Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] back [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could then either wait for the ferry , which was sporadic , or go back up to the head of the estuary and up to where the river was narrow enough for a bridge . |
| 2 | Such round , smooth shapes are the perfect foil to the railway sleepers that are used as informal steps down to the lowest level of all , a curved brick paved sitting area that looks back up towards the house . |
| 3 | ‘ When I talk to people about how best to protect themselves from attack I always tell them that if they can turn that surprise back on to the attacker they have a better chance of making an escape . |
| 4 | This provides medical , laboratory , and nursing back up for the village outreach programme and deals with health problems of local townspeople . |
| 5 | It slipped into the water , disappeared beneath the surface and , fifteen seconds later , bobbed up again and hopped back on to the rock . |
| 6 | Now he has had a chance to regroup and fall back on to the kind of terrain of which he is master — the written minute . |
| 7 | Henry went to the front hall , put the chicken and the jack on the table by the front door and trudged back out to the Passat . |
| 8 | And with that she reversed the van , turned it round and drove back on to the road . |
| 9 | Many of the drop-outs eventually left their flowers , cut their hair and dropped back in to the ‘ rat race ’ of business , commerce and industry . |
| 10 | Well that 's just what it looks like here you just eating al fresco and going back up to the chateau at a night |
| 11 | He quickly stubbed out the cigarette , replaced his head and raced back up into the daylight to entertain the kids . |
| 12 | She pushed all serious thoughts to the back of her mind and climbed back on to the helter-skelter of excitement and self-confidence induced by the undisguised admiration of Karl Gesner . |
| 13 | But at least I had the sense to keep my mouth shut , and shortly afterwards we were able to leave the railway and get back on to the road . |
| 14 | Blanche held the man 's gaze for a second and glanced back down at the piece of paper . |
| 15 | Tossing her safari jacket aside with a regretful air , she shrugged on the purloined lab coat , picked up a dusty clipboard from the shelf , and stepped back out into the corridor . |
| 16 | Here is now , left edge of the penalty area , moving towards the byline and doing well there to take it away from him but at the expense of a throw-in , that 's taken back to Alan , is twenty yards back from the byline and moving back out towards the touchline on the far side . |
| 17 | Belle 's hair was grey and clipped back out of the way and her skin was sallow . |
| 18 | After delivering the kick , the foot must be pulled back very quickly and brought back down to the ground to leave the karateka in his original stance . |
| 19 | At the surface of the milky-looking gas he paused , and looked back up at the three masked faces , conscious all the while of the increasing rhythm of his breathing . |
| 20 | The moon was now hidden by clouds as Ellie turned and looked back out of the window . |
| 21 | The voices belonged to Rohmer and Jimmy Devlin , but he could n't hear what they were arguing about as he hauled himself around the staircase rail , paused for gasping breath and looked back down into the stairwell . |
| 22 | He sighed and looked back down at the page before closing the book . |
| 23 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 24 | I got up and went back down to the kitchen to lock up and get my gear , then I went to the bathroom . |
| 25 | She dropped the phone back on its hook and rolled back on to the bed , her eyes tight shut . |
| 26 | It was 2 a.m. — ‘ last call ’ — when we piled into Clay 's wagon and rolled back out to the ranch . |
| 27 | Collecting my thoughts I baited up with a fresh squid and cast back out to the same spot , bobbin on the needle and it was back to the bedchair . |
| 28 | I ran into the road , did a Highland fling and ran back on to the pavement . |
| 29 | She switched on the engine and headed back on to the road . |
| 30 | ‘ Be my guest , ’ Ben said , and stood back out of the way while Andrew examined him gently but thoroughly . |