Example sentences of "back [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Koeman was involved everywhere and cracked in a 35-yard shot which cannoned back off the post after 48 minutes . |
| 3 | The ball came back off the post and Whelan touched it in . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Martha stepped back off the verandah , feeling a surge of fear conditioned by the beatings of earlier years . |
| 6 | Clinton Ford 's sweetly struck free-kick came back off the post and Paul Read scrambled home the rebound . |
| 7 | But much of it is reflected back off the Earth 's surface — at a different wavelength — not as short wave , but as long wave radiation . |
| 8 | As he pulled away , the leaves on the trees shuddered and the rain began to fall so hard that it jumped back off the tarmac , turned to mist . |
| 9 | Barnes was desperately unlucky after a magnificent one-two with McManaman to see his volley come back off the foot of the post . |
| 10 | The alternative infra-red system uses a beam which is emitted from the camcorder and reflected back off the subject , the time taken for the reflection to return being measured and converted to a distance setting . |
| 11 | Billy 's cottage was set back off the road , behind a neat little hedge . |
| 12 | At last the head moved , following the malevolent gaze of his eyes , and D'Arcy could see the hair swept back off the sallow forehead , gathered in a ponytail at the back . |
| 13 | They had already been unlucky with just five minutes remaining in normal time , when Neil Webb 's shot cannoned back off the foot of the post . |
| 14 | Lamb allowed too much for the ball going across him , and dragged one that was coming back off the pitch onto his leg stump from side off . |
| 15 | I 'll pay you what I owe and then get it back off the agency . ’ |
| 16 | You ca n't step back off the ladder — and they do n't ‘ arf itch ! ’ |
| 17 | And if there were h a wagon or a hutch went off the road there you were with not enough height to lift it all back off the rail again and believe me that was experience in itself . |
| 18 | Then back to the kitchen to clear up the mess before Dad got back off the night shift . |
| 19 | He stepped back off the bed and started to unbuckle his belt . |
| 20 | With only three minutes remaining Paul Mooney 's corner produced a powerful header from Paul Curran which thundered back off the Bohemians ' woodwork . |
| 21 | Paul McGurnaghan 's shot came back off the base of the post and David Eddis was on hand to hammer the ball into the net . |
| 22 | Every top lip was pulled back off the teeth , every eye was ringed round with a reddish bruising , while their cheeks cracked like tambourines as they cough , cough , coughed . |
| 23 | The radar waves bounce back off the cars that approach , and are registered by the receiving apparatus . |
| 24 | Half time Coleraine 0 Omagh Town 3 Mark McWalter forced a brave save from devine in the 65th minute , his stunning 25 yard shot bounced back off the keeper and the Scotsman drove his follow up effort into the side netting . |
| 25 | A fabulous drive from Knell cannoned back off the Cliftonville upright from fully 25 yards — and the visitors breathed again . |
| 26 | This time he left both Stockwell and Phil Whelan gasping in his wake before executing a marvellous chip-shot which came back off the underside of the Ipswich crossbar . |
| 27 | He returned Malkin 's right-wing ball for Irons to crash a shot back off the crossbar , Aldridge reacting instinctively to hook the rebound in . |
| 28 | I mean you want to see his house I mean it was set back off the road and you see the people pull ploughing |
| 29 | Claim it back off the firm ? |
| 30 | So next weekend when you come back off the induction you should be fired up , let's see what we 're really gon na to do here yeah . |