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 . |