Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the lack of wind , over the past hour a swell had built beyond the reef — a strange , almost oily swell that rose in long humps only to collapse back on itself as if exhausted by the effort . |
| 2 | You 've got , again , a much more stable population , there are n't nearly so many teachers , young women teachers who leave the system to get married and then perhaps do n't go back at all , or only go back on a part-time basis . |
| 3 | So do n't come back at me with any crap about my specific orders . |
| 4 | I 've read it over and over again , but I just keep on going back to it , cos I can just go on reading it for |
| 5 | I still have n't heard back from the young lady who sent me the Valentine card ; did you really mean it ? |
| 6 | ‘ Now do n't go back to that , old girl , ’ said Ben . |
| 7 | Once she 'd had the baby , she immediately set about getting back to her ‘ normal ’ weight , even though that weight was so low that her body could not function normally . |
| 8 | They cut a swathe through the massed black-clad warriors , and then turning swiftly trampled back over their disorganized ranks . |
| 9 | Tom used to go white and silent at first , and then end up shouting back in sheer self-defence . ’ |
| 10 | Slowly take both arms back behind you , until the fingertips are touching . |