Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] back on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canon Wright said : ‘ I believe that to go back on the progress that was made in the convention would be a retrograde step , for what is going to replace it ? ’ |
| 2 | I hope that this gets back on the road because clearly people are starting to put things in the proper places for recycling . |
| 3 | And that , in turn , is likely to feed back on the Government in the form of pressures from the most irresistible of all Tory constituencies , the City . |
| 4 | On present form , future generations are likely to look back on the 1992 election — with its emphasis on marginal tax rates — as at best rather quaint , or at worst a tragic irrelevance . |
| 5 | I could n't imagine what she expected to tell them if they all came back on the same day . |
| 6 | Nigger told him he was due to start back on the tugs on the following Monday . |
| 7 | And … a Fish called Zander : Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the water … here comes Jaws ' little brother . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'll be able to go back on the streets , ’ she said . |
| 9 | They must have been Steen coming back on the Saturday . |
| 10 | At first it was pleasant to lie back on the straw mattress and relax . |
| 11 | It 's a fairly low risk erm threat at the moment , air strikes are cheap er they 're not particularly dangerous whether they 're effective or not is another matter , er and there 's no immediate come back on the domestic scene because no one is expecting any one state to be the saviour in that particular situation . |
| 12 | The former British champion from Sunderland took the first step back on the road to championship level by stopping Clarkson with 65 seconds gone of the fifth round . |
| 13 | However , despite an apparent dictum to the contrary , the Torquay Hotel principle does not , it is submitted , extend to imposing liability in a case where A has , without any unlawful act , done no more than persuade B to exercise an option open to him under his contract with C , for example , to terminate it by proper notice , for so to hold would be to draw an indefensible distinction between existing , but terminable , relationships and those which are merely prospective , and render it necessary to fall back on the defence of justification in order , for example , lawfully to persuade an employee to change his employment for higher pay . |
| 14 | Work again over same two stitches and put original two stitches back on the needles ; miss eight stitches ; repeat from * to end . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm sure they will be only too intent to get back on the rails , ’ he observed . |
| 16 | But it 's nice to get back on the right tracks and now we have to keep it up against Stockport on Tuesday . |
| 17 | But if that comes back on the sixteenth , is that , is that what you 're saying , yeah ? |
| 18 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |