Example sentences of "[vb infin] back [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 But stand-in skipper McAllister is confident that Leeds will bounce back in the style that made them champions last May .
2 She let it fall back into the water when she heard what John had told Larry .
3 does it make any sense , like you could at least sort of fall back on the toilet or something .
4 If I may hark back to the answer that I gave to the right hon. Member for Morley and Leeds , South ( Mr. Rees ) , one of the areas on which there has been a significant concentration by the Government and the security forces in recent years is the financial resources available to terrorists — I hasten to say on both sides of the community .
5 Suitable scenes of red-faced hilarity would occur back at the office as someone always tipped off the entire staff to be ready at the front door .
6 He could n't touch her , she really was too young ; he imagined the pale peach cheeks of her child 's cunt and the runny sweetness inside , and thought he might duck back to the hut and toss himself off .
7 He heard the girl run back down the steps and her footsteps faded in the distance .
8 However , the withering or die-back can run back beyond the node before the plant is able to form a self protective barrier of special cells , and keep on running , even into the main stem , and obviously cause serious trouble .
9 He saw himself look back along the train and then remember the first premonition .
10 If you have given birth , can you look back over the process and recognize how it has changed you ?
11 Either they must draw back from the spotlight and forfeit their privileges or pick their partners based on purely practical criteria .
12 He squatted and started to pick them up , then let them drop back to the floor and just crouched there and put his hands over his face and started to cry .
13 BELOW Training is a sequence of lessons , and at this stage , you can move back towards the dog and slip off its leash .
14 According to one hypothesis ( p. 90–91 ) , the smell of its home stream is memorized by the young salmon , and when it grows up it will migrate back to the river that smells like its home stream .
15 Then he could think back over the rising and understand and admit its weaknesses and set himself to imagine a better future …
16 As the Prime Minister savours one of his last few busy days before the deluge , will he think back to the dinner that he gave at No. 10 Downing street last November on behalf of the Tory party for what The Sun — I must quote it accurately because it is from The Sun —
17 The fire of the Lady of the Hearth also symbolizes the way in which we can reach back to the past and forward to the future .
18 He might also press back against the plinth when he tried to move his seat or legs .
19 One of the things we 've been doing this year is to actually have a club once a week , a sort of club night , when teachers can come it — this is particularly primary teachers — and use our machinery , look at our programs , go through our library and meet each other , so that the people who have got some expertise can then go back to the school and sort of spread their information and their enthusiasm in their schools .
20 If so , ’ his voice thickened , ‘ let's go back to the hotel and go straight to bed ! ’
21 ‘ If you do n't help us , ’ said Masklin quietly , ‘ we 'll go back to the quarry and face the humans , but that wo n't matter to you because we 'll leave you here .
22 He would then go back to the Bar and try to make a living there .
23 So I , I will go back to the developer and see if they will be prepared to fund traffic calming work .
24 If he was n't home , I 'd go back to the squat and keep my head down for a few days .
25 He was told , ‘ You can always go back to the court if your circumstances change ’ .
26 Before the seventy-two hours are up , they can go back to the court and apply for an extension of the warrant of further detention by up to another thirty-six hours .
27 If the building society or bank has agreed to lend you 90 per cent of the purchase price and the surveyor says that the property is worth every bit of the asking price , then you just might go back to the society and ask for 100 per cent , based on the glowing survey report in your hand .
28 Ireland should go back to the past and pray and concentrate on God .
29 ‘ Why did n't you go back to the road and phone a taxi ? ’
30 However , the uncompromising early work still shocks and knocks you about and one must go back to the beginning when the young artist and her Nanas were very angry indeed .
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