Example sentences of "back and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether he is sober enough to go back and fetch his dilapidated car , or should soldier on , is the question here , or at any rate part of it . |
| 2 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 3 | Only to say I came back and saw glass as another might see it . |
| 4 | The chariot moves back and forth , he wrote , but to no purpose . |
| 5 | Not the desire to destroy it , but rather to turn time back and let me never have been involved with it . |
| 6 | The chariot goes back and forth , back and forth , chanting its litany , he wrote . |
| 7 | The chariot goes back and forth , back and forth , chanting its litany , he wrote . |
| 8 | After a while he stepped back and puffed again at my side . |
| 9 | Brown , who went on a one-day course at T IS before coming back and installing the system at Morgan Grenfell , is now teaching colleagues to use it , including unit manager Karen Goate , ‘ Computers used to frighten me , but not now , ’ she says . |
| 10 | His bleary eyes filled with tears but he tilted his head back and glared at the top of the tent . |
| 11 | It must have taken her an awful lot to write those words , and they were why I felt I could go back and see her now . |
| 12 | I resolved to go back and then decided I could n't . |
| 13 | ‘ You will go back and see your friends , though . ’ |
| 14 | I sat back and relaxed for a moment . |
| 15 | ‘ Look , if it does n't work out , come back and see us and we 'll try to do something for you , OK ? ’ |
| 16 | In this situation you are bound to pull back and apply the aileron and rudder to stop the nose and wing from dropping . |
| 17 | If the nose is dropping in spite of pulling back and hitting the back stop , this is a clear indication that the glider is stalled , and a forward movement is needed for a few seconds to let the wing unstall . |
| 18 | In this position , the glider is on a base leg for any available field upwind and it is easy to look back and decide whether returning to the field is practical . |
| 19 | Less affected people will move their head back and push forwards on the stick . |
| 20 | He will have little opportunity to stand back and examine the data in the cool light of the academic ‘ ivory tower ’ . |
| 21 | You would be , snarled Jay , smiling back and lighting a cigarette . |
| 22 | ‘ I want a photo of you , ’ she said wolfishly , leaning back and smiling straight into Lucy 's eyes . |
| 23 | He wanted an open relationship after a while which meant him bringing bits of trade back and then saying could n't we be just sisters ? |
| 24 | Jay sat back and crossed her arms . |
| 25 | Scoop the opponent 's front kick , drawing it back and up to break his balance |
| 26 | Move diagonally back and catch the opponent 's kicking foot with a reverse scooping block |
| 27 | The second reason is that it draws the punching hip right back and cocks it , without telegraphing this fact to the opponent . |
| 28 | If your kick is such that you can pull it back and reassume your original stance , it is too weak to score . |
| 29 | If you succeed , twist your hips back and reverse punch the opponent s face . |
| 30 | This means that even if the opponent throws a punch , you will have drawn back and out of range . |