Sentences with back

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The photographers drew back to let us view the body.
I went back to bed. [+ to]
She has a pain in the small of her back.
She stabbed him in the back.
The rail company said it expected services to get slowly back to normal.
She handed the knife back.
She was carrying her little daughter on her back.
He was handcuffed with his hands behind his back.
They wrote back to me and they told me that I didn't have to do it. [+ to]
Can I come back to the question of policing once again? [+ to]
In addition to the uses shown below, back is also used in phrasal verbs such as 'date back' and 'fall back on'.
Short skirts are back.
Keep back from the edge of the platform. [+ from]
Her hair was tied back.
She lay back and stared at the ceiling.
Nick looked back over his shoulder and then stopped, frowning.
Meanwhile, back in London, Palace Pictures was collapsing. [+ in]
The story starts back in 1950, when I was five. [+ in]
I thought back to the time in 1975 when my son was desperately ill. [+ to]
Her son was lying peacefully on his back.
...a room at the back of the shop. [+ of]
He opened the back door.
There was a neatly folded pink sweater on the back of the chair. [+ of]
Send your answers on the back of a postcard. [+ of]
...the index at the back of the book. [+ of]
Dan informed her that he would be out back on the patio cleaning his shoes.
...two half-hour shows, which will be screened back to back.
We live in a ground floor flat which backs onto a busy street. [V + onto]
He backed his car out of the drive. [VERB noun preposition/adverb]
There is a new witness to back his claim that he is a victim of mistaken identity. [VERB noun]
Roland Nilsson last night backed Sheffield Wednesday to win the UEFA Cup. [VERB noun to-infinitive]
She was backed by acoustic guitar, bass and congas. [be VERB-ed + by]
The back of a carpet
The back of the stage
The back of a hill
To back a horse
A soloist backed by an orchestra
Mountains back the town
The house backs onto a river
A back lane
back issues of a magazine
back rent
back country
back current
To go back home
To look back on one's childhood
To hit someone back
The dam holds back the water
To keep something back
Put some back into the work
The back of the room, the back of his leg
The back of the hand; the back of a carpet, textile, etc.; the back of a knife
back country
A back copy of a newspaper, back pay
A back step
To hold back information
To pay someone back
To back into a room
To back into a championship
The house backs on a lake
To back a candidate; to back up a theory with facts.
To back a horse in the race.
To back a car.
To back a book.
A beach backed by hills.
A singer backed by piano and bass.
At the back door; back fence.
back settlements.
back files; back issues.
back pay.
back current.
The pendulum of the grandfather clock swung back and forth.
Back yonder, when I was a boy, things were different.
To step back.
To look back on one's youth; They met in Chicago back in 1976.
To go back to the old neighborhood.
To pay back a loan; to answer back.
To hold back the tears; to hold back salary.
To lean back; to lie back.
Could you please scratch my back? I hurt my back lifting those crates. He got his hand on her behind and caressed her firm, ample flesh. [ …] "You got some back on you, girl. "I still need to finish the back of your dress. Can you fix the back of this chair? Do thou but think / What 'tis to cram a maw or clothe a back / From such a filthy vice
He sat in the back of the room. Turn the book over and look at the back. The titles are printed on the backs of the books. Convenience and custom have familiarised us to the printed page being a little higher than the middle of the leaf, and to its having a little more margin at the fore edge than in the back. Tap it with the back of your knife. I hung the clothes on the back of the door. We'll meet out in the back of the library. The car was near the back of the train. The backs were lined up in an I formation.
The small boat raced over the backs of the waves.
The ship's back broke in the pounding surf.
The stope is kept full of broken ore, sufficient only being drawn to leave a working space between the floor of broken ore and the back of the stope.
Put some back into it!
Could I get a martini with a water back?
The train backed into the station; the horse refuses to back
I back you all the way; which horse are you backing in this race?
To back oxenThe mugger backed her into a corner and demanded her wallet.
To back books
To back a letter; to back a note or legal document
To back the oars
Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
I’d like to find a back issue of that magazine.
They took a back road.
back rent
back action
"U" in "rude" is a back vowel.
We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, [ …] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
Fear held him back.
If you hurt me, I'll hurt you back.

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