Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc . |
| 2 | Consequently increased emphasis needs to be placed upon the role of assessment , rehabilitation and transfer rather than discharge back into the community . |
| 3 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
| 4 | One of those kittenish creatures he remembered from the films of his childhood in the Fifties , clad in waist-high , baby-doll nightdresses , women who seemed to enjoy nothing more than lying back among the yellow nylon sheets and allowing themselves to be strangled . |
| 5 | Like the crooks pursued by the hero in Calling Bulldog Drummond ( 1951 ) , for whom ‘ life in peacetime seemed unbearably flat ’ , or the ex-officers who take over their old ship for smuggling runs across the Channel in the Ship that Died of Shame ( 1955 ) , or The League of Gentlemen ( 1960 ) , for whom robbing a bank promises their ‘ finest hour ’ , many filmmakers seemed to feel that there was nothing to do , now the war was over and the hopes of peace had faded , than go back to the site of old glories . |
| 6 | I 'd rather die than go back out the way I was . |
| 7 | Perhaps it is better , rather than roaming back into the recesses of geological time to consider the sudden and simultaneous extinctions that happened in Our geological yesterday . |
| 8 | If the material was supplied almost entirely by longshore drift , the profile outside the bar should be continuous with that inside the bar ( Fig. 8.19A ) : if the bar was formed by erosion of the sea floor , the profile outside the bar , if projected back towards the land , should not reach seal level at the coast but some way inland ( Fig. 8.19B ) . |
| 9 | Senior ministers and officials are urgently considering cutting back on the number of nuclear warheads carried by Britain 's powerful submarines . |
| 10 | erm And we 've already lost planes in the erm war so far , and we have only a limited number there , while going back to the last world war |
| 11 | The deployment of a relatively big budget and the use of a really big screen ( Cinerama in major cities , Super Panavision 70 where projection facilities were available ) , together with a show of ‘ serious ’ ideas comparable to printed sci-fi , raised the status of the whole genre , and it has never since sunk back to the level of , say , stalk-and-slash movies in critical regard . |
| 12 | It 's less tiring because otherwise you 've got to come in during the afternoon , then you have to decide whether to go back to the hotel or stay at the show . |
| 13 | Ian Woosnam is debating whether to go back to the drawing board and change his putting style for today 's Honda Open in Hamburg . |
| 14 | Beyond the glass there was a sporadically placed ring of guards and dogs who seemed uncertain as to whether to stare back at the distorted press of faces at the glass panes , or whether to watch instead the spiral column of smoke and the flames that played at its heels . |
| 15 | An unopened pod taken from the tree will keep for at least three weeks , and when opened back at the nursery it is usual to obtain 100 per cent germination of the seed . |
| 16 | If you use an equaliser during your video editing sessions , carefully check the effect of each adjustment as you go , by monitoring the sound over a loudspeaker ( headphones may not give a true impression of how the tone corrections will sound when played back in the normal way ) . |
| 17 | The words sounded hollow when played back in the emptiness of the flat , like an extract from a vacuous , romantic novel . |
| 18 | The company claimed that under the then rules this was only taxable ( the interest and dividends ) when brought back to the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | Their senior branch of railway promoters and philanthropists produced the first Quaker MP Joseph Pease as well as marrying back into the Gurneys . |
| 20 | So , that very simple view of the mind fits with this an idea of anxiety as forced back into the unconscious and then changing , sorry , as , as libido being forced back into the unconscious and then changing into anxiety . |