Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , as so often , I did not come back to bed . |
| 2 | ‘ I did not come back to international rugby just to be the grandad of the B side . |
| 3 | and I 've not come back till twelve ! |
| 4 | I have not heard back from you since then , and I wondered if you could please confirm that you are still interested in receiving a copy of the tape ? |
| 5 | ‘ I have not got back to my normal working routine , quite honestly . |
| 6 | She decided not to go back to the bank , because they would have had to create a special job for her . |
| 7 | But she did not go back to the kitchen . |
| 8 | Nenna 's children neither showed any interest in where she had been nor in why she did not come back until next morning . |
| 9 | She did not look back at Ursula or down into the valley , but trained her eyes forward , fixing them on the interior of the Mercedes and the dark shape of its occupant as , with every step , clarity threatened to break upon her vision . |
| 10 | She did not hurry back to the house . |
| 11 | It is a complacent researcher indeed who does not look back on the research findings and wish that some things had been done better . |
| 12 | She had not gone back to whoring , but eked out a miserable living as a washerwoman , for which she lacked the stamina . |
| 13 | Most of them are ex-soldiers , many from the Afghan campaign , who have not settled back into civilian life . |
| 14 | I am listening to what the Lord God is saying ; he promises peace to us , his own people , if we do not go back to our foolish ways . |
| 15 | Response : I am listening to what the Lord God is saying ; he promises peace to us , his own people , if we do not go back to our foolish ways . |
| 16 | Although when regressed one does not go back to the immediate past life , then the one before it , then the one before that and so on , by the time Martin had experienced regression six times it was possible to put the lives in chronological order so that we could try and see if there was any lesson to be learnt from them . |
| 17 | They did not go back to ‘ living together ’ even in the purely conceptual sense of many academic couples they knew , separated by their jobs . |
| 18 | The first- and second-person pronouns are typical examples in that they do not refer back to a nominal expression in the text but to the speaker and hearer ( or writer and reader ) respectively . |
| 19 | He agreed not to go back to the house and got a friend to collect some of his belongings . |
| 20 | Both roles have involved handing out criticism , a task he has not held back from especially in this , the last year before he retires . |
| 21 | A kiss where she raised her lips to his , and he did not hold back from moving his head down to hers , and , as her heart started to sing , so her arms went up and around him . |
| 22 | An agitated old lady addressed Ramsey severely and asked why he did not go back to his own country and do good there instead of stirring up trouble in the United States . |
| 23 | And again , if he wanted to alter a painting later after its completion , if he did not go back to the first idea and atmosphere of conception , he could never make the alteration a success . |
| 24 | He did not come back until the evening , and then he was drunk . |
| 25 | Needless to say , he did not get back to her . |
| 26 | In August 1918 my father was recalled to London to report to the Foreign Office and he did not get back until mid-December . |
| 27 | It did not look back at Alice , but said , ‘ One side will make you taller , and the other side will make you shorter . ’ |
| 28 | Since he had not come back to Møn he must be dead — there could be no other explanation . |
| 29 | Swales might , at last , have made a wise decision — if he does not go back on it at the first sign of failure . |
| 30 | Also , he does not turn back after facing such difficulties as the weather and the people 's hostility towards him . |