Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a grant is made and there is money or other assets in the estate of the person who has died , this will have to be used to pay the money back to the Social Fund . |
| 2 | The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on July 12 upheld the August 1990 conviction of former DC mayor Marion Barry for cocaine possession , but referred the case back to the original trial judge for resentencing , on the grounds that the judge had not given sufficient explanation for his decision in October to impose a sentence of six months ' imprisonment . |
| 3 | To refer the case back to the same solicitor who has reported that the case can not now be won , or refer it to a different lawyer ? |
| 4 | She smoothed the hair back from the dead face . |
| 5 | Venables takes the fight back to the High Court in October , when he will attempt to buy Sugar 's 48 per cent controlling interest in Spurs . |
| 6 | Some people think that it is useful to hold the stick back during the early part of the ground run , until sufficient speed has been reached to ensure good rudder control . |
| 7 | The position of the stick in steady flight is a very clear indication of the angle of attack , and having the stick back near the rearmost stop should warn the pilot that he is close to the stalling angle for the wing . |
| 8 | The complexities of these situations are shown by the case of an applicant and his family who left what was described as an ‘ overcrowded tin or galvanised structure with no basic amenities ’ in Bangladesh and who were treated as intentionally homeless by one London borough ( who considered that it was reasonable for them to continue to occupy that accommodation ) but not intentionally homeless by a second London borough who referred the applicant back to the first . |
| 9 | It is necessary to have the lace carriage back on the left before you can knit any rows , so simply slide the carriage back to the left out of the way of the knitting . |
| 10 | ‘ Where are we going now ? ’ she asked as he swung the car back into the main street . |
| 11 | He extracted Catherine a short while later and turned the car back on the darkened road which would lead them towards the A1 . |
| 12 | One then has to extrapolate the result back to the real space-time in which we live . |
| 13 | Together , the pair devised a series of three-year plans — the first was to put the club back in the first division , the second to get the club established in the top third of the table . |
| 14 | She threads the Monster back into the high chair where it stiffens , collapses forward , stiffens again , slides down to the crutch-stop and lies there half under the tray , flailing its arms and legs like a crab on its back … and howling — howling like the hell-sent creature it is . |
| 15 | I put the sheet back in the folder and the folder back on the other rear seat . |
| 16 | you 're actually pushing the head of the femur back into the joint |
| 17 | ‘ I remember getting in the car and driving through the village back to the main road … but … nothing else . ’ |
| 18 | → Sorry to have forgotten about the Pacifica , Graham — although , come to think of it , Charvel/Jackson might also have been in on the act back in the mid-eighties . |
| 19 | Then , letting his actions be shaped once more by the dream , he set off , carrying the boy back down the broad main corridor towards the guard post and the lift beyond . |
| 20 | By denying approval to the package , LIFESPAN will return all Design Changes ( DCs ) on the package back to the Active state and allow the package manager to update the modules again and then resubmit the package for approval . |
| 21 | Success has n't solved all their problems — Cindy Wilson has taken time off to be temporarily replaced by David Lynch 's protegee Julee Cruise — but it has put the bounce back into the bouffant bop from which their name is derived ( a B-52 being a hairdo ) . |
| 22 | ‘ It is important to get the team back on the right track as quickly as possible . |
| 23 | Erm a and that has , that has led us from the group back to the individual tenants , and one |
| 24 | I had a hundred men in there , dismantling the place back to the bare walls . |
| 25 | If it could be measured in units related to time , the quantities may be found to be proportional to the distance back in the evolutionary chain to which an individual may revert . |
| 26 | I rode the bicycle back to the darkened and empty boatyard . |
| 27 | Lightly fold one half of the dough back over the rolling pin , then carefully transfer to the tin . |
| 28 | Chelsea might have increased their lead 15 minutes later , but Wise elected to shoot across the face of goal rather than pull the ball back to the well-positioned Fleck . |
| 29 | I kept throwing the ball back to the wrong player . |
| 30 | If I were playing tennis , I would put the ball back in the hon. Gentleman 's court by asking whether he thinks that those claims are genuine because they have been put through someone 's letter box and because they ask the recipient to sign the form and post it back . |