Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Branfoot said : ‘ Matt has not come back with an answer but we are still in the early stages of negotiation . ’ |
| 2 | Kernaghan has not looked back since then . |
| 3 | Both roles have involved handing out criticism , a task he has not held back from especially in this , the last year before he retires . |
| 4 | He has n't drifted back to his own place yet , eh ? |
| 5 | See , Sue has n't come back to me , the science department has n't come to me so I 'm not , I may leave that and say , and do something like that next year in a module or wait until I 've finished again I do n't mind , that 's still something in my mind which I would like to do but because talking to the form tutor 's , what I had written down as a fait a complet erm they 're not too keen so therefore I opened up and say you know , which particular things they were interested in the banking one they are very interested in the environment one , yes , within the school tidy upping area that they would like to do but I 've got ta be able to , and I do n't when planting season is or if I wan na put , be able to put flowers in etcetera , you see what I mean ? |
| 6 | John has n't come back to us . |
| 7 | He agreed not to go back to the house and got a friend to collect some of his belongings . |
| 8 | very often find knowing that they 've left voluntarily to have babies and have decided not to go back to the job although the job 's been kept open for them . |
| 9 | She decided not to go back to the bank , because they would have had to create a special job for her . |
| 10 | An agitated old lady addressed Ramsey severely and asked why he did not go back to his own country and do good there instead of stirring up trouble in the United States . |
| 11 | They did not go back to ‘ living together ’ even in the purely conceptual sense of many academic couples they knew , separated by their jobs . |
| 12 | And again , if he wanted to alter a painting later after its completion , if he did not go back to the first idea and atmosphere of conception , he could never make the alteration a success . |
| 13 | For many weeks Kee did not go back to the graveyard . |
| 14 | But she did not go back to the kitchen . |
| 15 | So the budget fixed for the current year was £20 million and the £7 million underspent in the first two years of the scheme did not go back to the Treasury — it was not lost to computerisation — but was committed to the further development of GP computerisation . |
| 16 | Full of wine , afterwards , Paul did not go back with Chase to the lodging . |
| 17 | Carolyn did not move back to her mother 's , as Bryony ( who perhaps would never stop being jealous ; Clare 's mistakes were as often with women as men ) had hoped , and as Clare herself had half expected . |
| 18 | The videos focused on individuals and their themes and this did not feed back into departmental meetings and certainly not into a whole-school context . |
| 19 | As usual , Derek Jefferson did not hold back in his praise of his own products . |
| 20 | A kiss where she raised her lips to his , and he did not hold back from moving his head down to hers , and , as her heart started to sing , so her arms went up and around him . |
| 21 | Needless to say , he did not get back to her . |
| 22 | In August 1918 my father was recalled to London to report to the Foreign Office and he did not get back until mid-December . |
| 23 | It did not look back at Alice , but said , ‘ One side will make you taller , and the other side will make you shorter . ’ |
| 24 | She did not look back at Ursula or down into the valley , but trained her eyes forward , fixing them on the interior of the Mercedes and the dark shape of its occupant as , with every step , clarity threatened to break upon her vision . |
| 25 | McFarlane did not argue back to any degree . |
| 26 | And , as so often , I did not come back to bed . |
| 27 | ‘ I did not come back to international rugby just to be the grandad of the B side . |
| 28 | The girls did not come back from Dublin after their lunch . |
| 29 | He did not come back until the evening , and then he was drunk . |
| 30 | Nenna 's children neither showed any interest in where she had been nor in why she did not come back until next morning . |