Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] back on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My weight settled back on the earth and I felt nothing but staggering agony and could n't think connectedly until it abated . |
| 2 | It was better than having your screenplay flopping back on the mat by return of post . |
| 3 | We walked round for a bit then we came back and watched The Bug-Eyed Monster Strikes Back on the television . |
| 4 | The tap is then closed and the stopper placed back on the tube to prevent release or contamination of the air . |
| 5 | We then suggested that people create small groups in which individual responses could be gathered together and discussed before the chosen spokesperson reported back on the collective view . |
| 6 | The political consequences are first increasing loss of control and crumbling of the party apparatus , next the state 's need to fall back on the army and police to preserve its own existence , public order and , it claims , the chance of imposing painful economic reforms . |
| 7 | Jezrael let her aching body melt back on the mattress . |
| 8 | He washed up and tidied up , and put the baize cover back on the table . |
| 9 | I asked one member of a church planting team to look back on the experience . |
| 10 | I would buy the parchment and arrange its transport down to the wharves and we concluded that , if we sold the wine brought back on the first voyage , we would make a profit . |
| 11 | Resisting the idea that results should somehow be ‘ doctored ’ to reflect such circumstances , the Group fell back on the suggestion that LEAs or governors might be expected to issue statements that would put the results of particular schools in the right context . |
| 12 | Often , when I was cycling through the camp after coming off duty , I would spy Thursby in the distance beavering along , head down against the gale , full of eagerness to get back on the job and spot any mistakes we had made during his absence . |
| 13 | She let her head fall back on the pillow , her body arching in swift sensuousness , inviting and inciting the continuation of his caresses . |
| 14 | The video looks back on the occupation of Latin America by Europeans and draws attention to the present situation of the millions of people throughout the continent who are suffering poverty and disease . |
| 15 | He felt mercifully isolated and stopped for a while to lean back on the lower bank of fell . |
| 16 | ‘ We would have preferred an earlier chance to get back on the rails , ’ admitted Thompson , whose side 's defeat ended a run of six consecutive wins . |
| 17 | Her head relaxed back on the pillow . |
| 18 | It was rather pathetic , like an ageing colonel looking back on the days of Empire . |
| 19 | A former sales manager looking back on the time he had to juggle with the moral and immoral balls of corporate demands said that : |
| 20 | The large part of the responsibility falls back on the parents — or , in some cases , on grandparents . |
| 21 | The trio use the bank at the side of the steps , the wheelchair tips , its passenger leaning forward , voices break the silence suddenly , laughter as the man pulls back on the handles , displaying his strength to the hunchback . |
| 22 | The final sweaty pull up the eroded rocky path to the summit plateau of Ingleborough was warm work and it was a relief to lie back on the dry grass , rucksack for a pillow . |
| 23 | In 1987 the UK Government went back on a pre-election promise to introduce Landscape Conservation Orders to protect these areas , so proper control from the EEC would be most welcome . |
| 24 | When the Birmingham architect Joseph Crouch looked back on the nineteenth century , he reflected that ‘ the spirit of Evangelical religion in England has changed in a singular manner during the past fifty or sixty years . |
| 25 | One day , after we had been working together all afternoon without much success , Dana without warning lay back on the bed , his head on the pillow . |
| 26 | The other side lever remains back on the . |
| 27 | Gerry 's champing at the bit to get back on the box |
| 28 | Environmental agency goes back on the shelf |
| 29 | Peter O'Toole 's happiest hour as the Soho scribe looking back on a mis-spent life . |
| 30 | As the camera pulled back on the last shot and credits were shown on the screen , the tension in the studio relaxed , replaced by an exultant mood . |