Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do make sure too , especially on some of the brushes that have washers ( plastic coverings ) , that they go back in the right order and that the screw is done up IN THE CENTRE of the washer . |
| 2 | That they carry back to the crevice |
| 3 | Flowers visited by passerines are twisted such that they face back to the peduncle , on which the perching bird stands : hummingbird flowers differ in being tubular and sticking outwards making them readily accessible to hovering birds . |
| 4 | And they come back into the University two days a week . |
| 5 | Above the uproar , Gerrard signaled furiously at the men with the microphones , and they fell back to the sides of the studio , pulling the microphones away from eagerly reaching hands , and Gerrard began to walk backward toward the dais , looking from side to side as he went . |
| 6 | Obediently , resignedly , he swings the car round in a dangerous U-turn at the next intersection and they flash back towards the airport , the jewel factories and towerblocks of the Bangkok suburbs thinning out again to the dim outlines of swampy fields pierced by palmtree plantations . |
| 7 | She was most solicitous ( scheming bitch ! ) so he told her that his wife was cured and they went back to the same old routine . |
| 8 | The water lapped about their feet , and they went back to the posts . |
| 9 | Strolling , they pondered public education versus private schooling ; Johnson wondered why boys from England had been sent as far as Aberdeen to be educated , with ‘ so many good schools in England ’ , and they went back to the New Inn , to be joined there by Sir Alexander Gordon , an old friend of Johnson 's , who had sent a card in advance , and through Boswell we join their conversation as it drifts back to the stocking-making . |
| 10 | He returned to John , and they strolled back toward the castle and the site of the railway bridge . |
| 11 | Nails replied with some very bad language , which somewhat alienated Shirl , and they walked back to the police-car in silence , and Nails was locked in the back . |
| 12 | Juliet laughed , and they walked back to the car . |
| 13 | And she 's just like , this really officious and then , she just said , everybody goes round , and they try and get the cheapest price and they go back to the place that are giving the cheapest price , whatever . |
| 14 | However , their flight was soon aborted and they settled back on the table . |
| 15 | He waved weakly after the car but he did not speak as Rose shut the door and they turned back into the house . |
| 16 | Well , I think , I do n't know if they went back to the pits and sort of left , but he did n't want to stay there and and got this job as a gamekeeper . |
| 17 | Old maps help , especially if they go back to the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries , and surveys of earthworks can also show early elements . |
| 18 | If they sit back against the jolly green juggernaut they 'll get run over — make no mistake about it . |
| 19 | But they struck back in the last 10 minutes with tries by their flanker Andy Williams and scrum-half Howard Evans . |
| 20 | But they went back to the same orphanages which were grim.There was a determination to help them . |
| 21 | I ordered a double portion of chicken and a Seven-Up and went to a table while they went back to the late movie on Channel 4 on a portable television . |
| 22 | Interestingly enough , broadside probably derives from the naval tactic of firing all the guns from one side of a ship of war at once , without giving the recipient the necessity of awaiting installments Such sheets are of historic importance , since they date back to the sixteenth century , when popular poems and ballads were issued in this form ; and royal and official proclamations took to the streets in this guise almost from the first days of printing . |
| 23 | By the garden gate of Four Winds she stood looking at the house for several minutes in silence before they got back into the car and she told him how to get to the Inn on the Point . |
| 24 | The Sunday after they came back from the West Indies , he and Sara and his mother — who was living with them now in a room not much larger than a cupboard , although the view , as Simon constantly said , was staggering — went formally to lunch in their old house . |
| 25 | The bells rang out for the first time just a day after they arrived back at the church . |
| 26 | ‘ When they came back from the segregation unit they would thank us for getting the chance to get their heads together . ’ |
| 27 | He 'd send them then , he every dock was numbered from one to hundred and thirty and he 'd say righto , number one so and so , number five so and so and of course when they come back to the pool , they 'd go on the end of the rota . |
| 28 | When they get back to the start again . |
| 29 | It was a great escape for a team so used to getting caught , but Rough and his fellow revellers chanced their luck and noisily ordered room-service when they got back to the hotel . |
| 30 | ‘ When they got back to the Lodge around eleven o'clock , Pinder ostentatiously said ‘ 'goodnight ’ to the group and went back to his own bedroom . |