Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the " source " for a story dies , or is out of the country , or has been promised confidentiality , or goes back on what he said , the difficulties of proving the truth of a true statement may be too great . |
| 2 | Thus , an anaphoric element such as a pronoun is treated as a word which substitutes for , or refers back to , another word or words . |
| 3 | There is no transport on the island , and to walk in perfect quiet along the little narrow roads , discovering wayside temples and little shrines ; meet a crowd of smiling , noisy children coming out of school ; or to go back to the quayside where fish , vegetables , cheap jewellery , sunglasses , cooked food , hot snacks were all being sold in the open air ; all this was a blissful change from the hectic atmosphere of the city . |
| 4 | It may be possible , while accepting the underlying general principle , to argue against its applicability to nuclear weapons : for instance , by saying that a nuclear bomb is not a chemical weapon as such , the poison gas being a mere incidental by-product ; or to go back to the fundamental prohibition of ‘ weapons that cause unnecessary suffering ’ and argue that the suffering caused by a nuclear weapon is not disproportionate to its military effectiveness . |
| 5 | Yeah I think at the onset of the strike there were a few people who were considered likely to be forced to get back to work or to go back to work , because of what they 'd said , because of well just you know because of what they say in the meetings or because of what they did n't say in the meetings . |
| 6 | The birds hatched in an incubator can then be hand-reared or given back to their parents , who will rear any number of chicks as long as they have enough food . |
| 7 | The Tribunal 's ruling stipulated , however , that the funds could be returned to the Philippines only after a Philippines court had issued a " legally binding verdict " on whether the assets were to be confiscated or given back to their claimants . |
| 8 | Sport offers spontaneity which , combined with ever more sophisticated technology , allows a viewer to watch a game from many different angles , moving in for a close-up on the agonized or exultant face of the athlete , or panning back for a shot of the pitch , track , or the seashore during an Open golf championship . |
| 9 | Fulfil consumables requests or report back to users CSO |
| 10 | They may be offered counselling , visited by a health visitor or referred back to their GP if the problem is medical . |
| 11 | They may be offered counselling , visited by a health visitor or referred back to their GP if the problem is medical . |
| 12 | But if Russia falls into anarchy or lurches back into despotism the price that we pay could be frightening . ’ |
| 13 | Then I 'll decide whether to post him the last reels of film in a Jiffy bag or fly back to London with them myself . |
| 14 | Soft materials , like fibreboards and soft furnishings , also do n't respond , and so prevent sound reflecting or bouncing back off them , as it would from a hard surface like a mirror . |
| 15 | Each house has a sophisticated meter attached to its TV set , which records exactly what is being played ( or played back on video ) . |
| 16 | be ready to make informed guesses , and to correct themselves in the light of additional information , eg by reading ahead or looking back in the text ; |
| 17 | Or came back to him . |
| 18 | At the same time , for those who have not arrived at , or hold back from such a step of faith , the Kingdom is not yet . |
| 19 | Always , when dead-heading or taking flowers as cut bloom , observe the above principle of cutting or cleaning back to just above a node . |
| 20 | Which was worse — staying here for the night or going back with him to the hotel ? |
| 21 | This aggression may be projected on to others , e.g. , middle management , or turned back upon himself . |
| 22 | Continue these small heading changes until the pointer is steady or moving back towards centre . |
| 23 | Well , every time I come off it , or get back into it , I 've learned something new about meself , like . |
| 24 | On the previous page are five of their most popular shapes , all of which can be worked onto the face or brushed back as an alternative . |
| 25 | That is , pronouns which ‘ shew ’ are called ‘ Demonstratives , because they shew a thynge not spoken of before ’ , while those that ‘ rehearse ’ are called ‘ relatives ’ , because they relate or refer back to something already mentioned — we would call them antecedents . |
| 26 | As the last of the boys arrived I thought that maybe I could just make my way to the back of the queue , or sprint back to the changing room on one pretext or another and conveniently lose my place in the line . |
| 27 | Other options open to the council include reducing the opening hours of all libraries or cutting back on the money it pends on books . |
| 28 | It had been a choice between bearing what he had or running back to Aber where he was privileged and protected , and for Harry that had been no choice at all . |
| 29 | They may have been open-fronted , the borders of the open seam being either fastened together or pinned back at the breast , again with brooches and pins . |
| 30 | Most units were usually too busy to go to war : dispersed on training schemes , preparing for some grand parade , absorbing new equipment , training for a tour of Northern Ireland or retraining back from it . |