Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UN flies bodies home THE BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen were flown home to Pakistan yesterday as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days ’ . |
| 2 | BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen in Mogadishu were flown home to Pakistan as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days . ’ |
| 3 | The finish of radiotherapy caused values to fall back towards baseline after four weeks . |
| 4 | Curtis had closed that side door twice but I 'd found reasons to go back through , the dogs ' bowls , checking the padlock on the cellar and , somehow , I did n't bother to shut it . |
| 5 | Quacking and complaining , the ducks hopped back into the water and swam away . |
| 6 | Mr Ashford said the exams harked back to those of the 1950s when memory was all that mattered and certain sections of right-wing politicians were totally committed to them . |
| 7 | We had centuries of contacts to fall back on . |
| 8 | To enable researchers to report back on the results of recently completed research in the Scottish courts to an invited audience comprising the various branches of the legal profession , policy makers concerned with the administration of justice , pressure group and voluntary organisations and to stimulate an informed discussion of key findings . |
| 9 | ‘ I need a few hours to report back to the office , then my time can be my own . |
| 10 | But you must you must have been asked dozens of times to go back into the pop concert field ? |
| 11 | To test this particular application of Procedure Audit , a monitoring process was established in a section of thirty persons , and the administrative assistant briefed to record the number of queries referred back over a period of two months . |
| 12 | ‘ And you have no plans to go back into general nursing ? ’ |
| 13 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |
| 14 | The transition back to work is easier , however , if individuals have worked previously and have skills to fall back on . |
| 15 | I thus set about preparing for the days ahead as , I imagine , a general might prepare for a battle : I devised with utmost care a special staff plan anticipating all sorts of eventualities ; I analysed where our weakest points lay and set about making contingency plans to fall back upon in the event of these points giving way ; I even gave the staff a military-style ‘ pep-talk ’ , impressing upon them that , for all their having to work at an exhausting rate , they could feel great pride in discharging their duties over the days that lay ahead . |
| 16 | In a television address , he called on deputies to pull back from the brink . |
| 17 | In a television address , he called on deputies to pull back from the brink . |
| 18 | Although the Germans bounced back with a 4-1 defeat of Uruguay four days later , the Brazilian experience has left its scars . |
| 19 | By 1985 only 5% did so , as the final test , order consolidation and shipping operations moved back to American manufacturing plants . |
| 20 | New York Giants moved back into the play-off picture by beating Washington Redskins 24–7 . |
| 21 | Adjusters reports should be carefully checked and any omissions or queries referred back to the Adjuster . |
| 22 | Recently released Home Office papers in fact show that the authorities drew back from prosecuting even the most blatant cases of anti-semitic propaganda both before and during the Second World War despite the fact that it was ostensibly being fought to destroy Hitlerism . |
| 23 | I tucked the binoculars into the holdall again and without any sensible plans wandered back towards the dining car . |
| 24 | In regard to the first , for example — that kasabat kadis did not normally enter or re-enter the medrese stream-two caveats must be entered , the first of which is that one must explicitly exclude two areas in which movement between kadiliks and medreses was not uncommon : first , the kadiliks and medreses below the level at which the hierarchy began to operate , whose holders received perhaps five , ten or fifteen akce a day ; and second , those at the top of the hierarchy , since it was not uncommon for holders of mevleviyet kadiliks to go back to medrese teaching as a form of either temporary or permanent retirement from service as a kadi or a kazasker . |
| 25 | Jean : She 's told some kids to go back to their own country . |
| 26 | Obsessed as the Legion was with tradition , many of the songs harked back to Indo-China and Algeria , to when a man could expect to serve his entire contract without seeing Europe . |
| 27 | Then , in the light reflected from the snow , he saw Manescu 's dark eyes gazing back at him . |
| 28 | Was she imagining it , or were his eyes gazing back at Nicole 's like a lingering caress ? |
| 29 | The sea-blue eyes gazing back at her were coolly assessing , and it took considerable effort on her part not to look away . |
| 30 | She smiled in triumph , making her wide-set green eyes squeeze back into their thick black fringe of lashes . |