Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] back [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the break was a nasty one , McCracken came back successfully at the beginning of 1921–22 when the Palace made their debut in Division Two and he played more games for us in that division than anyone else during our four year tenure there 1921–25 . |
| 2 | meanwhile F pulls back sharply over the shoulder . |
| 3 | Coleraine hit back early in the second half with a splendid strike from Cook . |
| 4 | We have a special position in that the oldest regiment in the British Army is the Honourable Artillery Company , which traces its history back to 1537 , whereas the oldest regular units go back only to the middle of the 17th century . |
| 5 | In the meantime , he could raise a harvest of tobacco , indigo and cotton , to be ripe and ready on the Hopewell 's return to ship back home to the Lord Clovelly ; a load of perhaps ten thousand pounds of goods to increase his fortune , reinforce his foothold . |
| 6 | At Sara 's and David 's entrance , the girl stepped back convulsively from the man , and Sara saw with a dull feeling of inevitability that it was Matthew and Sandra . |
| 7 | Although historic links between the two countries go back long before the days when the French were sending troops to help the Jacobite rebellions , the French presence in Scotland remains relatively small . |
| 8 | But even in this tranquil part of England many of the ‘ open ’ villages had a variety of local crafts , distributive trades and small industries , whose origins go back well into the eighteenth century . |
| 9 | It is probably best to take this piece seated , to suggest a character looking back reflectively at the events recalled . |
| 10 | 1 Winston walks 1¾ km to school and the same distance going back home in the afternoon . |
| 11 | Philip stepped back quickly into the cover of the trees . |
| 12 | Hold this position for a few seconds then let your shoulders and head go back slowly to the floor . |
| 13 | A large part of their earnings went back again to the USA for investment ; as a result they had to pay Belpan National Bank 's transfer charges twice . |
| 14 | And Durbeyfield lay back comfortably on the grass . |
| 15 | The noise rumbled back uncertainly from the hills beyond the town . |
| 16 | Never mind that they might have tipped off Gaddafi by doing so , there was nobody now left on the ground to report back directly to the United States government on the effects of the bombing . |
| 17 | A phrase came back uncomfortably from the white-out , ‘ the sorry jeste of Life ’ . |
| 18 | The gang-boss rose to his feet , allowing the woman to drop back heavily against the box . |
| 19 | Here the guard changed over and the train headed back eastwards to the coast . |
| 20 | Trent looked back straight into the bows of the patrol boat . |
| 21 | So it seems that the weakening of the trade winds allowed more surface water normally piled up in the western Pacific to flow back eastwards across the ocean . |
| 22 | One mother of two small children arrives back later in the afternoon looking ashen . |
| 23 | City came back strongly in the second with two goals in five minutes . |
| 24 | ‘ And there I was waiting for you , in such a state ever since Kukrit came back late from the airport and said he 'd missed you , ’ Jeremy replies , suggesting with automatic but irrelevant chivalry that they are lovers separated from their tryst with one another . |
| 25 | Boxall and Tierney came back strongly in the second game , but the Blackmoor pair pulled away at 7–5 up to take the game 15–7 . |
| 26 | Eleanor Thorne lay back again on the high pillows , and her nut-brown face was petulant . |
| 27 | Admittedly the current burst of improvement dates back only to the Renaissance , which was preceded by a dismal period of stagnation , in which European scientific culture was frozen at the level achieved by the Greeks . |
| 28 | The Chinese cosmology based on li and ch'i goes back only to the Neo-Confucian movement of the Sung dynasty ( AD 960–1279 ) , a conceptual revolution which can itself be understood in Kuhnian terms as a response to the breakdown of an older paradigm . |
| 29 | ‘ His name is Aldhelm , ’ said Cadfael flatly , and rose from his knees , letting the soiled face sink back gently into the leafmould . |
| 30 | Following Burmese patterns the lines were usually of four syllables with the rhyme coming back diagonally from the fourth word of the first line to the third of the second , the second of the third and the first of the last line . |