Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Other research suggested they might become concentrated , churned around in the waves and eventually deposited back along the beaches and banks of local estuaries . |
| 3 | Some may have regretted the excursion and eventually turned back for home . |
| 4 | He swung the binoculars towards the ranks of spectators on either side of the 18th fairway , and slowly traversed back to the tee . |
| 5 | Speeding up urban traffic could save 10 per cent of fuel , and so cut back on carbon dioxide . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He stayed in Moscow for two months before he returned to St. Petersburg and soon sailed back to Scotland . |
| 8 | As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job . |
| 9 | Some German agents must have stood out like sore thumbs ( One , codenamed ‘ Garbo ’ , could never figure out English pounds , shillings , and pence , and once reported back to Berlin from Glasgow that there were men there ‘ who would do anything for a litre of wine ’ ( p. 112 ) . ) |
| 10 | ‘ What do you find to do , out all day ? ’ asked my mother , who only ventured out with a specific purpose in mind and always got back at the time she had decided she would . |
| 11 | Examples might include sale and leaseback agreements , where an asset is sold and immediately leased back from the purchasers . |
| 12 | JOHN BECK took over as manager of Second Division Preston yesterday and immediately hit back at his critics . |
| 13 | The BBC 's proposed solution was that everything should be handled by the BBC and then licensed back to the publishers . |
| 14 | When the cat was successful it was rewarded with food and then placed back inside the box . |
| 15 | And then gone back to work next morning . |
| 16 | He stopped , glanced at his master and then bounded back to him . |
| 17 | The Glasgow Volunteers , disbanded after the Peace of Amiens in 1802 and then called back to the colours again , included the Fifth or Grocer 's Battalion , the Canal Volunteers , and the Royal Glasgow Volunteer Horse of 60 men and , presumably , 60 horses . |
| 18 | Town 's drugs are often made in Britain , flown to the Far East or some other convenient staging post and then brought back on the next night — to be sold more cheaply than if they had never left Britain . |
| 19 | And , yes , I saw the incident at Southampton , where Mark Nicholas was eventually given out to a disputed close catch and then brought back to the crease . |
| 20 | Crookes was thus very important in preparing the way for the ‘ discovery ’ of the electron by J. J. Thomson in 1897 , in an experiment in which cathode rays were deflected by a magnetic field , and then brought back to the zero point by an electric field . |
| 21 | Back in the present , enemies of the guerrillas ' 'new democracy' have their feet and heads hacked off and crudely sewn back on — the wrong way round . |
| 22 | He heard a pheasant call and almost called back from habit . |
| 23 | At the end she turned and almost trotted back to her stall , jumping quite freely over the gutter . |
| 24 | Lightweight inexpensive fabrics like cheesecloth and muslin can be shirred and hung between rods , wires or traverse poles attached below the ceiling and above the skirting or baseboards , and either caught back at doors and windows or fixed around them ( with rods or wires attached to the top of the frames ) . |
| 25 | Just as the classical and baroque triumphed in the design of state capitols and ultimately fed back into railway stations , so did Australia cling to forms which had never entirely been superseded as the official architectural language of imperialism . |
| 26 | For all his achievements and popularity , Jones was again refused a commission in the French navy and instead sent back to the United States with despatches . |
| 27 | She skipped in the stableyard and jumped up and down off orange boxes in the storeroom and occasionally thought back to her carefree days before Sylvester went mad on their behalf . |
| 28 | It is from Zakarpatská Ukrajina , the Czech Ukraine or sub-Carpathian Ruthenia , first annexed by Hungary and later taken by the Soviet Union and never given back at the end of the war in 1945 . |
| 29 | The new dyeing process , both for uncut cloth and finished garments , is sealed in a closed system where the finite quantity of water is constantly recycled and never released back into the environment . |
| 30 | He opened up a 24.8 seconds advantage over Jackson at the half distance refuelling halt and never looked back on a course which measured just over 190 miles in length . |