Example sentences of "back a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Josh Gifford wheeled Honey End round , took him back a few paces and put him at the fence a second time . |
| 7 | Go back a few hundred years and look around : there are politicians squabbling for power , priests saving souls , etc . |
| 8 | Upwind , however , the daggerboard is still kept in the down position , though in extreme conditions it needs to be moved back a few centimetres . |
| 9 | Most meteorites collected elsewhere in the world fell within the past 200 years , although some dates of fall range back a few thousand years . |
| 10 | Move it forwards and back a few inches , 30 times . |
| 11 | Move it forwards and back a few inches , 35 times . |
| 12 | Move it forwards and back a few inches , 35 times . |
| 13 | Move it forwards and back a few inches , 35 times . |
| 14 | Move it forwards and back a few inches , 30 times . |
| 15 | Move the leg forwards and back a few inches , 50 times . |
| 16 | To understand how these families , regarded by their Orcadian neighbours as good , clean-living people , came to be at the centre of such serious allegations , it is necessary to go back a few years . |
| 17 | All three of the participants in that clandestine meeting , looking back a few months later , were to recall the weather on that day as an omen — a mirror of the tempestuous events which followed . |
| 18 | He staggered back a few steps and , massaging his face , mumbled in complete astonishment to nobody in particular : ‘ He hit me ! ’ |
| 19 | I saw her knock back a few glasses but never saw her tight ! |
| 20 | It was only when I was almost in despair that I recalled having seen a letter written by a knitter from overseas , about an easy way to make cables and it seemed a pleasant way to take a break by referring back a few months until I found the letter from — you 've guessed it — June Shaw . |
| 21 | We half expected them to come back a few days later , but they have never returned to the barn we prepared so painstakingly for them , although they are still sometimes seen in the vicinity . |
| 22 | He moved back a few paces and , without pausing to think , took a running leap out into the chasm between the two houses . |
| 23 | Emily said , her voice hard , ‘ Paying back a few paltry debts . |
| 24 | One of my favourite memories of her goes back a few years to when she was playing Martina Navratilova in New England . |
| 25 | The attendant giggled and came back a few minutes later with another bowl of rice and chicken , which Myeloski despatched with his customary enthusiasm . |
| 26 | Remember back a few issues ( UX No 363 ) when Gain Technology , the multimedia start-up that used to call itself Cayenne Systems , was talking about giving the IBM/Apple joint venture a run for its money and persuading IBM to adopt its technology ? |
| 27 | The partnership of Müller and Völker dates back a few years to the Bayreuth Festival — we have extracts of their portrayals there of these roles in 1936 ( but studio-made ) on Telefunken ( available on a variety of labels on LP ) . |
| 28 | Although , if we wish to test the depth of these mid-Victorian fears and also to judge the constancy of the vocabularies of reaction , then we must edge back a few years to an episode that would bring back flogging as a judicial punishment almost as soon as it had been abolished . |
| 29 | Whitlock shouted at the two policemen on the motorcycles to get the photographers back a few feet to give Mobuto a chance to get out of the limousine . |
| 30 | She tipped the sunshade back a few inches and let the dazzling rays toast her face . |