Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wore a pale pink dress that swirled around slender legs and her hair was caught back with a matching headband . |
| 2 | Lightweight inexpensive fabrics like cheesecloth and muslin can be shirred and hung between rods , wires or traverse poles attached below the ceiling and above the skirting or baseboards , and either caught back at doors and windows or fixed around them ( with rods or wires attached to the top of the frames ) . |
| 3 | Inexpensive cottons can be hung from rods or poles and left to hang free at the bottom , although they should be caught back over doors and windows with tie-backs . |
| 4 | As they parked and headed for the open front door , a smiling woman in a dusky pink two-piece and with her silver hair caught back in a chignon appeared to welcome them . |
| 5 | it 'll probably twang back in again |
| 6 | checked with his radio , he goes alright then phoned back to the police station on his radio , he said it 's not stolen the owner 's now here he said , can you please get it moved ? |
| 7 | The arrival of the T9000 Transputer threatened to be an anti-climax , given that the device had been previewed back in 1991 ( CI No 1,653 ) . |
| 8 | The green man was flashing and we were crossing it and it just li I had to jump back onto the pavement ! |
| 9 | Longing now to jump back on board , Mungo watched as the mighty engine woke from its doze and heaved itself back to wakefulness with huge , slow piston strokes . |
| 10 | It 's really odd I do n't understand Si at all I decided , to jump back to that |
| 11 | Nevertheless , efforts were made to persuade Israel to accept back at least some of the refugees . |
| 12 | On Sunday China refused to accept back from Hong Kong a group of 71 Chinese illegal immigrants , saying it was in retaliation for allowing Mr Yang , a pro-democracy activist , to leave for asylum in the US . |
| 13 | What you 've got happening back in Moscow you can see happening here now . ’ |
| 14 | HP BITES BACK AT SUN 's CARROT … |
| 15 | As the gloom of evening began to settle over the leafy canopy Paige carried her last bundle of kindling back to their campsite . |
| 16 | The clones were multiplied in the glasshouse and then transplanted back into patches of the field dominated by the four grass species . |
| 17 | When newly awakened from lively dreams , we are so near them , still agitated by them , still in their sphere — give us one syllable , one feature , one hint , and we should repossess the whole ; hours of this strange entertainment would come trooping back to us ; but we can not get our hand on the first link or fibre , and the whole is lost . |
| 18 | I stood staring out of the window into the shifting , cloying mist and wondered about Mathilda 's ghosts trooping back to their worm-eaten beds . |
| 19 | Chief Whip Richard Ryder anxiously counted the numbers of MPs trooping back from the lobbies . |
| 20 | I have trespassed and will retreat back to Cambo and to the country just to the south of it . |
| 21 | Report back about being aggressive and we 'd like you to report back modelling an aggressive style , yeah ? |
| 22 | An Outreach scheme has been devised which divides the parish into six areas , each manned by teams of church members whose job it is to identify ways in which they can provide help and report back to the church . |
| 23 | Kirk elders were instructed to visit offenders and report back to the Session . |
| 24 | ‘ To watch the situation and report back to that stone-faced hypocritical bastard , Philip IV of France . |
| 25 | It will be handed to the working party of East Hampshire Road Safety Council who have to investigate , and report back to the matter to their main committee by April 15th . |
| 26 | Follow him , observe him , report back to me personally . |
| 27 | Report back to you when I get back to Vienna . |
| 28 | Keyence 's salesmen report back to the research department on what new machines their customers would find useful . |
| 29 | That makes it strategically important that I report back to Earth Central , Defries thought , and of course it also makes it highly unlikely that I 'll survive to do so . |
| 30 | On longer courses participants may be asked to talk to one of their own students and then report back to the group on his/her pattern of language use . |