Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the patient can not use the lexical procedure to read , say , pint , and so has to fall back upon the non-lexical procedure , a reading error will result : pint will be read with a short i ( as in mint ) . |
| 2 | One only has to see Back to the Future to realize what problems could arise . |
| 3 | He would have liked to give more information , ask someone to research the final days of the tsar ; but he knew that would only have got back to the KGB , and in this game secrecy was the only key he held . |
| 4 | Eighteen months later , in March 1944 , at a second Chinese-sponsored conference at Liuchow , Ho had not only managed to slip back under the nationalist umbrella of the Dong Minh Hoi but , as one of its representatives , was named as a member of a Provisional Government which was expecting to enter Vietnam in the wake of the ‘ liberating ’ Chinese armies . |
| 5 | Both were successful in their task , Phyllisia no longer has to go back to the West Indies and Celie was reunited with all her family . |
| 6 | Now that the party can no longer call on state finances , it will have to streamline its bureaucracy , and has already decided to hand back to the nation all superfluous assets , including the party 's holiday homes , hotels … and its headquarters . |
| 7 | She hated having to scan it in reverse rather than just rewind to go back to the same sequence the girl had been watching when she came in but Jezrael had n't thought to check the counter . |
| 8 | She just wanted to sink back into the dream and give in to the lovely floating sensation . |
| 9 | Terry did n't want any truck with service medicos , he just wanted to get back to the States and see Madeleine , Sulome and Gabrielle . |
| 10 | And I just need to come back to the point that my client certainly does n't support either of them . |
| 11 | STUART RIPLEY could hardly wait to get back on the Ayresome Park pitch but , once there , was glad to get off again , writes David Alexander . |
| 12 | The occasional dinner party was a social duty ; they could hardly wait to get back to the seclusion of their own small house . |
| 13 | And , as one later moved into other divisions to be taught by other people one always seemed to come back to the Roman Conquest of Britain , which I found particularly boring , and learnt nothing . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been round the instrument circuit from A to Z , Alembic to Zon , and I always seem to come back to the P-bass , always . |
| 15 | oh yeah they usually manage to come back in the end |
| 16 | Well we 're still waiting to go back to the Manor Ground and catch up with Nick Harris . |
| 17 | She turned round and quickly began to walk back towards the door . |
| 18 | Always keep coming back to the point from which you start , and try to select other roads to follow . |
| 19 | It produces the archetypal image of the Christian , afraid of life , always trying to climb back into the Garden of Eden , by creating a world of fantasy if necessary to inhabit at the expense of living in the real world . |
| 20 | How she had ever managed to get back to the Shelbourne , she did n't know . |
| 21 | You 're preparing me to go out into the street , but I still have to go back to the system first . |
| 22 | For example , if you are catching the ball in front of the body , then you have the freedom to throw the ball in any direction but if you catch the ball behind the body , you still have to come back to the position to the front of the body and to do this takes more time . |
| 23 | I mean effectively , I always wanted to go back to the middle ages er , with , with the history books of English society . |
| 24 | The privatization bill will probably have to go back to the upper house , whatever happens in the Commons . |
| 25 | For comparison , one really has to go back to the Renaissance , to someone like Giovanni Bellini , who travelled an enormous territory ; even to Giotto , the artist who Matisse said was the peak of his aspiration . |
| 26 | K : ‘ We would really like to move back to the area where we were brought up . |
| 27 | And of course you really , in order to get at the origins of history , you 've really got to go back to the , to the Greeks . |
| 28 | I mean he was saying look we 're going to go out and we 're going to market Britain to the overseas visitors and they do bring a lot of money into this country , but I mean are we really going to get back to the levels that we 've seen in recent years ? |
| 29 | He even tried sneaking back to the library at night , thinking the Bookman might appear after dark , but had to stop this when he backed into Mr Crangle , who was up to the same thing . |
| 30 | This had several squares of very heavy , dark grey woollen cloth which Mum told me came from her own great grandmother 's cloak , so presumably could well have dated back to the eighteenth century . |