Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They gamely fought back to 27-20 with a Rob Myler try 10 minutes from time . |
| 2 | Even Jimmy 's early morning blues were not proof against that , and they eventually arrived back at base in a much better humour than when they took off . |
| 3 | They only gazed back at us with eerie little smiles . |
| 4 | United Airlines and American Airlines I 've been told are n't really all that good to fly with , mate of ours went up to the airport to pick his parents up , they just got back from a holiday in and er they flew and a , on a seven hour journey , where ever it was they come from , they did n't have any food , no food , nothing , what they done is they , they , they 'd taken a container off , but they had n't put a new one on . |
| 5 | How , this is how they just came back to me so |
| 6 | And that 's what upset us most about these people going back to work , the fact that a meeting had been taken a few months before in which everybody had voted for us to get the sack , and then all of a sudden they had been threatened and no vote was taken on whether we should stay out or go back , and they just dribbled back to , that really knocked us I think . |
| 7 | Clouthier 's policies were frequently ill-defined but they nevertheless brought back into the political debate conservative ideas that had been scorned since the 1917 Mexican revolution . |
| 8 | They seldom could avoid looking over their shoulders at her and when forced to explain this , they normally fell back on one of three arguments . |
| 9 | And they would always be a perfect reminder , she told herself as they finally struggled back on board , loaded with parcels , none of which she had actually intended to buy . |
| 10 | All our maypole queens , crown bearers and dancers look back on the ceremony with pride , and they still come back on the day . ’ |
| 11 | But they always rushed back to London for the first night of every West End show . |
| 12 | They always look back to the old smokestack industries . |
| 13 | Not Bernard , oh no , did they ever come back to you ? |
| 14 | These act as formal devices linking together the separate elements of the work , forming organic curves against the geometrical masses , but they also refer back to the serpent in one of the most famous classical sculpture groups , The Laocoon . |
| 15 | A dramatic profits rise by home shopping group Betterware sent their shares soaring initially before they later came back to be 5p ahead at 265p . |
| 16 | Now if we 'd have the voice of the Funny Man guessed we would have had some postal contestant winners , but they now go back in the box with those yet to come in the next week . |
| 17 | To their surprise , the Spanish have found that they now get back from Brussels scarcely more than they put in . |
| 18 | In practice , however , they often fall back on a similar analysis ( Sarup , 1986 , pp. 40 , 95–8 ) . |
| 19 | Two gigantic valves of carved bronze set with monstrous emeralds bar the way but as the ship approaches they smoothly swing back through the churning waters to reveal the Straits of Lothern . |
| 20 | As I ran my thumb over them , they immediately sprang back into place perfectly . |
| 21 | So if they immediately fall back on IS , I mean it |
| 22 | After she contacted her boyfriend and told him the news , they immediately headed back to Leeds . |
| 23 | The main advantage is that they do not intrude on floor space in the same way as a normal hinged door — they simply fold back on themselves to half width . |
| 24 | they then go back to their office and unfortunately a lot of what other people in the office are doing are taught |
| 25 | The little town was packed with milling crowds , but many of these were parents , come to collect their sons ' wages before they either went back to work or moved on to another farm . |
| 26 | but that surprised the man in the queue and yet interestingly I think that and she said I was right in my assumption that that is part of the partnership philosophy of John Lewis that they work in partnership with their staff and in partnership with the community and they make their profit which is generated to start through the community which they sell to and therefore they quietly give back without wanting to play their own trumpets and in a sense I think that 's how it should be . |
| 27 | ‘ We offered TSL a live feed for the US market at a cost of $1,000 per show , but they never got back to us ’ , said McEwan . |
| 28 | There was no announcement made at the end of the programme so , and they never got back to me , so I rang this morning first thing and last night they did n't ask me my name and address , but this morning they did . |
| 29 | Even if they never come back to Britain Balil and Samir will remember some things forever . |
| 30 | they never came back for me . |