Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] back [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is n't good enough to fall back on a somewhat arbitrary list of subjects without specific aims . |
| 2 | ‘ I think we 'd better head back to a city , you know . |
| 3 | You 've got , again , a much more stable population , there are n't nearly so many teachers , young women teachers who leave the system to get married and then perhaps do n't go back at all , or only go back on a part-time basis . |
| 4 | After all , I had only come back for a day or two to buy some good German clothes . |
| 5 | United Airlines and American Airlines I 've been told are n't really all that good to fly with , mate of ours went up to the airport to pick his parents up , they just got back from a holiday in and er they flew and a , on a seven hour journey , where ever it was they come from , they did n't have any food , no food , nothing , what they done is they , they , they 'd taken a container off , but they had n't put a new one on . |
| 6 | We could just fall back on a bit of sweets and chocolate or something in the end but I 'd like to get some |
| 7 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 8 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 9 | A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ . |
| 10 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 11 | The first- and second-person pronouns are typical examples in that they do not refer back to a nominal expression in the text but to the speaker and hearer ( or writer and reader ) respectively . |
| 12 | They all just came back for a regular routine follow up , just a little bit late . |
| 13 | Just finally looking back over a career that spans now five decades , is there anything you 'd have done differently over the years ? |
| 14 | You 're not going back for a month ? |
| 15 | I was not going back into a situation where I only had myself to talk to . |
| 16 | The group 's clarinettist Tracy Redfern and flautist Philippa Bradford , Nicola 's older sister , have just got back from a visit to Germany with Kirklees junior wind band . |
| 17 | I can wear it up or down , teased and back-combed out or just brushed back with a headband . |
| 18 | But er before I came out I switched it on cos I 'm not coming back to a cold house . |
| 19 | It 's all right , sweetie , I 'm not coming back with a bone through my nose , but I might come back with a bit less of a bone in my head . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not coming back for a while . |
| 21 | But Mr Pillsbury was not asked back for a second interview . |
| 22 | I read about 3.54 , 4.3 and 3.9 , what do they mean , which is best and will it solve the problem or should I just change back to a standard cam ? |
| 23 | The young woman just stared back like a frightened rabbit . |
| 24 | She 'd just come back from a visit home to Germany and was still sad . |
| 25 | Mr Rochester is always very popular with the ladies at these parties , so he may not come back for a week or so . ’ |
| 26 | It can not climb back from a vertical drop since it lacks the body diameter of the rabbit . |
| 27 | Labov reports ( personal communication ) that in his early work he once played back to a woman a tape-recording of her own casual speech to prove to her that her image of her accent was inaccurate . |
| 28 | Soon the greater numbers of the Chaos force began to tell , and Magnus 's army was gradually pushed back into a defensive circle . |
| 29 | ‘ I took every precaution possible to ensure he did n't come into contact with the virus but he still came back with a very dirty nose and coughed very badly . ’ |
| 30 | The long hair she 'd admired was still drawn back in a pony-tail . |