Example sentences of "back [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would it be possible for them also to prune this tree hard back so the light can be seen . |
| 2 | Er hundred and forty pound for the coach to Yorkshire which we got on the other side , a hundred and six pound back so the club er sponsored that , a hundred and thirty four pound , and thirty four pound . |
| 3 | When school started in September , Anne and Diana walked there and back together every day . |
| 4 | Do n't mess me up again , because I could n't cope with it , I could n't put myself back together a second time ! ’ |
| 5 | At the eastern end of the Ludwigstrasse the street opened out into a small square below the towering walls of the Herzogschloss , a massive fortification dating from the fifteenth century and set back only a few yards from the Danube . |
| 6 | Once there is enough wind to plane , though , the back position comes into its own , since with the weight back only a small amount of the board is in contact with the water thus enabling high speeds . |
| 7 | To pay for this , insurers load the front-end charges on policies , so that customers get back only a fraction of what should be due to them if they have to cash in ahead of time . |
| 8 | Colours and designs created by tiny scales , overlapping like tiles on a roof , come from pigments , or the effects of microscopic structures which split the light falling on them and reflect back only a part of it . |
| 9 | According to his letter to Puchberg , he had tried to organize a further series of subscription concerts to improve his finances , but when the list came back only the faithful Baron van Swieten 's name was on it . |
| 10 | Went in there and went and got dressed so Mary was up then so when I got back downstairs the er breakfast , my breakfast was on the table . |
| 11 | To pull back just a few metres on an Alpine climb is a dozen times harder than on the flat . |
| 12 | Our limited perception of time has difficulty in imagining events and cycles dating back just a hundred years , yet archaeologists have germinated and grown wheat from grains four thousand years old , discovered in the tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs . |
| 13 | Loose oxygenators can be removed altogether , keeping back just a few rooted cuttings for the following spring . |
| 14 | He came forward again , eyes narrowed , pushing his face close to Graham 's so that the younger man shrank back just a little . |
| 15 | Yeah , I 'm gon na go back just a little way |
| 16 | Keeping your weight over to that side , raise your back leg 2 ins ( 5cm ) off the floor and move it forwards and back just an inch or two . |
| 17 | Keeping your weight over to that side , raise the back leg 2ins ( 5cm ) and move it forwards and back just an inch or two . |
| 18 | The situation is hopeless and , to pay back just the interest , countries have to scrimp and save every penny ; that means no proper forest protection and leaving forests in the hands of the merchants , often unscrupulous and owned by foreign companies . |
| 19 | For the independent pusher , it can be frustrating when you wheel yourself around a likely ‘ circular ’ route , only to discover some steps have not been marked on the map so you have to turn round and come back exactly the same way . |
| 20 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 21 | I felt that if I looked back early the mud pool would blush and say ‘ pardon ’ . |
| 22 | Besides , Alf can only just about drag hisself to the King 's Arms and back once a day , and then e's finished . |
| 23 | The lord had to employ labourers to chop the growth back once every year ; the same men were to fill in large holes and ruts in the highway with stones and boulders removed from flanking fields . |
| 24 | I 've just chap , one of my chaps has just come back off a three days , confined spaces , responsible person course . |
| 25 | ‘ What do you mean back off a little ? ’ |
| 26 | Gets it across , controls with his right foot , strikes with his left and it cannons back off a defender and gets it away . |
| 27 | Koeman was involved everywhere and cracked in a 35-yard shot which cannoned back off the post after 48 minutes . |
| 28 | The ball came back off the post and Whelan touched it in . |
| 29 | If the ball is left short it is virtually impossible to save par as the approach shot will almost certainly spin back off the green , leaving the player with a chip shot which will be equally as difficult to keep on the green the other side . |
| 30 | Martha stepped back off the verandah , feeling a surge of fear conditioned by the beatings of earlier years . |