Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pron] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had reached the Morvan and had then turned round , but did not make it back to base , then a crash on land or sea is self-evident : if on land , only the agency — the weather , engine trouble , or enemy action — is in doubt . |
| 2 | I also wonder what will happen if I have a second child — Mark might not make it back from work in time to be with me . ’ |
| 3 | They had not expected him back before one o'clock . |
| 4 | The end of Genesis did not bring us back to the beginning , but it surely left us heading in the right direction . |
| 5 | ‘ I would bring something back for someone else but I would not bring it back for myself . |
| 6 | I should not expect them back before late in the afternoon . |
| 7 | Do not send me back to Hanoi empty handed . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Why ? ’ she retorts , ‘ can we not give something back by doing our own work ? ’ |
| 9 | The Government is taking the money , and it is not paying it back to the people of Wiltshire . |
| 10 | Lesley-Jane could not keep her back to the door indefinitely and turned . |
| 11 | His eyes narrowed ; then , stepping towards her and leaning his hands on the edge of the table , he said , ‘ You 're not holding anything back from me , are you ? |
| 12 | The surgeon instructed a patient not to bend her back after an operation . |
| 13 | Oh it 's it it 's on a it 's on erm it 's on a plate so you er I do n't mind I 'm , you know I do n't mind not getting it back for the next month . |
| 14 | She tried , bitterly , to resist this fatal colouring ; she tried to reduce the trip to words upon a notice board ; but the mind had gone its own way , and she could not force it back into its grey and natal landscape . |
| 15 | She could not take him back to America with her , he could not take her home . |
| 16 | John Herschel in his Preliminary Discourse ( 1830 ) for the Cabinet Cyclopedia urged that while astronomers can deal with the orbits of the planets in the solar system , their inductions can not take them back to its creation . |
| 17 | Seeing the mist that deepened the dark grey of her eyes , the pale translucent cheeks , both so beautiful now in their glowing copper setting , it was all Benedict could do not to snatch her back into the heat of his embrace , and force his way to that intimate deep caress , the thought of which now fired him with passionate yearning . |
| 18 | ‘ Why not put it back in the bag and say nothing ? |
| 19 | Years later , 1948 tourist Doug Ring , speaking at a dinner , thanked George Tribe for not making it back for that crucial pre-tour season . |
| 20 | Her royal plane , she explained , could not get her back to Sandringham that early December night because of bad weather . |
| 21 | I can conduct in front of the mirror , but if I was conducting an orchestra and something went wrong I could not put it back on the rails again . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I was out with Annsley one evening and I was giving him some stick about not putting something back into the game , ’ said Armstrong . |
| 23 | I 'm definitely not putting it back on today , but I will put it back on . |
| 24 | She had the few pounds from her wages ( and thank heaven she had not thrown it back in the vicar 's face ) . |
| 25 | Only then would he decide whether or not to take him back to our glorious green Earth . |
| 26 | The Panel decided in advance not to bring them back to Orkney for the Hearing . |
| 27 | Which member of the SDP 's ‘ Gang of Four ’ did n't make it back to the House of Commons at any time in 1983 ? |
| 28 | But on the trial flight ( June 24 , 1979 ) , the aeroplane ran out of fuel and Mike did n't make it back to the runway . |
| 29 | Sometimes one of them did n't make it back to base , or camp , or whatever they called it , and then one of his chums would pop along to tell the girlfriend . |
| 30 | The reason being that way back in 1990 the Leinster Division won the cup and its return to England was somewhat delayed , in fact , it did n't make it back in time for the 1991 competition when Western were the victors . |