Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Six agreed to hold an intergovernmental committee , to be headed by the tireless Paul-Henri Spaak , which would consider , flesh out and report back on the various proposals . |
| 2 | Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 3 | At a time when plans for global communications seem to rest on the semantics of international standards , Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 4 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 5 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 6 | The verbal instructions are important — they will act as reminders in the days following the lesson and help the pupil to inhibit his natural tendency to slip back into the old habits . |
| 7 | ‘ Let's go and find the bastards , ’ Sharpe grunted , and once he had said it he marvelled at how easy it was to slip back into the old ways of speaking about the enemy . |
| 8 | Another type of chart helps parents begin to stand back from the emotional reactions they have and see what is happening with their child . |
| 9 | Ranulf sprang up , pleased to abandon the fresh air of the country and head back to the seamy streets of London and the rounded pleasure-giving body of Mistress Semplar . |
| 10 | Even in daylight it had a sombre , suspicious air as if it wished to slink back from the adjoining houses . |
| 11 | Erm , I 'm sorry to come back to the central overheads er again , but erm it , considering that the other income largely related to ninety one , I 'm a little unclear why the central costs went down , I ca n't believe there 's been any salary cuts at |
| 12 | But of course it is nice to come back to the same places over and over again , sort of er see friendly faces . |
| 13 | They were piled haphazardly , some put back in the wrong sleeves , and were mainly recordings of Italian opera . |
| 14 | I met a teacher recently , one of our best , the sort of charismatic individual with a ready smile , a mind full of anarchic ideas , a love of literature and an effortless but much practised classroom skill which bounces back from the interested eyes 0& his students . |
| 15 | Looking back to the initial aims of the study as delineated by the deputy head , he envisaged both short-term and long-term aims . |
| 16 | From The Great Train Robbery ( 1903 ) onwards , the Western has been informed by a species of bitter nostalgia , looking back to the wild days of the West and questioning the value of the civilisation won by all that exciting gunplay . |
| 17 | You could see the prisoners looking back at the two bodies in the centre of the carnage ; there was a lot of blood now , spreading in pools . |
| 18 | The ageing NI team is looking back on the key events of the last decade of the millennium . |
| 19 | Looking back on the twenty-five years of fostering children , is there any one memory that stands out for you ? |
| 20 | Then , looking back into the old recipes for English fruit fools , we find that trifles , syllabubs , creams and fools have all at some point merged one with the other . |
| 21 | Looking back through the old progs I do n't see much sign of Forrester at all ! |
| 22 | Looking back over the two games we made it extremely difficult for ourselves in Moscow . |
| 23 | Sounds came back to the watching eagles . |
| 24 | The veneration of saints has a long history dating back to the early martyrs ( meaning witnesses ) . |
| 25 | Beyond Roland are the earliest of the Malá Strana watermills , dating back to the Middle Ages . |
| 26 | They represented a common English custom dating back to the Middle Ages and were first mentioned in Stamford in 1486 . |
| 27 | The renovation of a harbourside shop in Church Street , Whitby have revealed that it is one of the oldest properties in the town , dating back to the Middle Ages . |
| 28 | If the dieter feels she needs extra guidance or added structure to meal planning , she can always refer back to the suggested meals for good nutrition that we gave at the end of Chapter 4 . |
| 29 | All fords of the Esk , including Kirkandrews , were guarded on the English side by Graham peel-towers ; and though these would not be strong enough to hold up three thousand from crossing for long they could send warning back to the English authorities if so inclined . |
| 30 | Welcome back to the Three Counties Show at Malvern , where the weather has been kind , and the crowds have been flocking in . |