Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Longing now to jump back on board , Mungo watched as the mighty engine woke from its doze and heaved itself back to wakefulness with huge , slow piston strokes . |
| 2 | HP BITES BACK AT SUN 's CARROT … |
| 3 | AA REPORT BACK TO CAMP IMMEDIATELY |
| 4 | Then send the message ‘ AA REPORT BACK TO CAMP IMMEDIATELY ’ again — but this time in Morse ! |
| 5 | That makes it strategically important that I report back to Earth Central , Defries thought , and of course it also makes it highly unlikely that I 'll survive to do so . |
| 6 | Press back in place |
| 7 | We might then be able to work back from lifestyle and abilities to predict what the brain of a particular species should be like ( Legg 1983 ) . |
| 8 | The package to be updated is read from LIFESPAN , updated to reference the modules to be incorporated in the baseline , and then entered back into LIFESPAN . |
| 9 | When Angel One had reported back to Dragon Control early on the day following the destruction of his Bethlehem House base , the Controller had been unable to keep the malicious satisfaction out of his voice when he had berated him for his ignominious failure , as he put it , in allowing his entire organisation to be destroyed by unforeseen enemy action . |
| 10 | The director duly reported back to base camp that Douglas had rejected every concession he had made in order to get him to accept the part . |
| 11 | Driving back into town , he put them down near their homes , Nutty , Nails and Gary getting out last down by the bus-station . |
| 12 | Next year my wife starts in earnest on the gardens , driving back to Blackberry and Elver , while I experiments with the outside colour scheme . |
| 13 | Instead of driving back to Broom House , she went into the village . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm far too tired to start driving back across town now . |
| 15 | I had the strange feeling I was driving back in time , groping my way into a world of Inca and Chimú people , a world of great empires that built roads and temples and forts of mud on the coast and of cut stone in the Andes , stone that was dove-tailed to resist the trembling of its foundations when the earth quaked . |
| 16 | It 's another of his ideas which he keeps trying to interest people in ; he has a manuscript on the subject ( ‘ The State of the Fart ’ ) which he also sends away to London to publishers now and again and which they of course send back by return . |
| 17 | Walking back to happiness |
| 18 | With an irritating lack of urgency he closed his eyes again and sank back into oblivion , leaving Lissa to grind her teeth in frustration . |
| 19 | No , not at all , and then , even in her confused state , her mind shied away from the reasons for her distaste , and she found herself saying even through her pain and shock , ‘ I will not think about that , I will not , ’ and so saying she stopped struggling and sank back into oblivion once more . |
| 20 | She sank back in despair . |
| 21 | The first seventeen chapters of Scale 2 provide a context for this discussion which looks back to Scale 1 . |
| 22 | In her new book , she looks back with affection on her wartime adventures . |
| 23 | In her new book , she looks back with affection on her wartime adventures . |
| 24 | For that reason , Sir Adrian looks back with gratitude on the job-rotation policy that was an integral part of basic training when he joined the family firm after coming down from Cambridge in 1952 . |
| 25 | A sprightly 81 years old , this English engineer and inventor looks back with satisfaction on a lifetime as an explorer of the heavens , the Earth , and the limits of the technically feasible . |
| 26 | When they reached the destination the driver looks back in horror and says the poodle has disgraced itself . |
| 27 | Numbers 20 itself looks back in verse 24 , and talks of Moses and Aaron rebelling against God 's command , and 27.14 uses much the same terms . |
| 28 | Veteran looks back in anguish Wednesday People . |
| 29 | Once , there must have been a single core-vessel which had lost its way or had lost the use of its warp-vanes so that it could no longer jump back into truespace . |
| 30 | and then drops back into recitative with his contemptuous ‘ Ma che una feminella … |