Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It has now reverted back to a quiet village , disturbed only at weekends by visitors from surrounding areas who come to fish , walk the frontage and watch the departure or arrival of passenger ferries and other shipping .
2 Now effectively shy of two of those founders , it has essentially retracted back to a die-hard core of some two dozen companies from a highly publicised swell of some 250 industry lights .
3 It did not look back at Alice , but said , ‘ One side will make you taller , and the other side will make you shorter . ’
4 It did n't come back with a refusal and allow us to discuss alternative ways of achieving our objective .
5 And it makes you wonder as well if it did n't revolve back onto he children you know .
6 ‘ When the girl , Louise Taylor , and then Inspector Leeming were found , I do n't believe it did n't get back to the KGB .
7 It did n't hark back to a mythical , puritan past but went super-realistic instead .
8 How clearly it had all come back to her — even the piping treble of her own childish voice .
9 I am trying to avoid going that far : it does keep the ear occupied , at least for its duration , even if it does n't drift back into your consciousness afterwards , and these are solid , lusty performances by the Camerata quartet , a young Polish group , in impressively immediate recordings .
10 I think you maintain an excellent record in that but it does still come back to getting people into the theatre .
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