Example sentences of "we [be] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To answer this question we are led back to the idea of big gassy planets like Jupiter spitting out small rocky ones like Venus , which then play a sort of cosmic billiards before settling down . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |
| 3 | De Klerk said his visit showed South Africa and the world that " we are moving back to the fold " . |
| 4 | Here again , we are taken back to the very beginning of the town , to the years just after the Norman Conquest — for King 's Lynn is not really old by English standards . |
| 5 | Like Jonah , we are all storm-tossed by the seas of life , undergo apparent death and certain burial , but then attain a blinding resurrection as the car-ferry doors swing open and we are delivered back into the light and into a recognition of God 's love . |
| 6 | And with that slice of humour , we are brought back to the present . |
| 7 | But if that is put on one side we are brought back to the question of what kinds of determining factors Poulantzas invokes in order to explain what actually happens . |
| 8 | No-one can deny that being pretty helps — no female on breakfast television would have a career otherwise — but I can not believe that we are turning back to the dark days when it was deemed the most important thing of all . |
| 9 | Action round-up time now … two big events this week … we 're looking back on the RAC Rally and forward to the Hennesey Gold Cup |
| 10 | ‘ We 're moving back to the Front . |
| 11 | We 're walking back from the shops — me and Marie — and we stop for a bit to look at the lights in the electric shop . |
| 12 | Do you think you could look into trying to , when we 're going back on the information , sending an individual fax for each case ? |
| 13 | ‘ We 're going back to the wireless room . |
| 14 | ‘ We 're going back to the boat , ’ he said tersely . |
| 15 | ‘ You 've found us , we 're going back to the quarry , everything 's all right , ’ he said soothingly . |
| 16 | We 're going back to the woodblock flooring . |
| 17 | But see we 're going back to the old seasons now . |
| 18 | " We 're going back by the beach , " Kate said . |
| 19 | And the Monday especially if we 're travelling back on the Monday |
| 20 | Off you go , ’ and I gathered we were to go back to the beginning and start again . |
| 21 | But we were pulled back from the brink ; the attempt failed . |
| 22 | We were driven back through the nearly empty streets . |
| 23 | Then we were walking back towards the carriage , and as we passed I heard Mr Jonesy say to the preacher , ‘ I 'll give 'im the devil when I get 'im 'ome . ’ |
| 24 | On the contrary , when that afternoon 's session ended and we were walking back across the campus , he put one of his Anglepoise arms across my shoulders and attempted some avuncularity . |
| 25 | As we were walking back through the garden to the house , he said to me , ‘ Jane , you 've had a strange night . |
| 26 | At the Legation we were welcomed back by the servants and reverted happily to our accustomed way of life . |
| 27 | Because when we were coming back from the park at er , no not the park where was we ? |
| 28 | Shelter said : ‘ We were taken back by the response . |
| 29 | And , when we were driving back towards the tunnel , do you know Upper Parliament Street ? |
| 30 | Tremayne said nothing until we were driving back to the stable and then all he did was ask me if I were happy with what I 'd done . |