Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has obviously set back our restoration work , ’ Mr Rutter said , ‘ but the worst aspect is the effect it will have on the morale of volunteers . |
| 2 | It has now reverted back to a quiet village , disturbed only at weekends by visitors from surrounding areas who come to fish , walk the frontage and watch the departure or arrival of passenger ferries and other shipping . |
| 3 | Now effectively shy of two of those founders , it has essentially retracted back to a die-hard core of some two dozen companies from a highly publicised swell of some 250 industry lights . |
| 4 | I ca n't make the machine go any bloody quicker , well I can , but I so what 's the point in that come and have a look at it and then they said come back and do it when you on the skin , you know the skin bring it forward well it do n't go back , it just gets all tangled . |
| 5 | Ortega 's defeat crushed a lot of left-wing supporters around the world , but it did not set back Gould , who immediately plunged himself into a new project . |
| 6 | It did not look back at Alice , but said , ‘ One side will make you taller , and the other side will make you shorter . ’ |
| 7 | It did n't come back with a refusal and allow us to discuss alternative ways of achieving our objective . |
| 8 | I it , and it jumped back up and , it did n't jump back up , it jumped , what it done is it ran down that bit of the wall and jumped . |
| 9 | And it makes you wonder as well if it did n't revolve back onto he children you know . |
| 10 | ‘ When the girl , Louise Taylor , and then Inspector Leeming were found , I do n't believe it did n't get back to the KGB . |
| 11 | It did n't hark back to a mythical , puritan past but went super-realistic instead . |
| 12 | How clearly it had all come back to her — even the piping treble of her own childish voice . |
| 13 | ‘ No stock-taking ’ policies are adopted partly because of staffing shortages , but also on the premise that stock-taking is a waste of time because it does not bring back the missing books , and any item which is really important will be requested on reservation ( though a central reservation system , if employed , may mean that missing titles go unnoticed ) . |
| 14 | If it does n't grow back , I 've accepted that it might not , but if it grows back I 'll be a very happy man . |
| 15 | I am trying to avoid going that far : it does keep the ear occupied , at least for its duration , even if it does n't drift back into your consciousness afterwards , and these are solid , lusty performances by the Camerata quartet , a young Polish group , in impressively immediate recordings . |
| 16 | I 've been doing , it does n't curl back . |
| 17 | So next time you hit the road make sure it does n't hit back . |
| 18 | I think you maintain an excellent record in that but it does still come back to getting people into the theatre . |