Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] back [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , take an accident like that hair in the gate , put it together with the coincidental gaze of a ghost , and it 's as if Fonda really has come back to life . |
| 2 | For this son of mine was dead and has come back to life ; he was lost and is found ( Luke 15:24 ) . |
| 3 | Politics has come back to life as well . |
| 4 | While undergoing an operation his heart has stopped , but he has come back to life after having been declared dead and deposited in a coffin . |
| 5 | Donovan , the folk guru who was a git in the Sixties with grooves such as ‘ Goo Goo Barabajagal ’ and ‘ Mellow Yellow ’ , has come back into vogue . |
| 6 | It says , that not only does it save it 's money when it comes to when we 're putting in the tender bids , but actually the profits it makes goes back into the County Council , it has a two- prong saving of averages to this council , and we 've known and seen in the years that it 's been running that money has come back into county council balances , which means that we can have more money to spend on other services . |
| 7 | BBC2 's recent Rembrandt season confirms that the figure of the artist has come back into fashion . |
| 8 | Clare Wildish has come back for help feeding her second baby , 3 day old Emma . |
| 9 | Nobody else has come back from town . ’ |
| 10 | It is premature , then , to say that the western has galloped back to centre screen . |
| 11 | He may be right that the centre of gravity among that supposedly central group of Britons , the skilled workers , or C2s , has shifted back in favour of higher state spending . |
| 12 | Within the party , the vote has brought back to life a dormant distaste for Mr Salmond and his strategy . |
| 13 | Scottish Homes has brought back into use 1,000 units that it has helped to create in the past two years . |
| 14 | The story has slipped back to page two , though , I notice . |
| 15 | To crown it all , I now read in my newspaper that we are living in ‘ the post-feminist era ’ which I take to mean either that the battle is won — a view informed by the same kind of stupidity which once encouraged Macmillan to proclaim ‘ we 're all middle-class now ’ — or that feminism is a spent force and has slipped back into obscurity for another sixty years of oblivion . |
| 16 | DESPERATELY-ILL schoolgirl Wendy Walker has battled back to life to repay her loving parents ' amazing devotion . |
| 17 | Cleveland County fire officer Bill Cooney has hit back at criticism of the service . |
| 18 | SALLY Faber , wife of Westbury Tory MP David Faber , has gone back to school to prepare for her new job as a weather girl with the London News Network , the new London television service . |
| 19 | In the meantime , Adam has gone back to school to study for his A levels . |
| 20 | A ten year old girl who had a heart and lung transplant just four months ago has gone back to school . |
| 21 | Since April , the United Mine Workers of America have been on strike here against the Pittston Company : 1,700 miners have been out for seven months and , despite intimidation , no one has gone back to work . |
| 22 | She says one boy has gone back to bed wetting because he 's so worried . |
| 23 | Right so , you know , there are those who would teach that Jesus he would die for our sins and he 's forgiven us sins , but only those who come to him , Jesus died for the sin of the whole world , for every man , woman , boy and girl that has ever lived or ever will live , he died for the sin of the whole world , not just for those even who lived after his death , that 's why it talks about in the Old Testament people like Abraham looking for that day , and so Jesus who in , when he died , because he 's eternal , so we 've got the problems with time , God has n't got problems with time , he 's eternal and so his sacrifice , the sacrifice of him on the cross was effective for Abraham as it is for you , it was as effective for David as it was for Paul otherwise Abraham would never of had his sins forgiven because what happened with all the sacrifice with all the little lambs that were killed and all the goats and all the rest they only acted as a covering for sin , did n't take them away , it covered them , what for , until the moment when Jesus would come and would take those sins away and so when you think of David 's sin , his adultery and his murder , how does he get forgiven for that because Jesus died from the cross and he takes upon himself David 's sin and he takes upon him Abraham 's sin and Noah 's sin and Adam 's sin , just as much as your sin and the person who will be born in ten years time their sin also , all our sins er as Gloria just read there from , from one John to two they were all of him he has died for every one , well that 's his humiliation , hurry along quickly now his exhortation , the period from Jesus 's resurrection onward is referred to as to the , as the state of exhortation , now what does that term mean , well as Jesus according to his divine nature has always been , he was always every where , now in his human nature , before , be , sorry it 's not , it 's not on that one , but before he , he came to earth , he was every where , he was God , he was , he was omnia present that means he was every where at the same time , but he takes upon himself he 's su , he 's , he 's human nature and he takes upon himself the limitations and when Jesus is walking down second avenue in , in Jerusalem he 's not in Nazareth that 's why there were times when people came to er , to , to , came rushing out because they heard that Jesus was passing by , see he was n't there resident with them , he passed by , now he 's gone back to heaven and where is he , he 's in heaven , he , er whereabouts , where do you think Jesus is now , that resurrected body that was glorified that has gone back to heaven , where do you think it is |
| 24 | Recently the trend has swung back in favour of large carcasses and the Longhorn , able to make meat from grass and hardy enough to live out without pampering , is ready for the challenge . |
| 25 | But one can still go to Shardlow , which has sunk back into obscurity , and see the tall warehouses , the wharves , and the later Georgian Shardlow Hall where the prosperous James Sutton lived , and all the other evidences of a place that was virtually created by the canal age . |
| 26 | ‘ It has helped to take me away from tennis when I have time to relax , ’ said Stich who has climbed back to world no 9 . |
| 27 | I have long dark hair which I have to wear tied back for college . |
| 28 | ‘ Individually a few have done , ’ said his new colleague Sarah , ‘ but they get squeezed back into line by the West . ’ |
| 29 | Men get sent back from specialist posts to uniform duties as a punishment and the strength of this metaphorical move downwards or backwards ( you can never move ‘ up ’ or ‘ forwards ’ into uniform ) is not lost on young officers . |
| 30 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |