Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , when I stumbled across Miss Diana Dors — a permissive sex-symbol of some notoriety twenty years ago — advancing its claims in a popular magazine and asking us to cast our minds towards ‘ my era back in the fifties ’ , I was not immediately sure whose side she was supposed to be on . |
| 2 | On the train , I had been unable to imagine Flaubert ( howling like an impatient dog ? grumbling ? ardent ? ) making the same journey ; now at this point of pilgrimage , the gateposts were no help in thinking my way back to the hot reunions of Gustave and Louise . |
| 3 | I yawned my way back to the Narrow Neck . |
| 4 | ‘ I was always hopeful that I would be able to fight my way back into the representative scene but that was the early chance I needed ’ , recalled Roebuck . |
| 5 | I will definitely be hanging on to the sweat-stained handkerchief that Tom Jones tossed to my mother back in the Sixties . |
| 6 | Cold swimmers demanded their money back at the new Ponteland Leisure Centre after claiming the water was too cold . |
| 7 | At the time it seemed as though the Midland had miraculously got its money back from the ill-fated venture . |
| 8 | ‘ Stupendous — spectacular , ’ she offered distractedly , forcing her mind back to the mind-fazing wonders of the gorge running between mountains of pure marble and through thirty-eight tunnels , and even spanned at one point by a bridge of marble . |
| 9 | Several key factors will influence just how quickly Ireland can get its rugby back on the right track : fitness , tough competition and coaching . |
| 10 | Shelley shrugged , and turned her attention back to the tall figure in the centre of attention . |
| 11 | Maggie quickly brought her attention back to the cross-eyed girl and forgot all about the young man . |
| 12 | Sliding into the scented water , she laid her head back against the cool surface of the bath , willing the heat to relax her tired and knotted muscles . |
| 13 | She rested her head back against the soft leather seat , watching the patterns formed by the trees against the night sky as they drove steadily back to the road . |
| 14 | The move completed , Paige sank to the ground and rested her head back against the rising bulk of a tree . |
| 15 | She leant her head back against the hard cushion on the swivel chair , not bothering to open her eyes when the door opened again . |
| 16 | ‘ Nico 's Dream ’ is a fine example of this , where a sampled fragment of the late ice queen 's vocal is caught in a metal mesh of shifting sound that , for a fleeting moment , brings her spirit back from the dead . |
| 17 | After incubation and the exertions of tending their young , adults require the rest of the summer to regain condition and undergo at least a partial moult , then to fatten again for their journey back to the wintering grounds . |
| 18 | A river flowed near to Bavduin , and each night the dead came to the water on their journey back to the cold earth of their own times and lands . |
| 19 | Carrie 's young brother was waiting to tie up a brace of barges to a river tug for their journey back to the Royal Albert Dock and he had taken the opportunity to visit his sister and her husband in the dining rooms . |
| 20 | Born into one of the oldest families of Ulthuan , the brothers can trace their line back to the doomed King Aenarion , first and mightiest of the Phoenix Kings of Ulthuan . |
| 21 | My task , after having been subjected to a six months ' course to learn Russian , was to supervise the packing up of the Wilhelmshaven dockyard , and arrange its shipment back to the Soviet Union as part reparation for the enormous damage that had been done to that country by Nazi Germany . |
| 22 | The older colleges , which traced their history back to the eighteenth century 's ‘ dissenting academies ’ had not kept the high standing they had then enjoyed . |
| 23 | Even where the entrances were very well hidden by ploughing and cultivation , the rabbits somehow found their way back to the selfsame underground burrows their predecessors had used for generations . |
| 24 | But Tottenham 's problems pale by comparison with those of last night 's opponents ; should Coventry beat Sheffield Wednesday at home tonight and win or draw here on Saturday , then County will be on their way back to the Second Division . |
| 25 | They had met when dining at English 's Oyster House , and were on their way back to the rebuilt Grand Hotel for a night-cap and bed . |
| 26 | Despite these dangers many birds find their way back to the same spots year after year . |
| 27 | Thoughts of that previous one only crept their way back with the forbidden thought of a child . |
| 28 | The older chalets have had facelifts , their corrugated iron roofs replaced by red pantiles , whitewashed boundary walls topped off by yet more red pantiles to give them a Mediterranean resort flavour in hopes of luring their customer back from the real thing . |
| 29 | There is every chance that the IDO application will eventually find its way back to the Welsh Office , who have declined to ‘ call it in ’ voluntarily . |
| 30 | In return for this concession the English government obtained a number of crucial episcopal appointments , not least the translation of Sudbury to Canterbury ; moreover , the good offices of the pope were assured in the current peace negotiations ; finally , some of the money would find its way back to the English crown for the ransom of the pope 's brother , Roger Beaufort , who was then an English prisoner of war . |