Example sentences of "back [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Statements like ‘ malaria specialists have rallied round Clark ’ , and ‘ nine other scientists … . back the former pupil ’ are grossly unfair .
2 I crept back the few yards to the way marked path and walked on down the track .
3 who I was , and what I wanted , in a lazy , indifferent way , and … never ceased smoking while he heard me , and … , when I concluded , he took his pipe from his mouth , reversed it , and with the mouth-piece pointing to the door , he said , ‘ Very well , you can go back the same way you came .
4 At the time of weddings , a group of women and children came across the fields with baskets and scarves full of sweets and rice which they touched down under the holy tree to be blessed , before going back the same way they 'd come .
5 And you knew what they were thinking , they were trying to weigh up whether they dare go across the stepping stones and you could tell by their faces and what they did of course when they decided no it was beyond them and they 'd play safe and they 'd go back the same way .
6 This is perfectly true and he thought he 'd be back the same day and he was n't .
7 Yes , now it 's al all back the same way again now .
8 The truck came back the same afternoon .
9 And we before that we made quite a few runs to Kirkwall with a that was a small one that we had and erm you had to get the bus from Evie of course to Kirkwall and back the same way .
10 In addition to explaining the risks of financial loss , the warning notice also explains a number of key aspects of the operation of futures markets which may not be readily apparent to the private investor such as : ( 1 ) The treatment of collateral and the fact that a customer may lose a proprietary interest in the collateral and not receive back the same assets that he deposited .
11 Why should we be worried anyhow : the longer it take everyone to realise we 're back the more victories we will pile up .
12 We also welcome back a former club captain , Trevor ‘ Killer ’ Proby ( 52 ) after a four-year suspension .
13 I can not remember a previous time when we have bought back a former council house .
14 I rejoined the lane , and walked back a little way towards Navan .
15 Let's go back a little way , between the woods , and have a scratch near that oak tree there — just by that white patch of stitchwort .
16 Many of the males went to work in town and sent back a little money occasionally .
17 We have to go back a little way to remember that in 1976 they presided over the most savage cuts ever imposed on the national health service .
18 Somewhat naïvely , I had expected it all to be sorted out then and there , but the chap just took my name , gave me a form to fill in and told me to come back a few days later for a full interview .
19 I have nothing but admiration for those hardy woodturners who have put the clock back a few hundred years and are making furniture with their pole lathes , but it has made me more than ever aware that the wood lathe has changed very little over the years .
20 So I urge anyone with a garden to visit Sainsbury 's , keep back a few potatoes at the end of the season , before Christmas store them carefully and plant them in the spring .
21 He was brought back a few hours later , dazed and dreamy , with a dull headache and no very clear notion of what had been done to him or why .
22 In Meswick hunters can find lodging in the Mushroom Cap Motel and tip back a few beers at the Mushroom Bar at the end of a long day 's tramp .
23 Josh Gifford wheeled Honey End round , took him back a few paces and put him at the fence a second time .
24 Go back a few hundred years and look around : there are politicians squabbling for power , priests saving souls , etc .
25 Upwind , however , the daggerboard is still kept in the down position , though in extreme conditions it needs to be moved back a few centimetres .
26 Most meteorites collected elsewhere in the world fell within the past 200 years , although some dates of fall range back a few thousand years .
27 Move it forwards and back a few inches , 30 times .
28 Move it forwards and back a few inches , 35 times .
29 Move it forwards and back a few inches , 35 times .
30 Move it forwards and back a few inches , 35 times .
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