Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] back [prep] " 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 | Fulfil consumables requests or report back to users CSO |
| 3 | Each year straw equivalent to 3.6 million tonnes of coal is wasted , usually burnt in the field or ploughed back into the ground . |
| 4 | Every culture , however imperfectly and blindly , either turned towards the light or fell back into the darkness . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But what you 're doing here I think it is er , er an example of the partnership , a partnership that goes back for many years , certainly during World War Two and I think er it is still strong and er holds firm today the partnership between the United States and Great Britain . |
| 7 | She was saddened and alarmed by the white face and big dark eyes that stared back at her from a thinner face than she remembered . |
| 8 | He spoke lightly , amusement in his eyes , but there was no response in the two pairs of eyes that stared back at him stonily . |
| 9 | But the dark eyes that looked back at her were firm and steady . |
| 10 | She had switched the apartment air-conditioning off , distrusting its effect on the health , and for a while she tried to convince herself that it was the unaccustomed humidity that made her so restless , but she did n't really believe it , and the eyes that looked back at her from her bathroom mirror in the morning were shadowy , and hunted . |
| 11 | But even where there may seem to have been little affection shown and where few apparent links remain , emotional ties that go back to earliest days are strong , and feelings about the death of a parent are bound to go deep . |
| 12 | In one of them he found a collection of cheque stubs and account books that went back to the 1940s . |
| 13 | They and the opposition are up against a tradition of oppression that goes back to Tamerlane . |
| 14 | Only 15 months later , the participants in that match , which , it must be said , was not full of passion , are now presumably heavily engaged in destroying each other simply because they come from two sides of a divide that dates back to the tragedies , miseries and horrors of the second world war , back to the first world war and into the deep recesses of history before that time . |
| 15 | And at the same time , and slightly in contradiction to that , I found it increasing erm , er , perception and indication of dissatisfaction with the way in which the joint er , collaborative structures were actually working , if I may say , especially at the top level in terms of the political erm erm , so I say to you colleagues , that you are required as er , by statute to , to have in place collaborative structures , er , under a statute that goes back to the nineteen seventies , and I should also say to you that up and down the country that authorities like your own are at this stage doing what you 're doing , and that is reviewing the effectiveness of the operation of those structures , and probably coming to much the same conclusions . |
| 16 | He comes pounding down the ladder , and grabs the wheel and stampedes back into the waves . |
| 17 | I will report to His Majesty and come back to him . " |
| 18 | The cat howled , dropped to the ground , and shot between Suragai 's legs and disappeared back inside Kiku 's yurt . |
| 19 | The reporter uncrossed his legs and sat back in his chair . |
| 20 | They took one last look at the newly laid keel and walked back along East Street together , Harry and Ann arm in arm , but Sam and Martha holding hands , because they were still like lovebirds together and did n't mind the world knowing it . |
| 21 | We 're getting , if we could be this time next week , given feedback and come back with some response and maybe John , you can take whatever comes out of that on board in your . |
| 22 | Jordan went into his bedroom and came back with his gun . |
| 23 | She went into her bedroom and came back with it . |
| 24 | Hughie 's hopes were raised last year when it was suggested that a replica of one of Captain Cook 's ships , either Endeavour or Resolution , should be built in Indonesia and brought back to Whitby as a permanent reminder of the feats of the town 's most famous son of the sea . |
| 25 | Selkirk released his grip on Corbett and fell back in his chair . |
| 26 | Turn left into Bleak Terrace and go back onto the Fell through the wicket gate to the village boundary wall . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | One researcher has suggested that they may be able to detect the very low frequency vibrations that are created in the water by waves and reflected back from the ocean floor , an echo-location system similar in principle to that used , at the other extreme end of the frequency scale , by bats . |
| 29 | The next thing you knew , there 'd be , oh , I do n't know , a fifteen-year-old Pole sliding off the table and rubbing his eyes and sauntering back to work , accompanied by an orderly and his understanding smile . |
| 30 | Now dry your eyes and get back to work . ’ |