Example sentences of "[vb base] back [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 What I do n't like is that we went back did n't we , I do n't know if you saw my thing to David where we report back on a fax , report every month
2 The ambitious plans drawn up by Middlesbrough council will be passed to various departments which will work on them and report back in a year 's time .
3 Obviously what you say to another person and the way you say it will have an effect on what they say back as a response .
4 I wiped sweat off my forehead with my fingers and stood quietly , holding on , trying to let the oxygen level in my blood climb back to a functioning state .
5 They note that the molecular hydrogen emission reveals long tail-like structures which project back to a more or less common origin in the vicinity of well-known stellar residents of the Orion molecular cloud ( see cover photo ) .
6 The Sergeant galloped past a man and cut back with a savage slash of his sword .
7 French polish or varnish , cut back with a fine grade of wirewool and wax , will give a good finish , and a dark tinted wax worked well into the corners will add a bit of instant age .
8 Would n't it be a poor thing to have the man close his shop and walk back for a kind of half-hearted snack .
9 If you stir enough of them together and stand back for a few hundred million years , the result is likely to be a chemical entity capable of reproducing itself — one of the fundamental differences between living and nonliving material .
10 From a different political quarter , the Green movement is resurrecting environmental issues which again tie back into a possible new vogue for planning .
11 Many people look back on a moment of conversion — though it is not essential to be able to point to such a moment — with awe and wonder .
12 The Agency 's work strategy has , has been made available to members , and erm , I think if we look back to a previous Committee , where the er , information was provided , that we had been successful .
13 But on the other hand , the bibliography for the Tate catalogue required that I look back at a lot of old notices and I find that my perception was not at all valid .
14 Get back to a taste of nature
15 Set back into a thick hazelnut hedge across a stony roadway , facing these buildings , is a structure which , again , the sun never blesses : the garden 's fruit house .
16 Set back in a quiet spot off the beaten track , the Hotel Olivi is close to the Grottoes of Catullus which are a must for visitors to this region .
17 There was no time to raise it and draw back for a stabbing blow .
18 Hook a triple transfer tool in three needles at left of centre , pull the needles to E position then push back to A position — once the stitches are on the transfer tool , it is safe to lift them out of the needles .
19 Dip a cotton bud into cuticle-remover and go round each cuticle , then push back with a rubber-tipped hoofstick .
20 The possible effect from 1994–5 onwards of the lifting of the cap on QR income has encouraged the University to prepare plans which , if its assumptions about future funding levels are realised , will allow it to reinforce the physical infrastructure of the University as well as funding academic developments , while bringing the Income and Expenditure Account back into a cumulative surplus by 31 July 1996 .
21 Make sure you lean back through a curved spine and rock off the heel of your hands for added support .
22 As the wave hits the nose of the board , lean back in a crouched position , placing all you weight on your rear foot .
23 I lower myself into a contained eddy of water and lean back against a seat of rounded stone .
24 These children may continue on puréed foods for considerable periods of time or even start to reject all solids and revert back to a liquid diet .
25 In order to help people like Jeff Lockyer , the Oxfordshire money advice project has set up a Debtline which offers people advice on how to control their debts and pay back at a pace they can afford .
26 Once the condition clears up , switch back to a mild shampoo .
27 ‘ We came out here looking for a 100per cent record and I 'll be disappointed if we go back with a defeat , ’ said Llewellyn .
28 You 've got , again , a much more stable population , there are n't nearly so many teachers , young women teachers who leave the system to get married and then perhaps do n't go back at all , or only go back on a part-time basis .
29 Of course , the challenge is when people who are sensitised to their own attitudes go back into a work or social setting where people are not .
30 Moving from the present backwards in time implies that one can , with patience , go back into a patient 's past medical history correcting successive imbalances — rather like peeling an onion layer by layer — until the original , deeply submerged imbalance is uncovered and corrected .
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