , either from county or district , would mean more local information and reporting back to the relevant authorities by the parish clerk and her assistant . |
| 20 | Head to the viewing platform and then turn right through the wood and go back to the field turning right down the hard path and going back to the Castle Bolton signpost . |
| 21 | One of these was ‘ war communism ’ , a centralised model based upon commands and coercion and harking back to the militarised society of the civil war years . |
| 22 | The villagers , tired now , were bringing their festivities to an end and streaming back across the green to the tavern or to their homes in search of other pleasures . |
| 23 | I will be staying for the weekend and going back on the train on Sunday night . |
| 24 | Cover the pan with a cloth — to prevent steam from condensing on the cover of the pan and falling back on the curd — and the lid , and leave it for two to four hours , until the curd is fairly firm . |