Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor John Ashworth , vice-chairman of the committee of vice-chancellors and principals ( CVCP ) , also urged Mr MacGregor to use ‘ a heaven-sent opportunity to go back to the drawing board and look at the entire issue of how students are supported — grants , loans and fees . ’ |
| 2 | There is nothing what actually says , only when that cheque goes back to the bank , there 's nothing anywhere apart from the bank who says that cheque is actually made out to . |
| 3 | RIGHT Mandarin comes back to a hero 's welcome . |
| 4 | The time taken by the sound of each click to bounce back from the rock to the bird , enables the swiftlet to judge just how far away it is from the rock wall ahead . |
| 5 | She saw his hands relax , and the broad shoulders lean back in the chair . |
| 6 | A lined mouth stretched back in a screech . |
| 7 | He was young and very beautiful ; brown hair springing back from a broad forehead , blue eyes dark as pansies , a smooth , curling , sulky mouth . |
| 8 | He began by taking the wrong road out of Burford , then tried this lane to get back to the A40 . |
| 9 | There was a significant improvement on the other side of the viaduct , a Victorian class divide that had survived the years , and within two blocks he was walking down a tree-lined avenue composed of tall , detached houses set back from the road behind fair-sized gardens . |
| 10 | I tucked the binoculars into the holdall again and without any sensible plans wandered back towards the dining car . |
| 11 | ‘ I need a few hours to report back to the office , then my time can be my own . |
| 12 | If all the transactions costs are zero , this condition collapses back to the previous no-arbitrage equality . |
| 13 | Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself . |
| 14 | Generous lips drew back in a smile to reveal small , pearl-like teeth . |
| 15 | The old guard hit back at the newly formed , broad-based Union of Democratic Forces , which is organising tomorrow 's demonstrations . |
| 16 | This law dates back to the Middle Ages , when it was a means of filling the royal coffers , and until now it has allowed the State ( today the Treasury ) to claim possession of valuable objects whose owners can not be traced . |
| 17 | Salisbury listened , turned to the heralds in discussion , and then without further remark went back over the ditches . |
| 18 | This process links back to the idea of positively tracking the child 's behaviour . |
| 19 | Much of this rain runs back into the sea , combining with the rainwater from the great rivers of China . |
| 20 | This point relates back to the issue of cross-species extrapolation raised in the preceding chapter . |
| 21 | They represented a common English custom dating back to the Middle Ages and were first mentioned in Stamford in 1486 . |
| 22 | Easily Accessible : Lewes is an interesting town dating back to the Norman Conquest with steep narrow streets and a mixture of Georgian and older buildings including antique shops , a ruined castle , museums and a house which once belonged to Anne of Cleves . |
| 23 | He flicked the light on , and the greenish glow reflecting back from the tiled interior showed it to be empty of human occupation . |
| 24 | He also thinks it is important to build such a museum , as Japan and Britain have a long historical relationship dating back to the seventeenth-century when William Adams came to Japan on a Dutch ship . |
| 25 | This suggests that ri2 originated from the transposition of ri1 , but that this event dates back to a time before P.wickerhamii and S.obliquus diverged . |
| 26 | I 've just this minute got back to the flat and I 'm having some difficulty taking in your news . ’ |
| 27 | And Mrs McMahon , who naturally had n't seen it because had n't she just this minute arrived back from the village and was n't the dress still in its bag , looked up at the three hovering on the stairs as though it were a divine deliverance , mumbled vaguely about a headache coming on , and thankfully abandoned her responsibilities to whoever was willing to take them on . |
| 28 | If the right hon. Gentleman goes back to the incidents to which he was referring , he will find that they were not ones that could naturally and immediately be followed by a statement . |
| 29 | Alright now I just wonder if it might be worthwhile just some people going back to the classroom now or some stay or ? |
| 30 | The old woman fell back onto the bed , dead . |