Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Aug. 8 the British hostage John McCarthy was released in Beirut ; he was swiftly transported to the Syrian capital , Damascus , and thence flown back to the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | I am speaking now of its Belgrade side , of the old men in the Academy who wished to complete Serb history because it seemed to them that it had not been properly completed back in 1918 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Captain Lawton and his men seem to have had a fairly trouble-free time of it , because all 15 of them were duly discharged back in London after the seven-month voyage . |
| 5 | The mitre template has since come back onto the market , but at prices like £18-£20 and considering the relatively small amount of work in which it is employed , some readers will no doubt feel that they could spend that money more profitably , so will want to make their own . |
| 6 | He 'd be lucky if he was merely broken back into the Scouts for ten or twenty years . |
| 7 | Feeling the fragile shell of the golden ball — more delicate , even , than an egg — he was suddenly plunged back into his dream . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'd better come back in the house and dry your shoes and socks , ’ said Betty . |
| 9 | How clearly it had all come back to her — even the piping treble of her own childish voice . |
| 10 | Lucker has obviously come back for me once , as there is a fresh note on the bed . |
| 11 | She said nothing , but only arched back against the soft leather , lost in the tantalising , agonising pleasure of his hands — a pleasure that lit a fire deep inside her , but did nothing to quench it . |
| 12 | And er he was back there ten days ago for some or other to see another customer and when he came , only got back into the country on Monday or Tuesday |
| 13 | Usually , what with shooting and swimming with the others and riding up at Biddy 's , he had only got back to the garden shed in time to flake out until morning . |
| 14 | ‘ They have had their ins and outs and have all got back into the side , ’ he says . |
| 15 | I did , for the first time in 1979 , when we spent a family fishing holiday in the Hebrides ; and we have been returning regularly ever since , constantly drawn back by the magic spell the Outer Hebrides cast over all who set foot upon her romantic shores . |
| 16 | You may be written off as a malingerer or a neurotic or , perhaps even worse , as someone who must be gently humoured back to health . |
| 17 | They cut a swathe through the massed black-clad warriors , and then turning swiftly trampled back over their disorganized ranks . |
| 18 | ‘ He is so laid back about it all . |
| 19 | The swimming section was more or less brought back to mind to me the other day when they showed the old Stoke bathing place . |
| 20 | They seemed , Spruce thought , to be extremely laid back about the whole affair . |
| 21 | About half of them loosen up enough to allow the foreskin to be gently pulled back by the time the boy is a year old . |
| 22 | Kevin O'Neil suddenly arrived back at Ballytreabhair — ‘ for a wee holiday ’ he explained to his mother . |
| 23 | Several papers report on Goldie the goldfish which was apparently brought back from the dead when its owner gave it the kiss of life and poured whisky down its throat . |
| 24 | The air was thick with smoke and he was not offered dinner afterwards , merely driven back to the organizer 's home many miles away . |
| 25 | When Leo made some small movement , she was suddenly brought back to the present and became mortifyingly aware that she had just emptied her heart to a virtual stranger . |
| 26 | Fintan Cahill only arrived back in the country yesterday from Florida , scarcely the ideal championship preparation . |
| 27 | Thomson 's free kick Pearce gets it clear and then won back by Hill but has only gone back to the Forest skipper . |
| 28 | He 's only gone back for |
| 29 | The hospitaller suddenly stepped back in panic as the bear sprang into life , towering above him , its great paws clawing the air . |
| 30 | Er then he made the I 'd better cut back to the business card because you jumped into the statement of purpose erm you assum er there was an assumed er was okay erm I put superb and I ca n't remember what that actually was there . |