Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] back [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd be lucky if he was merely broken back into the Scouts for ten or twenty years . |
| 2 | We have only to look back to the debates about language across the curriculum to remember the puerile arguments over whose responsibility it was to teach language skills . |
| 3 | The royal demesne vills , fields and woods in Sherwood Forest , for example , which had been put out of the forest by the perambulation of 1300 , were now ‘ entirely put back into the forests by the said King Edward ’ . |
| 4 | At one point , they saw the sea receding from the near-by beaches ; sucked away and apparently forced back by the earthquakes , so that quantities of sea creatures were left stranded . |
| 5 | ‘ Better get back into the woods I reckon . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'd better get back to the Operations Room . ’ |
| 7 | Both romantic lyricism and boogification not only date back to the beginnings of Elvis 's career but also continue to be used throughout its development . |
| 8 | To actually just sit back on the hands , as the government are doing , is not a policy , it 's an abdication of responsibility . |
| 9 | He was unhappy there but , determined not to slip back into the pits where his grandfather had wielded a pick , worked hard and won scholarships both to Jesus College , Oxford , and the University College of Aberystwyth . |
| 10 | When she had finished she turned to Nara , who had just come back with the things she needed and was peering round the door , as if he was too scared of her magic to come right in . |
| 11 | She promised to find out , and she 's just come back with the results . |
| 12 | " Now , you just jump back under the covers , and I 'll sit myself here . |
| 13 | The eventual sacking of Charman largely stems back to the rows with Allison during the recording of the album . |
| 14 | Now , almost ten years , on farmers there say they would not go back to the days of Government subsidies and control over what can be grown . |
| 15 | The drays and bullocks Stephen had sent from Yarrundi eventually arrived on 27 September , the ‘ tent was struck ’ where Gould 's men had encamped outside town with all the provisions , and was loaded up on the carts for the long , slow haul back to the reaches of the Upper Hunter . |
| 16 | Erm fift and he 's still going back to the fingers . |
| 17 | Discussions of this anxiety usually refer back to the students ' own learning in which rules were formalised and exemplificatory exercises done . |
| 18 | I always come back to the Stones when I think of The Smiths , because of the camp , but mainly because of the way each band illuminates their era for us . |
| 19 | Even if the units of government are not based upon the counties , people still hark back to the links that they had with the traditional counties . |
| 20 | Other research suggested they might become concentrated , churned around in the waves and eventually deposited back along the beaches and banks of local estuaries . |
| 21 | If the poem goes back to the origins of religion , it also goes back to the origins of society and language . |
| 22 | In this , the third issue of Update devoted to general SVQs , we also report back on the seminars held recently for external verifiers and for centre co-ordinators from new piloting centres . |
| 23 | Isabel was so stunned that she nearly fell back on the pillows . |
| 24 | I 'd got a troublesome cough developed , and now looking back through the years , er it would have been a sort of hay-feverish condition that I I have been a bit bothered with . |
| 25 | With characteristically bad judgement , Charles now turned back to the Scots , with whom he made a secret treaty under which the Solemn League and Covenant would be confirmed by King and Parliament , and presbyterianism would be established in England for a limited period . |
| 26 | Thomas could now look back on the papers he had begun , or completed and sold in his first two terms , as ‘ vain stuff ’ but he continued to write verses , which were sent to Harry and Helen . |
| 27 | Now look back at the extracts from Lawrence , Boyle , Ozick , Betjeman and Joyce . |
| 28 | Right , now coming back to the girls . |
| 29 | Before the honourable gentleman goes any further it would be advantage really to get back to the boundaries Mr Graham G . |
| 30 | As they set off she realized they were n't driving back towards the restaurants of the town centre and Willi 's beloved Franz Joseph hotel , but up to the mountain road that led over the pass and into the next valley . |