Example sentences of "and [verb] back [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It slipped into the water , disappeared beneath the surface and , fifteen seconds later , bobbed up again and hopped back on to the rock . |
| 2 | Now he has had a chance to regroup and fall back on to the kind of terrain of which he is master — the written minute . |
| 3 | Henry went to the front hall , put the chicken and the jack on the table by the front door and trudged back out to the Passat . |
| 4 | And with that she reversed the van , turned it round and drove back on to the road . |
| 5 | Many of the drop-outs eventually left their flowers , cut their hair and dropped back in to the ‘ rat race ’ of business , commerce and industry . |
| 6 | Well that 's just what it looks like here you just eating al fresco and going back up to the chateau at a night |
| 7 | She pushed all serious thoughts to the back of her mind and climbed back on to the helter-skelter of excitement and self-confidence induced by the undisguised admiration of Karl Gesner . |
| 8 | But at least I had the sense to keep my mouth shut , and shortly afterwards we were able to leave the railway and get back on to the road . |
| 9 | After delivering the kick , the foot must be pulled back very quickly and brought back down to the ground to leave the karateka in his original stance . |
| 10 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 11 | I got up and went back down to the kitchen to lock up and get my gear , then I went to the bathroom . |
| 12 | She dropped the phone back on its hook and rolled back on to the bed , her eyes tight shut . |
| 13 | It was 2 a.m. — ‘ last call ’ — when we piled into Clay 's wagon and rolled back out to the ranch . |
| 14 | Collecting my thoughts I baited up with a fresh squid and cast back out to the same spot , bobbin on the needle and it was back to the bedchair . |
| 15 | I ran into the road , did a Highland fling and ran back on to the pavement . |
| 16 | She switched on the engine and headed back on to the road . |
| 17 | The algorithm calculates diff recursively for nodes in successive layers , starting at the top output layer and working back down to the input layer — hence its name , back propagation . |