Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] back [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , Jesus has come back again upon his hands , and he Pilate is faced with this tremendous decision . |
| 2 | Our other major domestic market , the distilling industry has come back strongly from the low levels of production of the early 1980s and appears full of optimism , if the huge rise in the share prices of quoted distilling companies is a fair yardstick . |
| 3 | ‘ Years ago we threw the old didacticism ( dowdy morality ) out of the window ; it has come back in at the door wearing modern dress ( smart values ) and we do not even recognize it ’ ( p. 159 ) . |
| 4 | SIR Colin Cowdrey has rushed back early from Asia to take personal control of the Pakistan ball-tampering saga . |
| 5 | " She has gone back there to her family . |
| 6 | I phone Andy and confirm it 's still all right to visit , then I ring Eddie and get the next three days off , tell the cops — they 're based at Fettes , though the DI has gone back down to London , and no they 're still not giving me back my new portable yet — and ( after I 've cleaned the car up a bit ) head out of the city and across the grey bridge in a day of squally , buffeting rain that has the bridge 's 40-limit signs on , high-sided vehicles banned and the 205 dancing its Dunlops sideways as the gusts hit . |
| 7 | ’ cheery voice and shrill whistle will be sadly missed in Malt Dispatch by all the drivers he has guided back on to the doings ! |
| 8 | We all used to bite our lips and nod wisely at these theological conundrums , holding our breath until he 'd gone back upstairs before dissolving into laughter . |
| 9 | Comrades led 2–1 until the 79th minute , their two goals coming in the first half from David Eddis against one from a Dean Gordon own goal but United hit back late in the game . |
| 10 | From the start , as in Crime and Punishment , Dostoevsky is projecting a theoretical murderer , the difference being that Raskolnikov was an ex-student , only potentially an eternal student , because in the event he got pulled back out of theory into living life . |
| 11 | Accepting this , some members of the British Government seem to have fallen back on to the second misconception . |
| 12 | Industrial production , which measures manufacturing output and energy production , is tipped to have fallen back sharply in March — the latest figure available — after a sharp drop in oil and gas production . |
| 13 | Perhaps the train in Aunt Louise 's mind had jumped back on to the rail for a while because it was then , in quite a conversational voice , that she began to speak of her daughter . |
| 14 | Cos it 's sad in my opinion that going back to where we were several months ago because we set out out to attracting higher quality people paying them more money and we 've come back again to basically seeing the people who we saw in the first instance |
| 15 | Antoinette had collapsed back on to her pillows . |
| 16 | I stared , open-mouthed , hardly even noticing that the Emissary 's hand had crept back on to my leg . |
| 17 | By last year they had crept back only to $113 billion , and that mostly thanks to some hefty refinancing of old high-coupon issues from the early 1980s to take advantage of lower interest rates . |
| 18 | You 've crept back unbeknown to me . |
| 19 | People had moved back down from their temporary dwellings on Jimale and the village was once again alive with activity . |
| 20 | Next morning I was a new woman , quite revitalised and waiting contritely for JTR who I had summoned back up from Edinburgh to get on with the Lewis Ramble . |
| 21 | Many 's the night I 've walked back late from town and stopped off in the New Earswick hedgerows to supply them some used beer … |
| 22 | Well we were led to believe that the concessions given to company cars would go , or would go in part in the White Paper , and we were led to believe that they would er make a decision that would say that the gas-guzzling , the higher expenditure cars would be penalized in terms of vehicle excise licence , road tax , compared to the small ones , and yet they 've gone back even from that . |
| 23 | But they 've gone back now to sitting altogether . |
| 24 | The Muslim 's bird had gone back on to the offensive , swooping down with its spurs and ripping a great gash along its enemy 's cheek . |
| 25 | He would have liked to telephone Marshal Guarnaccia who had gone back down to Florence but he did n't want to block the line , and in any case the Marshal had said something about going to the prison . |
| 26 | She had made him his favourite bottom pie and onions for supper that evening when he came in from the fishing , and he had gone back down to Mother Russell 's after , for a few ales . |
| 27 | She had gone back home in April 1988 , played a leading role in the National League for Democracy ( NLD ) , and , although under house arrest since July 1989 , had become the leading symbol of opposition to the military government of Myanma ( Burma ) . |
| 28 | Everyone else had gone back out into the cold night air , except her three companions and the proprietor . |
| 29 | Across the road to the butcher 's where they looked in the window to see back at the reflection of Hogan 's Outfitters and realise that Sean Walsh had gone back inside to the empire that would one day be his . |
| 30 | She knew she was being ridiculous , but so much had happened back there in that elegant house , so many unexplained emotions had swung through her mind in such a short space of time , and she felt so wound up , so confused by it all . |