Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The swimming section was more or less brought back to mind to me the other day when they showed the old Stoke bathing place . |
| 2 | Guilt , or constantly thinking back to past errors , only has any value if you are able to learn from it and to make a firm decision to avoid those errors in the future . |
| 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 | I can wear it up or down , teased and back-combed out or just brushed back with a headband . |
| 5 | He prepared to work for his father in the building trade , or even go back to college . |
| 6 | I did n't know whether to go back and try for something in the West End again , or television , films — or even go back into fringe theatre . |
| 7 | This drama is often now confused with , or even rendered back to , types of religious ritual in which some of its elements indeed originated . |
| 8 | He found that most of them relied for information on their nearest educated contacts , the priests and the Nepmen , or else fell back on rumour , which still loomed large in their news lives . |
| 9 | They try to reach the place they are heading for or else turn back to the shore . |
| 10 | It still did n't hit me that within hours we would have a baby : I vaguely felt I was immersed in some surreal soap-dream that constantly receded back into itself . |
| 11 | Richard Artschwager 's references are altogether more prosaic , more often than not pointing back to basic architectural elements or pieces of furniture . |
| 12 | Truth was , I more than once looked back over my shoulder to see if anything was following me . |
| 13 | This allows us to do more than simply check back on the forecasters ' performance on individual countries ; it enables us to assess which forecaster has the best record across all the big economies . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We talked back and forth and eventually went back to the old Sun studio and did a few tracks down there . |
| 16 | He could not get work and eventually went back to being an electrician in a colliery . |
| 17 | Other research suggested they might become concentrated , churned around in the waves and eventually deposited back along the beaches and banks of local estuaries . |
| 18 | Some may have regretted the excursion and eventually turned back for home . |
| 19 | They both cried out as they reached and went beyond that white-hot explosion , holding tight as they crested the wave and slowly drifted back to reality . |
| 20 | Julius put down her bags and slowly walked back towards her . |
| 21 | And since there did n't seem anything she could do , and there was n't anything else she dared to say , she turned round and slowly trudged back to the house . |
| 22 | He swung the binoculars towards the ranks of spectators on either side of the 18th fairway , and slowly traversed back to the tee . |
| 23 | Speeding up urban traffic could save 10 per cent of fuel , and so cut back on carbon dioxide . |
| 24 | He carried on flying , looking for a place to land and so flew back to the wireless station and decided to land in a field next to it . |
| 25 | I put the misses on one side and perhaps come back to them weeks , or a year later , and battle it out . |
| 26 | The presbyterians also had misgivings , and only came back into the system in 1838 when they were practically guaranteed control of their own schools within it . |
| 27 | A common factor in the strategic planning of information services in many outside organisations is that such plans derive from , and constantly refer back to , the organisation 's business or scientific objectives . |
| 28 | At one point , they saw the sea receding from the near-by beaches ; sucked away and apparently forced back by the earthquakes , so that quantities of sea creatures were left stranded . |
| 29 | However , looking back , and especially looking back after all the interlacements of Volumes Two and Three , one might well think that besides an image of life ‘ the Road ’ has crept up to being an image of Providence . |
| 30 | Celebrate your success , thank your helpers — and gently come back to the room . |