Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] back [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I , I , I know that I missed out on the , the private education one because I should 've come back on that . |
| 2 | Given the losses and a circulation that has fallen back to 540,000 , in third place in the race behind the Sunday Times and The Sunday Telegraph , a premium price could not be expected . |
| 3 | Hamill , who has dropped back to 34th place in the Challenge Tour order of merit following his recent two-week break , had a three-under par 68 in the third round to leave him with a tournament aggregate of 210 , seven shots behind leader Frederick Larsson of Sweden . |
| 4 | He carries only nine pounds more than in 1992 and despite being plagued by a wind problem since that success , has come back in great style after being ‘ tubed . ’ |
| 5 | Sometimes , when writing we repeat a word unknowingly and when we read it again we recognise that our pen has slipped back over old ground : we have not found the right word . |
| 6 | A YOUNG soccer star has battled back from serious injury to the brink of major success . |
| 7 | SINEAD O'CONNOR 's record label Chrysalis has hit back at tabloid criticism of the sleeve of her current single ‘ Success Has Made A Failure Of Our Home ’ . |
| 8 | So i i i in a sense this has gone back to one of Mao 's early views , except that , that there is a difference now in that er the land is being redistributed for ownership whereas for Mao earlier it was , it was for your use . |
| 9 | But instead of a square heel , or even a radically smoothed-off heel similar to the Revell acoustic we recently reviewed , Andy Manson has gone back to first principles and has ended up virtually doing away with the heel altogether . |
| 10 | Puccini : A celebration Andrew Parrott with his Taverner Consort , Choir and Players has gone back to medieval sources , and devised a sequence not just of carols in more robust settings than is common but of instrumental pieces like the March of the Kings . |
| 11 | In some cases Dutton has gone back to these originals , and sometimes he has worked on the Griffith tapes . |
| 12 | last I got moved back in last night . |
| 13 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 14 | In the second half Oxford eased off just for a bit , but when Luton opened fire United hit back with all guns blazing . |
| 15 | It was a thrilling encounter with Colm going two up quite early in the round and getting pegged back to all square . |
| 16 | Nevertheless Stavrogin does contemplate suicide , and the notebook entry ‘ to be or not to be ’ bears the date 16 August , so it belongs to the summer when the ‘ tendentious ’ political story gets tugged back into great-sinner orbit , growing physically and imaginatively larger and more formidable all the time . |
| 17 | There is a kind of feedback into the black community : stories about going for a job , getting turned down and explaining the failure as caused by being black get fed back to other blacks and so nourish conceptions about the structure of society . |
| 18 | This is , I 've got my from school , it says , I was shopping in town looking at some clothes when , suddenly I got pulled back from one of the , the changing room . |
| 19 | Sir Geoffrey Littler , a former senior Treasury official and a director of NatWest Investment Bank , together witha group of eight City worthies , will have reported back to another committee established by the Exchange giving an interim assessment of the issues involved . |
| 20 | He could have come back on that one , if he 'd really tried , but sometimes it was much easier to lie on the floor and watch the lights on the ceiling and listen to the count going on . |
| 21 | Possibly , they might not have come back from that either . |
| 22 | Mitterrand , a staunch defender of French culture , may be a reluctant participant at the event , although his original objections must have melted back in 1987 when the American company said that with this , the fourth of its parks ( there are two in the United States and one outside Tokyo ) , it would create 12,000 jobs … |
| 23 | We may have slipped back in some fields , but in others ( such as molecular biology or pharmaceutical research ) we remain world leaders . |
| 24 | Southampton should have hit back after 28 minutes when Carl Tiler pulled down Nicky Banger . |
| 25 | This is an interesting passage because Platt B. is effectively saying that an undertaking to pay this excessive charge had been extracted from the clerk before he commenced his search and that he could not honestly have gone back on that undertaking . |
| 26 | So the old ones they 'd have taken back to that yard place would n't they ? |
| 27 | World No 8 Wilkinsonfrom Kirkby-in-Ashfield , went down 9-7 to stablemate Martin Clark , having fought back from 8-4 . |
| 28 | Now Rangers face the backlash in a top-five clash at Old Trafford today , with evergreen skipper Wilkins , 36 , saying : ‘ I thought they 'd have bounced back after that defeat . |
| 29 | Pallister recovered from early setbacks when he could so easily have drifted back into Northern League football . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ On top of all his talent , to have come back from such a serious injury and regain his best form is supremely brave . |