Example sentences of "then [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed agitated , restlessly pacing about , looking out into the crowds , then drawing back into the shelter of the arcade . |
| 2 | Once the invariant set is attracting , there is the possibility that the unstable manifold of the origin , which first strikes the return plane at R or L and which then wanders chaotically around the strange attractor forever , may eventually strike AD and then tend back towards the origin . |
| 3 | There is the metal-ring type muzzle , which is screwed into place via a pin passed across the inside of a ferret 's mouth behind its big teeth and then threaded back into the ring . |
| 4 | To disappear without so much as a phone call or a postcard for three years and then breeze back down the path from the town and across the bridge-rubber handlebars just clearing the sides and no more — carrying somebody else 's baby or babies and expecting to be housed , fed , nursed and delivered by my father was a little presumptuous . |
| 5 | Sir Charles and Lady Dobson lived on Pacific Drive , a road that wound its way through the canyons , then doubled back towards the ocean to link , eventually , with the South Coast Expressway . |
| 6 | When the cat was successful it was rewarded with food and then placed back inside the box . |
| 7 | another , is normally then referred back within the T B B and also with the year , the middle of the July committee every year we report on , schedule and minor improvement propose for the accounted year and the following year when members can see each individual scheme which is under preparation and is imminent in their lovely er their order of construction . |
| 8 | Everyone then processed back to the Salle des fêtes , where coffee was served ; the Emperor left shortly afterwards to go to his study , where he could smoke his cigarette ; the male guests who shared his habit were allowed to retire to the smoking room , while the Empress remained behind with the ladies . |
| 9 | The hemiplegic leg is then lifted back to the floor , the trouser leg is pulled a little further up the thigh , and anchored in place by the patient crossing his unaffected leg over it . |
| 10 | These worms have a similar food-gathering strategy to the more familiar filter-feeding tubeworms , but instead of the feathery heads of fanworms have long , sticky tentacles which they wave in the current or drag over the substrate in search of food particles which are then carried back to the mouth as the tentacles are drawn in . |
| 11 | His scream echoed madly inside the tunnel as he fell was slammed against the brickwork then bounced back against the speeding train , his body pulped by the impact . |
| 12 | Dulé was to slip into the sea , then , binding the container of burning pitch to his head with a deep cushioning of reeds in between to prevent him getting burned , he would swim to the ship , gouge a hole in the hull with his knife and , taking dry tinder from a companion swimming alongside him , light spills from the fire and pass them through the walls of the ship , then slip back under the cover of the mangroves and lie in wait for the panic . |
| 13 | I get Des to untie his hands and then slip back inside the car . |
| 14 | checked with his radio , he goes alright then phoned back to the police station on his radio , he said it 's not stolen the owner 's now here he said , can you please get it moved ? |
| 15 | On longer courses participants may be asked to talk to one of their own students and then report back to the group on his/her pattern of language use . |
| 16 | If you split a fortnight between the Algarve and exploration , and are flying back from Faro , then you could make the Lisbon area your limit , staying in the city or in Cascais , the breezy little port along the coast , heading out to ravishing Sintra , the royal summer retreat which is 15 miles north , then driving back via the walled Moorish town of Évora . |
| 17 | A high-pass filter was used to isolate the local ( high-frequency ) variation which was then added back to the image so that the local component was effectively doubled , thus amplifying or exaggerating its importance . |
| 18 | Erm so we then moved back towards the doorway erm and then P C requested the persons in the bed to tell him where the light switch was , which a male voice told him the approximate area where the light switch was . |
| 19 | He waved to show he was all right , then swam back to the floating machine , still laughing . |
| 20 | From here the path follows the river bank downstream and then heads back into the forest and away from the river before crossing a burn . |
| 21 | This is always agreed to and the Bill is then reported back to the House . |
| 22 | Charsky poured himself a glass of apple juice , then wandered back to the bedroom to finish dressing . |
| 23 | They are cooled by water taken from the river Yenisey , which is then discharged back into the river , in contravention of recently-passed environmental legislation . |
| 24 | He stared down at the Hoflin farm , then clumped back to the car . |
| 25 | And then came back over the bridge ? |
| 26 | And Abbey Fields , went round , we went round Abbey Fields and then came back onto the Clacton Road higher up , Colchester was n't the same , they 've done away with a lot of the high walls they had round |
| 27 | ‘ I read Middle Eastern Languages , and spent a year in Turkey after Oxford , then came back to the Museum . |
| 28 | He rose from his chair , walked to the window , looked out , then came back to the table . |
| 29 | Finch finished the movement and then came back to the other room , thinking of how much time he had spent with Henry and Betty over the years . |
| 30 | I had a few words with him , then came back to the shop . ’ |