Example sentences of "[pron] are [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the terrain increases in difficulty , or the whole party is forced onto the same flank , the leader climber can place sling and nut runners , which are clipped back down the rope and collected by the last member . |
| 2 | When you are working back from the cosine , sine or tangent you do n't know which of the 2 possible angles is correct . |
| 3 | To answer this question we are led back to the idea of big gassy planets like Jupiter spitting out small rocky ones like Venus , which then play a sort of cosmic billiards before settling down . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |
| 5 | De Klerk said his visit showed South Africa and the world that " we are moving back to the fold " . |
| 6 | Here again , we are taken back to the very beginning of the town , to the years just after the Norman Conquest — for King 's Lynn is not really old by English standards . |
| 7 | Like Jonah , we are all storm-tossed by the seas of life , undergo apparent death and certain burial , but then attain a blinding resurrection as the car-ferry doors swing open and we are delivered back into the light and into a recognition of God 's love . |
| 8 | And with that slice of humour , we are brought back to the present . |
| 9 | But if that is put on one side we are brought back to the question of what kinds of determining factors Poulantzas invokes in order to explain what actually happens . |
| 10 | No-one can deny that being pretty helps — no female on breakfast television would have a career otherwise — but I can not believe that we are turning back to the dark days when it was deemed the most important thing of all . |
| 11 | It becomes a colossal step to re-enter working life , even if they are wanted back in the labour market . |
| 12 | They are wanted back in the States for the ‘ voodoo murders ’ of the girl 's parents . |
| 13 | Mrs Leinen fears if they are flown back to the United States she 'll lose custody forever . |
| 14 | It 's just as well they are going back inside the lavatory . |
| 15 | The answer to his first point is that it is absolutely clear that a number of people who break their bail conditions are remanded in custody when they are brought back to the court ; but that happens in only about six out of 10 cases , and in four out of 10 cases when those who break their bail conditions are brought back to the court , it seems that they are no longer remanded in custody but are again let out on bail . |
| 16 | The suggested version has similarities to Postman 's Knock , too , with a couple having to spend at least one minute observing before they are allowed back into the room . |
| 17 | He added : ‘ For the fourth time , they are coming back to the people and asking everybody to forget two recessions , forget millions unemployed , forget thousands of bankruptcies and thousands more whose homes have been repossessed . |