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 . |