Example sentences of "back [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be long enough to give you strength in the face of a direct frontal assault but short enough to allow you to spring back or thrust forwards without warning . |
| 2 | ‘ Hundreds [ of shareholders ] have for years maintained guarantees at banks ’ , continued the article , ‘ and thousands have helped to create clubs by taking shares without hope of seeing their money back or any return on it . ’ |
| 3 | I do n't look back or nothing . |
| 4 | He dare n't go back or they would see him . |
| 5 | When bad weather threatened an American Airlines flight from Chicago to New York the pilot , it emerges , offered his passengers the choice : shall we turn back or go on ? |
| 6 | I think they were so nervous to play anything that would imply for the space shot or against the space shot — whether the guys were going to come back or not . |
| 7 | Where Nonconformist preachers differed was in their isolation : they stood alone without a liturgy on which to fall back or a priestly vocation which made good preaching a desirable but not essential option . |
| 8 | He simply could not remember in the end whether Miss Harker had given it back or not . |
| 9 | Only occasionally did the bubble burst , and he flashed anger at someone who argued back or tried to speak out of turn . |
| 10 | So the golden apple which Hercules first brought back or gathered , from Hesperia must have been grain ; and the Gallic Hercules with links of this gold , that issue from his mouth , chains men by the ears : something which will later be discovered as a myth concerning the fields . |
| 11 | THE DENTAL DAM FIGHTS BACK or WOT ! |
| 12 | It 's at the top of Geal-Charn that you must make the decision to go back or carry on to Carn Dearg . |
| 13 | Respondents were also left a self-completion questionnaire and asked to fill it in and either give it to the interviewer when he or she called back or return it by post ; the response rate to this was 93 per cent . |
| 14 | Minor thefts , for example , may not be reported as the victims feel there is little chance of them getting their goods back or of the offender getting caught . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps some people need a psychological or emotional crutch before their faith will come back or to give them more confidence . |
| 16 | Long I have lingered by the banks of the Ness , looking on the town clinging to and rising above its banks ; often have I gone to the castle hill to trace the windings of the stream , which was ever smiling back or reflecting the sadder tones of the sky , and to gaze on the distant land of mountain and plain ; and I have also spent many hours in rapt admiration of the sylvan pictures that render the walk through the islands on the Ness a walk of walks : it yielded a joy as deep as that I received from the walks on Goat Island , within hearing and seeing of the rapid-flowing waters of Niagara . |
| 17 | The pendulum which seems to have swung very far in one direction will either swing back or over in a circle and the extreme position will not be maintained . |
| 18 | Instead of turning back or taking the upper channel , a long cul-de-sac ending at a floodgate , Dennis beached the punt on the rollers forming a portage over the weir . |
| 19 | Either they did not come back or they returned by another route . |
| 20 | This is the classic position , and with only the bat to be raised the batsman is in position to move back or forward while at the same time able to focus on the ball . |
| 21 | Who is more mobile , it asked , the car-driving ‘ Herr Müller ’ who travels 58km daily in getting to work and back or the walking-cycling-bus-using ‘ Herr Schultz ’ who travels a shorter distance but manages to reach more destinations ? |
| 22 | ‘ I like to watch life and I guard my ability to stand back or to move in very jealously . ’ |
| 23 | John Davies screamed at police : ‘ Get back or I will cut her , ’ when he grabbed hold of terrified telephonist Alma Rodham , 50 . |
| 24 | Most assets acquired from connected persons , or sold or leased back or acquired with the sole or main purpose of claiming the new allowance , will also be ineligible . |
| 25 | Any ACT that can not be used , carried back or surrendered , may be carried forward without time limit for use against tax liabilities ( again subject to the same basic rate restriction ) . |
| 26 | I suspect this is so that we ca n't talk back or properly assess their charges or claims . |
| 27 | In periods of slump , for example , they may be drawn out of the labour market more quickly than other groups ( particularly unskilled and semi-skilled older workers ) ; in periods of labour shortage , the justification for retiring and becoming a ‘ non-producing consumer ’ may be questioned as part of a campaign to call back or retain people in the labour force . |
| 28 | When I wake up I just pull it back or put it on top of my head in a top knot . |
| 29 | It takes two movements to operate the lace carriage , once to the right to transfer stitches then back OR once to the right to prepare and then back transferring stitches on the return to the left , leaving the main carriage clear to work two rows ; across , to place loops in empty needles and back to the right knitting all the stitches . |
| 30 | Doors , cupboards and hatch windows should be fully opened and fastened back or else closed . |