Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] 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 | Each year straw equivalent to 3.6 million tonnes of coal is wasted , usually burnt in the field or ploughed back into the ground . |
| 3 | Every culture , however imperfectly and blindly , either turned towards the light or fell back into the darkness . |
| 4 | He would linger on those delivery trips and stay for dinner or tea or come back via the Talbot , the pub across the road , although he was under age . |
| 5 | He comes pounding down the ladder , and grabs the wheel and stampedes back into the waves . |
| 6 | Turn left into Bleak Terrace and go back onto the Fell through the wicket gate to the village boundary wall . |
| 7 | The recurrent nerve leaves the hypocerebral ganglion as a median or paired lateral oesophageal nerve and passes back to the hinder region of the fore gut , where it ( or each branch ) terminates in a ventricular ganglion . |
| 8 | They returned to the warehouse and stood back as a boy carrying a sheet of glass under his arm came down the stairs . |
| 9 | So the bit was taken out of his mouth and put back in the proper place , and Wendy continued to calmly trot him around with the other horses ; and Huckleberry kept putting his tongue over the bit again , and again , and again . |
| 10 | I finish my tea and climb back into the Toyota . |
| 11 | Thirty seconds later , he had the whole U-rod assembly unbolted from the car and stepped back out the way he 'd come in . |
| 12 | Instead , not wanting to risk a scene without more evidence of his suspicions , he went back to his car and drove back to the Club , stopping briefly at a couple of pubs on the way to see if Gwen was in either . |
| 13 | For a fleeting moment , she wondered if the woman might have given her deliberately wrong directions but , shrugging the thought away , she started the car and turned back in the direction from which she had just come . |
| 14 | I take the tube and have my first puff and lean back upon the settee , my eyes closed , my legs spread slightly . |
| 15 | If there are no more loans to be entered , the user presses the RETURN key and goes back to the options list . |
| 16 | Okay press the er escape key and go back to the regression results , erm so return to the post regression menu and then display regression results , regressult results again . |
| 17 | I then collect the grassbox and jog back to the front of the house where Pa is waiting . |
| 18 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 19 | They left the goose in the dairy and went back along the passage and through a swing door with baize on one side into a wide , dark hall where a grandfather clock ticked in one corner and a small oil lamp threw shadows . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | Lee loosened his grip and sat back on the floor . |
| 23 | He was unable to find work and went back to the North to be near his little boy . |
| 24 | ‘ One spring I left my noviciate and came back to the farm . |
| 25 | With a burgeoning caseload , too few judges , and increasing delays the courts may be tempted to block the further development of the law and to cut back on the advances already made . |
| 26 | Iris , seated at the dressing-table , paused in the act of brushing her short , mouse-brown hair , glanced briefly through the window and turned back to the mirror without comment . |
| 27 | I shut the window and move back into the room . |
| 28 | She said nothing , but instead left the two young people by the window and moved back to the duty manager 's desk . |
| 29 | She put him in the cubicle and went back to the nursing station to phone the physiotherapy department . |
| 30 | The road would be turning east soon , and taking them back to the main road so that they could turn south and walk back to the house . |