Example sentences of "of [v-ing] back [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But there are more flexible ways of easing back into the job market .
2 She could n't resist the challenge of swimming back over the tide when the boys suggested it .
3 I did n't consider the possibility of turning back to the runway behind me , but at the time I thought that a very low-level circuit to the left would bring me round for a landing on an adjacent runway .
4 But they remained Germans , always dreaming of going back to the Fatherland one day . ’
5 One important thing about a ‘ bottlenecked ’ life cycle is that it makes possible the equivalent of going back to the drawing board .
6 He could n't stand the idea of going back to the section-house , so he had taken a series of private lodgings .
7 Well , certainly people are satisfied with where we 've got to and want to draw a line underneath it and move on from there , and I think the prospect of going back to the constitution er issues , and they m once again being a key focus , I do n't think anyone in the Party , or outside the Party , sees the Labour Party wanting to devote itself to that at this time .
8 They were perfectly capable of going back to the perch without my help .
9 Especially if you do n't realize that till you 've got , till you 've got home and you realize you 've got to go through all the hassle of going back to the shop to complain .
10 at the Gateshead National Garden Festival from 1989 to 1990 that was alright , then last September 1990 and with the end of the festival in site I had a dread of going back on the dole as I already spent seven years on the dole previously through no-fault of my own .
11 Once we agreed on the idea of pulling back on the emotion and letting the situation she was in speak for itself , the part took off .
12 Cook has every intention of getting back into the South African team next season although he will not find it easy following the success of Andrew Hudson at the World Cup .
13 Afterwards you stand no hope of getting back into the City .
14 Perhaps they feel it is a way of getting back at the system that keeps them in the poverty gap .
15 There was the usual faff of getting back to the aircraft to get the flying bag , complicated by the imminent arrival of VIPs for the World Fishing Convention .
16 For a moment I toyed with the idea of getting back to the ship , lifting off and going a comfortingly long way away .
17 Swail 's hopes of getting back in the match virtually disappeared when he lost the first frame of the final session .
18 The method of reporting back to the client should be specified in the terms of engagement letter .
19 It 's always held a special meaning for me , and when the development is completed I have every intention of moving back into the area and making my home here .
20 Possibly , just possibly , the cars get sold as well as wage and staff cuts , but cutting directors ' perks instead of cutting back on the shop floor level ?
21 He said his wife was encouraging him , but that he realized the difficulties of coming back to the Commons and of the years after the election if we were in office or even more if we were in opposition .
22 ‘ I did n't even know the water was there , ’ said Couples , whose Augusta victory came after his tee shot to the short 12th on the final afternoon defied gravity by clinging to a near-vertical bank instead of dropping back into the lake .
23 ‘ And if you keep both feet in you 've more chance of dropping back into the chair on your knees when it tries to flip , ready for it to whip back the other way , ’ says Birchall .
24 That type of putting back into a business context , is something which er we need to help the business come to terms with while they are growing in this new scheme of procuring work in a more formal and structured way .
25 Better still , instead of retreating back to the crossroads , they were going to the cover of the dark wood which ran like a bastion down the left flank of the French route to Quatre Bras .
26 Mothers who had left jobs in the middle of the socio-economic spectrum were most exposed to the risk of falling back on the ladder , particularly if they left a long gap in their employment record .
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