Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't until some years later that I came back to the question of the receptors and showed that the most dramatic effects involved the NMDA glutamate receptor I mentioned in the last chapter ( but wo n't discuss further here ) . |
| 2 | She hesitated over several , dark , rather unobtrusive garments in one corner , thinking that they looked harmless until two creeping , fog-like hands reached for her and an evil chuckle filled the room , so that she shot back to the room 's centre out of their reach . |
| 3 | She was all but out of the door on her way to Oxford Street when , incredibly , she found herself shaking , so much so that she went back into the tiny bedroom and lay down . |
| 4 | ‘ Dammit to hell , ’ he cursed , letting her go abruptly so that she fell back on the bed in an untidy heap . |
| 5 | She could feel the moment when he decided to thrust her away from him , abruptly stepping back , the shock of their coming apart striking as swift as a blow , stunning her , so that she fell back against the parapet , her lips swollen by the passion of his taking , a soft anguished breath escaping from between them . |
| 6 | Her legs took the decision from her , buckling so quickly that she stumbled back to the bed . |
| 7 | And it 's also important that we look back over the last ten years to how the N H S has been fundamentally changed as a consequence of Tory government policy towards it . |
| 8 | Well she 's got yes she got a she she sleeps in a in a special place but what she does is she 's got a rug erm we 've got a a rug in front of the fire here that we bought back from the States , and everything she finds that she likes she brings into the lounge and puts on the rug . |
| 9 | Do make sure too , especially on some of the brushes that have washers ( plastic coverings ) , that they go back in the right order and that the screw is done up IN THE CENTRE of the washer . |
| 10 | That they carry back to the crevice |
| 11 | Flowers visited by passerines are twisted such that they face back to the peduncle , on which the perching bird stands : hummingbird flowers differ in being tubular and sticking outwards making them readily accessible to hovering birds . |
| 12 | Some stars will become so small that their gravitational fields will bend light to that point that it comes back toward the star . |
| 13 | Flinging open the door of his office so that it hurtled back against the wall , he did n't even bother to answer . |
| 14 | Taskopruzade 's statement that he came back at the request of a repentant sultan is , of course , highly doubtful in view of the fact that his departure and return seem certain to have occurred in the reigns of different sultans . |
| 15 | He is 33 , he appears unstoppable , and he is perfectly aware that he came back from the grave . |
| 16 | I persuaded a friend of mine to visit the summit one evening and he was so taken in by the view that he stepped back from the trig point and disappeared over the edge of the crag that crowns the top . |