Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead he learned that life is not a choice between murdering your way to the throne or slopping back in a sty ; that there are swinish kings and regal hogs ; that the king may envy the pig ; and that the possibilities of the not-life will always change tormentingly to fit the particular embarrassments of the lived life . |
| 2 | Each year straw equivalent to 3.6 million tonnes of coal is wasted , usually burnt in the field or ploughed back into the ground . |
| 3 | Every culture , however imperfectly and blindly , either turned towards the light or fell back into the darkness . |
| 4 | He would linger on those delivery trips and stay for dinner or tea or come back via the Talbot , the pub across the road , although he was under age . |
| 5 | But what you 're doing here I think it is er , er an example of the partnership , a partnership that goes back for many years , certainly during World War Two and I think er it is still strong and er holds firm today the partnership between the United States and Great Britain . |
| 6 | They and the opposition are up against a tradition of oppression that goes back to Tamerlane . |
| 7 | Only 15 months later , the participants in that match , which , it must be said , was not full of passion , are now presumably heavily engaged in destroying each other simply because they come from two sides of a divide that dates back to the tragedies , miseries and horrors of the second world war , back to the first world war and into the deep recesses of history before that time . |
| 8 | And at the same time , and slightly in contradiction to that , I found it increasing erm , er , perception and indication of dissatisfaction with the way in which the joint er , collaborative structures were actually working , if I may say , especially at the top level in terms of the political erm erm , so I say to you colleagues , that you are required as er , by statute to , to have in place collaborative structures , er , under a statute that goes back to the nineteen seventies , and I should also say to you that up and down the country that authorities like your own are at this stage doing what you 're doing , and that is reviewing the effectiveness of the operation of those structures , and probably coming to much the same conclusions . |
| 9 | He comes pounding down the ladder , and grabs the wheel and stampedes back into the waves . |
| 10 | I will report to His Majesty and come back to him . " |
| 11 | They took one last look at the newly laid keel and walked back along East Street together , Harry and Ann arm in arm , but Sam and Martha holding hands , because they were still like lovebirds together and did n't mind the world knowing it . |
| 12 | We 're getting , if we could be this time next week , given feedback and come back with some response and maybe John , you can take whatever comes out of that on board in your . |
| 13 | Jordan went into his bedroom and came back with his gun . |
| 14 | She went into her bedroom and came back with it . |
| 15 | Turn left into Bleak Terrace and go back onto the Fell through the wicket gate to the village boundary wall . |
| 16 | The recurrent nerve leaves the hypocerebral ganglion as a median or paired lateral oesophageal nerve and passes back to the hinder region of the fore gut , where it ( or each branch ) terminates in a ventricular ganglion . |
| 17 | It was also given in-depth coverage on television and radio that evening , with News at Ten running it as the lead story in the first half of the programme and coming back to it again in the second . |
| 18 | She banished them from her mind and glanced back at Clarissa who was sleeping peacefully . |
| 19 | They returned to the warehouse and stood back as a boy carrying a sheet of glass under his arm came down the stairs . |
| 20 | I think you need to go and do something else for a little while I said cos if you keep looking over thinking you ca n't do it , have a break and go back to it afterwards you just get really despondent |
| 21 | So the bit was taken out of his mouth and put back in the proper place , and Wendy continued to calmly trot him around with the other horses ; and Huckleberry kept putting his tongue over the bit again , and again , and again . |
| 22 | Milton took a last bite of teacake and a last gulp of tea and lay back in his chair and closed his eyes . |
| 23 | I re I think we 'll go and I 'll think you just go for tea and come back in |
| 24 | I finish my tea and climb back into the Toyota . |
| 25 | Five mile ramble led by John Merrill starting at Meden Trail car park , Pleasley. 2–5.30pm then tea and bus back to car park . . |
| 26 | She turned in the doorway and looked back at him , smiling . |
| 27 | She replaced the instrument and turned back to Robert . |
| 28 | Like Angela she would not want a poor doctor , and sooner or later would tire of her play-acting and retire back to that world — he wondered why she had left it , and what she thought that she was doing here in the East End , so far from her family and friends . |
| 29 | He then made the sign of the cross , said a Requiem for the poor steward 's soul , re-locked the hut , returned the key to the priest and wandered back into Cheapside . |
| 30 | Delighted at the chance to see more of County Sligo , especially as the weather was now improving , I thanked the priest and settled back in my seat . |