Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] back [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Tess stepped out of the tomb and managed to persuade Angel to walk back to the house , without waking him . |
| 32 | Pigeon-toed beneath her crinoline , Louisa clapped his performance , and the sound of her clapping sped across the ice to echo back from the trees . |
| 33 | Mr Whittington proved that the LCC had got themselves a very good orator to transfer back from the EMS when war was over . |
| 34 | MARK Ramprakash believes he needs help to get back to the top after being overlooked for England 's two winter tours . |
| 35 | City will be kicking themselves for allowing Cranfield to get back into the game , but the visitors must be given credit for a spirited second half performance . |
| 36 | I had a grand day at sea , but although the tide helped me to get back the wind did n't , and I used the engine to get back into the Crouch . |
| 37 | They had turned as if by common consent to go back into the cottage when the lights of a car , driven fast , came over the southern rise of the road . |
| 38 | It roots lay far back , in the rise of Prussia to the position of leading power in Germany , but there is no need to go back beyond the Congress of Berlin . |
| 39 | For them , he said , there was a need to go back to the basics of spelling , grammar , punctuation and arithmetic . |
| 40 | There was no need to go back to the shop . |
| 41 | The present system may not be perfect but it has worked pretty well and would be capable of improvement and adjustment without the need to go back to the drawing board . ’ |
| 42 | The political consequences are first increasing loss of control and crumbling of the party apparatus , next the state 's need to fall back on the army and police to preserve its own existence , public order and , it claims , the chance of imposing painful economic reforms . |
| 43 | And I assure you she would have every right to go back to the shop and say look these tights are not fit for their purpose . |
| 44 | In the first three months , three thousand miles , that does n't tend to happen in fairness erm and something like that would come up erm within that time scale , so , yes , I mean they have the right to go back to the dealer and I must admit in my overall view of the motor trade these days they do they are trying harder and harder to look after their customers because obviously they 're in business like everybody else , they know that their policy holders are covered by the Sale of Goods Act merchantable quality , erm and so they realize that if these things happen then they will endeavour to put the situation right . |
| 45 | In perhaps 50 per cent of cases the final diagnosis depends on confirmatory results from the pathology laboratory and these take from two to seven days to come back to the clinic . |
| 46 | It always feels like an admission of failure to come back from the Continent and have nothing to show for it . |
| 47 | I asked one member of a church planting team to look back on the experience . |
| 48 | If we picture a vibration as a cycle , that is as equivalent to a rotation round a circle to arrive back at the beginning again , the angular distance travelled in the mathematician 's natural units is 2π . |
| 49 | Fall down , go right and collect the painting , use the painted ledges and stars from the cauldron to get back to the start , go left and climb up the stairs from the cauldron , go right and bounce up to the platform to your right , go to the right of the cloud and paint some ledges to get into the castle , stand on the wall to your right and paint some ledges to go right to the edge of the castle , go up and collect the piece of painting , go down , then up the left side of the window using the painted ledges . |
| 50 | Often , when I was cycling through the camp after coming off duty , I would spy Thursby in the distance beavering along , head down against the gale , full of eagerness to get back on the job and spot any mistakes we had made during his absence . |
| 51 | Therefore the Australian move to make whaling more humane was in fact a move to get back to the way it had been after a serious deterioration . |
| 52 | But he then stressed his commitment to making a ‘ success ’ of our EC membership and his desire to get back into the ERM . |
| 53 | ‘ Maybe … but veterans deserve a bit of R and R. Why this sudden desire to get back into the action ? ’ |
| 54 | The most obvious sort of ‘ group ’ will be a local congregation ( remember the urgent need to move back into the churches and be owned by them where we are not ) but it could be a Youth Group , a VIth form , a sports team , a WDM Group , an organisation or club — all manner of groups come to mind . |
| 55 | In fact erm there are now , you could say , too many teachers in the system overall , and that 's why there are new proposals erm both in the colleges and in the universities to cut back on the number of teachers that are being trained . |
| 56 | That — and all the training and practice — gives me confidence to head back into the tournaments determined to succeed again . ’ |
| 57 | The most commonly-used light source is a discharge lamp , generally with a collimating capillary which allows a pencil of light to escape into the sample region without permitting sample to flow back into the discharge . |
| 58 | Lawrence picked up the handset and radioed into central headquarters , asking for a policeman to go back to the club . |
| 59 | He urged Vincent to go back to the Borinage and continue with his work there , though without promising to intercede . |
| 60 | Lofoten was chosen for this first large raid because it offered a chance to hit back at the enemy as well as such economic targets as the destruction of fish oil supplies , which might impair German manufacture of nitro-glycerine and would reduce supplies of vitamin A and B capsules issued to German troops . |