Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [adv] [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Registered Visiting Students enriched our experience by their contributions to College life and we were delighted to welcome back Emma Sky who went out to fly back with Mona Wahbe , from Gaza , who is sponsored by the Oxford Student Scholarship Fund and is famous for her sparkle and animated use of English . |
| 2 | Bullies are often confused by people who do n't fight back but who continue to do what is right . |
| 3 | He even smiled at Busacher and Willi who did not smile back . |
| 4 | The one person amongst them who did n't move back was the young man with the whiskers and the private placard of his own . |
| 5 | There was one kid , however , who did n't move back as far as the rest of his row , so I politely asked him to get in line . |
| 6 | He explained that he had never met anyone before who did n't fight back . |
| 7 | It is a complacent researcher indeed who does not look back on the research findings and wish that some things had been done better . |
| 8 | Others present included Lord David Cecil , who had lately come back to Oxford to teach English Literature at New College , and Adam Fox , the college chaplain . |
| 9 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 10 | When she had finished she turned to Nara , who had just come back with the things she needed and was peering round the door , as if he was too scared of her magic to come right in . |
| 11 | At last week-end 's ICA conference , the film generated a single comment , from a producer on Channel 4 's Out series , Claire Beavan , who had just come back from America where she was making a programme about Hollywood homophobia . |
| 12 | Hindenburg , who had taken part in the victorious campaigns of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 , was now built up into a father figure : the old general who had again thrown back the invaders of the Fatherland . |
| 13 | ‘ Not yet , ’ said Scarlet , who had already slugged back a double . |
| 14 | With no casualties to deal with , but with new staff and better equipment our doctors settled down to work with a will for the children from ‘ Peabody buildings ’ at the back of the hospital who had either come back from evacuation , or who would not go anyway . |
| 15 | He took up his claret , drank , and moved to an anecdote which he had found scarcely ever failed and would surely , he was convinced , see him through this supper party as the man of wide travel , wide curiosity , the aristocratic rover who had finally come back home to live by the more profound , more refined things of life . |
| 16 | They joined those who had deliberately held back … the wise ones knew that the train turned round at Lynn . |
| 17 | We met a number of young field-workers and others who had recently come back to work in Lewis and Harris , and were most impressed by their ability and devotion . |
| 18 | Those who had perhaps drawn back after much involvement came out of retirement to lead the church more effectively than ever before . |
| 19 | Most of them are ex-soldiers , many from the Afghan campaign , who have not settled back into civilian life . |
| 20 | John 's there with his mate Paul , who 's just got back from work . |
| 21 | An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand . |