Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 They are not reasons for the impulses but causes that hark back to the primitive responses that we share with many animals ; yet qualified by noting that we , unlike dumb brutes , can reflect upon our impulses and resist them if we so decide , as happened in my example .
2 ‘ There they are sorted and put back on the vehicles and re-delivered so that the franchisees can deliver them first thing in the morning . ’
3 Just for a moment , standing by the window , dropping the edge of the curtain he had lifted and turning back towards the cot , Adam saw the picture again , saw it with an awful clarity on the darkness before his eyes .
4 Descend and head back into the forest going south-west then south to post 21 .
5 He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter .
6 Daine had been caught and convicted back in the real world .
7 The Dwarfs inside Kislev attempted to break out to help Magnus but they were contained and forced back behind the city 's walls .
8 It has stuck to an antiquated way of operating that harks back to the days of guild power , and has refused to countenance criticism .
9 The leaders turned and rode back to the inferno of a village .
10 The three faces turned and glared back over the demon 's shoulders .
11 When Patrick had stormed out of the room , his head pounding , bile in his throat , he had started for his room , but then he had thought of Jane , and he had turned and headed back down the hall towards the room she shared with her sister .
12 Alexei turned and shouted back into the house .
13 Vic 's house , at the end of the village , was detached and set back from the road behind a neat lawn .
14 In Type I disease , the calves have usually been set-stocked in one area for several moths ; in contrast , Type II disease often has a typical history of calves being grazed on a field from spring to mid-summer , then moved and brought back to the original field in the autumn .
15 Then he drags his victim into the bushes or the trees , kills and cuts back to the other road and the car and makes his getaway .
16 Which was supposed to open and flap back at the end of the world and let her out , resurrected .
17 Then we 'd dress and go back to the bar , order
18 We mounted and rode back through the lazy summer sunshine , the Scottish troopers massing behind whilst Vauban pushed forward between us .
19 The information is then downloaded and sent back to the customer .
20 ‘ An alternative theory is that the killer knocked him out first , then went into the washroom to strip and came back for the final throat-cutting before Berowne had a chance to come round .
21 All she wanted now was to get really stoned and lie back on the mattress thinking good thoughts .
22 She turns and goes back to the house .
23 This ensures that the relevant lessons are distilled and fed back into the appraisal stage of subsequent projects .
24 He burst out laughing , and before she could retort he swivelled and made back towards the stables .
25 But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip .
26 Ben hurried to the shutters and threw them open , then turned and stared back into the room .
27 It had become a very sad sight indeed , but Jack hardly noticed as he turned and stared back down the hill to Sakata , its neat rows of buildings looking like so much Lego .
28 He turned and stared back down the muddy track .
29 With a slow smile that gave his face quite extraordinary charm , he picked up his bowl , waved a languid hand , then turned and ambled back across the garden , his borrowings clutched ridiculously to his large chest .
30 She stared at me blankly for a moment , then turned and went back to the sitting room .
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