Example sentences of "can [vb infin] back [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that the central significance of economic support in families lies in its reliability : you always know that you can fall back upon the support of relatives if necessary and that this will be regarded as a legitimate request . |
| 2 | You ca n't save calculations , but you can track back through a chain of arithmetic , alter figures , and see the alterations reflected in the final sum . |
| 3 | Looking ahead , Souness said he was confident his side can bounce back in the League after the reverse at Tottenham . |
| 4 | The rent officer is also responsible for monitoring the rents which voluntary hostels can claim back in the form of housing benefits , and there are fears that the limits for hostels will be set at too low a level creating difficulties for both residents and the hostel management . |
| 5 | Alternatively , you can rock back into a cat stance knocking the opponent 's punch down with a slapping block performed with the rear hand . |
| 6 | And you and I , perhaps , we can look back to a day in our life when it was our birthday , as far as that is concerned and God filled us with his Holy Spirit , we received the gift of the Holy Spirit , we were baptized in the Holy Spirit . |
| 7 | Together , we can look back on a year of consider- able success , and forward to a new year of challenge . |
| 8 | The British landed gentry can look back on a past filled with special glories due to the responsibilities of their rank . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , we can look back on the year with pride and feel confident that our achievements stand us in good stead for 1992 . |
| 10 | However , the withering or die-back can run back beyond the node before the plant is able to form a self protective barrier of special cells , and keep on running , even into the main stem , and obviously cause serious trouble . |
| 11 | BELOW Training is a sequence of lessons , and at this stage , you can move back towards the dog and slip off its leash . |
| 12 | They see it working and often they are given a print out of the results at the end of a spectrum or something like that that they can take back to the school with them and analyze . |
| 13 | The fire of the Lady of the Hearth also symbolizes the way in which we can reach back to the past and forward to the future . |
| 14 | Yes I 'd love to think that I can struggle back with the tree . |
| 15 | What Derrida points out is that this view can creep back into the definition of the sign itself once it has been broken down into a signifier and a signified . |
| 16 | You can flip back to the File Manager using Alt+Esc , or Alt+Tab , which is neater … |
| 17 | So , I suppose one of them , right , we can make mature , so if you 'd like to put your handset by the side of your phone , do n't put it down , we 'll let that one mature and prove that after 75 seconds we ca n't lose them , and with the other one , can we just prove that we can go back to the conversation any time we like . |
| 18 | Well , I think we can go back to the Manor ground . |
| 19 | I think we can go back to the Manor ground though and have a quick word with Nick Harris . |
| 20 | Before the seventy-two hours are up , they can go back to the court and apply for an extension of the warrant of further detention by up to another thirty-six hours . |
| 21 | Perhaps it can be traced even deeper in the past — we can go back to the time when the woman first attracted the man whose child she will later bear , or to the onset of her menstruation , when her body signalled its readiness for pregnancy . |
| 22 | Now if we can go back to the cart that you 've kindly given |
| 23 | ‘ We can go back to the house now . ’ |
| 24 | At the same time , I 'm elated and I can go back to the vices I did have , ’ said Mr Tyson . |
| 25 | We 'll do a Pygmalion on you and you can go back to the hospital and charm them into letting your dad out . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Then we can go back to the car . ’ |
| 27 | Then if the crowds return we can go back to the salaries we deserve ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Most people are like plates , ’ she said instead ; ‘ so if one gets broken you can go back to the shop and get another one of similar pattern . ’ |
| 29 | Now if we can go back to the period when the eighty odd agreements was developed into one national agreement , it seemed to break up what we would term a big happy family . |
| 30 | ‘ We can go back through the Wolfwood and hope that we reach our original road again , ’ he said . |