Example sentences of "[to-vb] back [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They began to fall back towards Ace and Petion , pausing where there was cover to shoot back at the Germans on the freighters or on the other side of the docks . |
| 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 | And that is , that it seems to look back to the writings of Darwin . |
| 4 | A police spokesman said all four people held had now been released without charge , although some had been bailed to report back to the police at a later date . |
| 5 | To enable researchers to report back on the results of recently completed research in the Scottish courts to an invited audience comprising the various branches of the legal profession , policy makers concerned with the administration of justice , pressure group and voluntary organisations and to stimulate an informed discussion of key findings . |
| 6 | After several years , when they have grown to full size , they start to swim back to the rivers in order to spawn . |
| 7 | For them , he said , there was a need to go back to the basics of spelling , grammar , punctuation and arithmetic . |
| 8 | I 'd like to go back to the minutes in terms of matters arising which do n't arise under the the agenda items . |
| 9 | Well I 'd like to go back to the sorts of things that Barbara Bryant has been talking about . |
| 10 | ‘ You have to go back to the days of Brady and Hindley for an incident which compares to the horror . ’ |
| 11 | I wo , I would like to go back to the days of my youth when we at Hogmanay there was usually frost and and and ice , and er we used to celebrate it partly on skates and it was great fun when you skated perhaps a mile and a half out of the town , and er er had a lovely ice festival and then we skated back and we had |
| 12 | I mean we 're not going to go back to the days of the commonwealth and relying on you know , lamb from New Zealand all the time . |
| 13 | I share the view of the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East that it does not make sense to go back to the days of the red flag , but we must find a compromise between the passenger 's interest , which is the interest of the railways , and the pedestrian 's interest . |
| 14 | She remembered how she had n't been allowed to hold him for more than a moment before he had to go back behind the bars of his crib . |
| 15 | The choice would be whether to draw one pair of curtains to stack back on the walls beside the windows , thus exposing the corner , or to have two separate pairs of curtains that draw from the centre of each window and thereby cover the corner area with fabric . |
| 16 | Nigger told him he was due to start back on the tugs on the following Monday . |
| 17 | " Not bad — not bad at all , " replied Joseph hurriedly and he tried to lean back against the cushions in the same careless fashion as his brother while the two rickshaws rolled on together side by side through the light traffic . |
| 18 | Thankfully , the week after we whooped Chelsea to get back on the rails to that now famous title finale ( famous for us anyhow — right ? ) : - ) . |
| 19 | The PGL had a run of four successive titles broken by the NIBA last year and our hoping to get back on the rails in Dublin next month . |
| 20 | After losing 83–6 to Blaydon and 42–3 to Horden in recent weeks , the injuries are not helping to get back on the rails in time for their final two league matches this month against Sunderland and Mowden Park . |
| 21 | Will he confirm that it is our top priority to get back to the basics in education and to sweep away the leftist progressive teaching methods that , having been put to the test , have failed ? |
| 22 | So , for example , we see the pupils messing around , ‘ to get back at the teachers for telling them off and putting them in detention , ’ or using physical violence after being unjustly accused of a misdemeanour , or being given a ‘ soft ’ teacher . |
| 23 | THE Prince of Wales is to get back among the crofters in the Outer Hebrides next month . |
| 24 | And they have vowed to refuse to move back into the flats on Conwy Morfa until their demands are met . |
| 25 | The best idea they had was to travel back to the Wars of the Roses and bring two armoured knights with them into the age of the Krooms . |
| 26 | You may think you have to cut back on the necessities of life for a few days or cancel a treat you had promised yourself and the family . |
| 27 | This is a unique journey — a chance to step back to the days of sumptuous style , to the days when international travel was lavish and luxurious , when railways meant romance and trains meant tradition . |