Example sentences of "[verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm awake , you cunt , ’ a deep Scots voice thundered back . |
| 2 | The helmsboy then engaged full ahead , performed two pirouettes , and thundered back the way he had come in a cloud of blue exhaust smoke and coloured speech . |
| 3 | With only three minutes remaining Paul Mooney 's corner produced a powerful header from Paul Curran which thundered back off the Bohemians ' woodwork . |
| 4 | Thankfully Leeds thundered back , Deano had one disallowed , then one that was allowed . |
| 5 | She wore a pale pink dress that swirled around slender legs and her hair was caught back with a matching headband . |
| 6 | Inexpensive cottons can be hung from rods or poles and left to hang free at the bottom , although they should be caught back over doors and windows with tie-backs . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ If you 're caught back there , what do you say ? ’ |
| 9 | As they parked and headed for the open front door , a smiling woman in a dusky pink two-piece and with her silver hair caught back in a chignon appeared to welcome them . |
| 10 | She saw him at last , but she did n't signal back , she clutched her bag and froze , staring , and the man beside her turned round . |
| 11 | it 'll probably twang back in again |
| 12 | At a quarter to twelve he phoned back . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Then she phoned back about ten minutes later and she said wondered if we could come at eleven o'clock in the morning . |
| 15 | Well they phoned back and they said , can you tell your husband to take his car to National Tyres er , that insurance has sent him , and could they give him an invoice for the insurance company . |
| 16 | WRONG a sagging bed or a hard bed can aggravate back pain . |
| 17 | The arrival of the T9000 Transputer threatened to be an anti-climax , given that the device had been previewed back in 1991 ( CI No 1,653 ) . |
| 18 | Longing now to jump back on board , Mungo watched as the mighty engine woke from its doze and heaved itself back to wakefulness with huge , slow piston strokes . |
| 19 | Unfortunately for chronology , these pursuits were in some cases contemporary with each other , which means that the author has to jump back and forth between different epochs of Einstein 's life . |
| 20 | He tripped over a fallen body and this gave Balliol sufficient time to jump back and slam the door shut behind him . |
| 21 | If this is failed , he is too slow to jump back and one arm is simply amputated ( roll D6 : 1–3 left ; 4–6 right , or you can be charitable and rule that the shield arm rather than the weapon arm is affected ) . |
| 22 | As it was passing Rostov 's position , a jagged blue flash bridged the gap to the platform , and he controlled the impulse to jump back . |
| 23 | The 9mm slug exploded one of the Orion 's headlights , smashing the housing and causing Farrell to jump back and seek cover behind the vehicle . |
| 24 | The green man was flashing and we were crossing it and it just li I had to jump back onto the pavement ! |
| 25 | It 's really odd I do n't understand Si at all I decided , to jump back to that |
| 26 | Varieties can develop behavioural ‘ isolating mechanisms ’ , such as differences in courtship , which prevent interbreeding even when it is genetically possible — but a brief period of physical isolation is needed to allow the populations to develop the differences that will prevent them blending back together again if they come into contact . |
| 27 | China refused to accept back 71 people who entered Hong Kong illegally and accused the colony of reneging on a 1982 agreement on immigration policy . |
| 28 | On Sunday China refused to accept back from Hong Kong a group of 71 Chinese illegal immigrants , saying it was in retaliation for allowing Mr Yang , a pro-democracy activist , to leave for asylum in the US . |
| 29 | China retaliated by refusing to accept back illegal immigrants into Hong Kong . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , efforts were made to persuade Israel to accept back at least some of the refugees . |