Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They shuffle out to a soft rhythmic crunching underfoot , reminiscent of how the boots of Napoleon 's legions must have sounded trudging back through the Russian snows . |
| 2 | Presumably he must have arranged to fly back during that telephone call last night . |
| 3 | She could have refused to go back to the Ward house , but she owed this woman everything . |
| 4 | And he 'd have had to hold back on some of the madder racist stuff in.public . |
| 5 | Stephen would have preferred to walk back across the Vale of Allen and Foinmen 's Plain but he had no torch and tonight there would only be a thin , new moon . |
| 6 | A scheme under which producers would have held supplies back from the market , approved in March 1988 but never implemented due to a shortage of funds , was formally abandoned . |
| 7 | If we fell off the rope we would have had to go back to the start . |