Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Aladdin goes right back to the 1,001 Nights , showing us Scheherezade ( Eartha Kitt ) being turned into the Genie of the Ring and the Caliph of Baghdad ( Sylvester McCoy ) into the Slave of the Lamp by the Grand Vizier Abanazer ( Peter Blake as a deliciously over-the-top wicked uncle ) . |
| 2 | Hereford cattle have a long pedigree … they can be traced right back to the red cattle of Roman Britain . |
| 3 | He stood for a while , watching the pyrotechnic chaos in the yard below , then moved slowly back into the banqueting hall . |
| 4 | A few minutes later , Sir Thomas was walking slowly back to the Imperial Hotel in advance of the main party . |
| 5 | Part of her was appalled at the ease with which she had slotted straight back into the military lifestyle ; part of her welcomed the safety of knowing exactly where she fitted in and what she was supposed to do . |
| 6 | ‘ Yeh , ’ he answered , and he sank happily back into the soft white pillow . |
| 7 | Let them govern , not sit comfortably back with the occasional ‘ tut tut ’ after the event . |
| 8 | ‘ Demonstrate , Nicholson , ’ Mr Foggerty said hopefully , but Nicholson demonstrated by swimming away back to the deep end , mostly underwater where he was hard to see . |
| 9 | As has been firmly documented in much of the British press , Paris was divided into those designers attempting to proceed through the Nineties and more or less disappointing our expectations , and those who have love bombed straight back into the Seventies . |
| 10 | Her spoon dropped listlessly back into the dull porridge lake . |
| 11 | After a couple of years the clump , will be looking a little shaggy so in March cut hard back to the developing basal shoots and feed as new growth develops . |
| 12 | He came briefly back from the dead a few minutes later , pulling into a Backdoor tube and getting fried on the reef . |
| 13 | by no means all rhyolite lavas are associated with obsidian — the majority are not — and , as one goes further back through the geological record , obsidian becomes progressively more and more scarce , due to devitrification , and none at all is found in rocks more than a few million years old . |
| 14 | It can be traced directly back to the anti-Dreyfusard cause of the late nineteenth century . |
| 15 | The band was originally formed way back in the early 1900's under the name of Milltown Flute Band , but shortly after its inauguration the band 's conductor and founder member , John Millar , died and the other members decided to change the name of the band in his memory . |
| 16 | There was always that about him — the Welsh chieftain down from the hills on a raid to seize the bounty of the fat rich oppressor and then ride home back into the trackless labyrinths of his past . |
| 17 | They are heading directly back towards the hellish towers of Castle Drachenfels . |
| 18 | The First is that period which recedes from the very beginning of life on earth and reaches far back into the unknowable depths of the timeless universe . |
| 19 | They have a record going well back into the Cambrian , when it might be supposed that the chordates were undergoing a major diversification . |
| 20 | Jump diagonally back with the rear foot and perform a front foot roundhouse kick . |
| 21 | And you put all the equipment you have used safely back in the correct tins and on the correct shelf . |
| 22 | Mike Sadler was flown straight back to the Eighth Army and assigned the task of navigating the New Zealand Division around the south of the Mareth line , while Cooper was able to enjoy the pleasures of Constantine with an old friend , Reg Seekings , who had made his way through after the B Squadron attacks on the road . |
| 23 | Hauser turned away , walked slowly back to the waiting Sikorsky . |
| 24 | Ellwood walked down the row of trees , then circled the house , staying well back from the lighted windows . |
| 25 | I walked sadly back through the connecting passage to Number 11 , and waited almost stunned with the news . |
| 26 | The Aston Villa centre half , now settled comfortably back in the Irish fold after the controversy of his failure to appear for the game in Albania three weeks ago , is a major figure in Charlton 's plans . |
| 27 | I was brought rudely back to the real world by Tony 's tripod coming off the top of the pile of clatch ( odds and ends ) piled up above the seat and hitting me on the head as the truck lurched to a halt , diving itself into a drift of deep snow . |
| 28 | My father , a cultivated man in every other respect , nursed a strong contempt for science which rubbed off on me and , I suspect , went right back to the Darwinian controversies of the nineteenth century , for he was the son of the manse . |
| 29 | Keeping clear and concise notes of what you have read enables you to organise your essay without having to refer constantly back to the original sources . |
| 30 | Hutton had in fact summarised the principles of natural selection in unpublished manuscript notes way back in the 18th century . |