Example sentences of "back [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had had to bring her back through one of the worst storms on the North Atlantic . |
| 2 | We know very precisely the age at the top of the coral when it was uplifted and died and what we 've done is counted these bands back through hundreds of years , back to the time when the coral first started growing and that was in the year fifteen eighty three . |
| 3 | It is a church whose authority lies in its age and its preservation of a form of worship which can be traced back through two millennia . |
| 4 | TRAVEL BACK THROUGH 1900 YEARS OF HISTORY |
| 5 | I join the queue that stretches back through three carriages , in pursuit of a warm can of Travellers ' Fare lager — the only substance known to man that leaves the body in exactly the same state as it entered . |
| 6 | In that connection , incidentally , Shelford shares the view that the Lions should take Leicester 's Neil Back as one of their openside wing forwards . |
| 7 | The Arab states , with the exception of Lebanon and possibly Egypt , might well have resettled the bulk of the refugees , had Israel accepted the principle of the right of return by receiving back about one-quarter of them and had the international community generously funded resettlement . |
| 8 | He would leave home immediately after lunch and come back between ten and eleven at night . ’ |
| 9 | They dodged and doubled back between ten and twelve thousand feet , where the gunners were not accurate ; but the chance of flying into a burst was always there . |
| 10 | David Timmis held firm with 26 in 44 overs but received little support as Oswestry were sent back for 109 . |
| 11 | Talybont were then sent back for 109 , Wheeler hitting 33 not out and Simon Lloyd Williams 31 . |
| 12 | Go on then and I 'll have mine back for five hundred , yeah |
| 13 | Upon a sale of land the purchaser is normally entitled to have produced to him and to investigate the deeds recording previous transactions in the land going back for fifteen years ( Law of Property Act 1969 : formerly the period was thirty years ) ; and though this period is sometimes reduced by agreement , the shortening of the period throws a risk on the purchaser , who is not only bound by all legal interests in the land which actually exist whether he discovers them or not , but also by all equitable interests which he would have discovered if he had insisted on an investigation for the longer period . |
| 14 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 15 | So of course inevitably what happened is we got the house lot in just , took it to this place in Leeds , got finished with that load and back for four which is what the estimate had covered us for , and then we had to start all over again with what was in the garage . |
| 16 | Traffic tailed back for twelve miles . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll sell ye it back for two and a half . ’ |
| 18 | He was away and would not be back for two weeks . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's been back for two days . ’ |
| 20 | Yet if this had taken place in her grandmother 's room , he would have found plenty of bottles there , a cupboard-full , going back for two or three years . |
| 21 | My mother 's been up there and she did n't come back for two hours and she came back we kept well he 'd sold a lot of meat in the meantime . |
| 22 | She did n't come back for two days . |
| 23 | The French or Gallica roses are probably the oldest cultivated roses of European origin , and can arguably be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 24 | It was much used in mediaeval times in Britain and , indeed , its use can be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 25 | it looks like he 's learnt from the Arse match where he was hauled back for 5 yards by Campbell before they scored their 2nd . |
| 26 | then we 'd have to be back for eleven , ca n't , I do n't know what 's gon na happen to the dog |
| 27 | But the taxi had showed up on the dot , and she had stepped in , resolutely refusing to look back for one last glance at the house . |
| 28 | Then she turned towards the stairs , resisting with all her strength the temptation to turn back for one last glance of the man who 'd sent her normally sane and steady world into turmoil . |
| 29 | McKoy , having already been called back for one false start , would have been disqualified for a second offence — but he took full advantage of his head-start to pip Jackson for the gold . |
| 30 | Its taken a rush ‘ nose job ’ , a dubious penalty , an unlucky bounce on Newsomes knee and a short back header cuased by Campbell pulling kelly back for 10 yards for those people to score goals . |