Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After reciting back to the girl her choice , Joy went back to the counter . |
| 2 | Once , 24 hours after getting back to the office , I fell ill — with symptoms very like scrub typhus , a tick-borne disease — felt rotten , lost two and a half stone in the next fortnight , could n't eat , had hallucinations . |
| 3 | After getting back into the accurate turn as before , apply a very small amount of opposite rudder to create a slightly slipping turn and try the stall again . |
| 4 | After coming back from the holiday regular outings to the pictures , ice-skating rink and other activities are planned , culminating in another holiday , this time in Northern Ireland , at the end of the summer , ’ Adree explained . |
| 5 | I asked Danny ( Knight ) to put down at the first chance after crossing back over the Channel , and he did ’ . |
| 6 | The start of a New Year is a time for looking back on the past 12 months and also a time when self-styled pundits such as myself are unwisely tempted to look into their crystal balls and come up with the predictions that by the end of the year they may well regret |
| 7 | But there are more flexible ways of easing back into the job market . |
| 8 | does it make any sense , like you could at least sort of fall back on the toilet or something . |
| 9 | She could n't resist the challenge of swimming back over the tide when the boys suggested it . |
| 10 | I did n't consider the possibility of turning back to the runway behind me , but at the time I thought that a very low-level circuit to the left would bring me round for a landing on an adjacent runway . |
| 11 | He could n't stand the idea of going back to the section-house , so he had taken a series of private lodgings . |
| 12 | One important thing about a ‘ bottlenecked ’ life cycle is that it makes possible the equivalent of going back to the drawing board . |
| 13 | They were perfectly capable of going back to the perch without my help . |
| 14 | Especially if you do n't realize that till you 've got , till you 've got home and you realize you 've got to go through all the hassle of going back to the shop to complain . |
| 15 | But they remained Germans , always dreaming of going back to the Fatherland one day . ’ |
| 16 | Well , certainly people are satisfied with where we 've got to and want to draw a line underneath it and move on from there , and I think the prospect of going back to the constitution er issues , and they m once again being a key focus , I do n't think anyone in the Party , or outside the Party , sees the Labour Party wanting to devote itself to that at this time . |
| 17 | at the Gateshead National Garden Festival from 1989 to 1990 that was alright , then last September 1990 and with the end of the festival in site I had a dread of going back on the dole as I already spent seven years on the dole previously through no-fault of my own . |
| 18 | Olla was bargaining with nightmarish persistence for a carpet , and Mart was considering nipping back to the boat to see if anyone could lend him five hundred quid so he could buy a really wicked sword . |
| 19 | Once we agreed on the idea of pulling back on the emotion and letting the situation she was in speak for itself , the part took off . |
| 20 | Cook has every intention of getting back into the South African team next season although he will not find it easy following the success of Andrew Hudson at the World Cup . |
| 21 | ‘ I was told I had to play well week-in , week-out in the League to further my chances of getting back into the international side and it has been good to play in a successful side at Cardiff . ’ |
| 22 | Afterwards you stand no hope of getting back into the City . |
| 23 | Perhaps they feel it is a way of getting back at the system that keeps them in the poverty gap . |
| 24 | There was the usual faff of getting back to the aircraft to get the flying bag , complicated by the imminent arrival of VIPs for the World Fishing Convention . |
| 25 | For a moment I toyed with the idea of getting back to the ship , lifting off and going a comfortingly long way away . |
| 26 | Swail 's hopes of getting back in the match virtually disappeared when he lost the first frame of the final session . |
| 27 | means of reporting back to the full governing body ; and |
| 28 | The method of reporting back to the client should be specified in the terms of engagement letter . |
| 29 | When a suitable site for a new hive is found the bees have to learn its location and get rid of their earlier learned behaviour of flying back to the old hive . |
| 30 | Despite harking back to the New Zealand way of doing things now and again , McIntosh is happily settled in Wales . |