Example sentences of "[to-vb] back [prep] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the operation , I 'm going to come back to the door in a minute , during the operation which gun were you carrying ? |
| 2 | And that , in turn , is likely to feed back on the Government in the form of pressures from the most irresistible of all Tory constituencies , the City . |
| 3 | Barry , assistant manager at Perry 's brasserie in Beaumont Street , was forced to drive back to the bar in his own car and ordered to open the safe . |
| 4 | So when he Shah left his office to drive back to the residence in the palace ground , Afgshar rushed towards him . |
| 5 | After several years , when they have grown to full size , they start to swim back to the rivers in order to spawn . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll have a lot of time to go back over the past in the coming years , I suppose , wonder whether I made the right choices at the right time . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd like to go back to the minutes in terms of matters arising which do n't arise under the the agenda items . |
| 8 | Shop manager , Jim Willcock 's been allowed home from hospital , but he 's not well enough to go back to the co-op in Cam . |
| 9 | I was glad I had made arrangements with a City Temple friend to go back to the flat in Southwark to collect the last of my wanted books etc . |
| 10 | To get to them you need to go back to the fork in the road from Tardets where before you turned left , and this time take the right fork , for the village of Larrau and the Col d'Erroymendi ( yet another road into Spain , though one that is open generally for no more than five months in the year — these are snowy parts ) . |
| 11 | " 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 . |
| 12 | In other words , to refer back to the discussion in the previous section , an understanding of theory is needed for evaluation . |
| 13 | Throughout the first months a beginner learns that in executing the basic reverse punch and the lunge punch , his hands have to withdraw back to the body in order to repeat the procedure over and over again . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had lost his watch back in Victorian London and so had no clear idea of time ; it may have taken minutes or hours to get back to the hole in time . |
| 17 | The jeep was bouncing them about mercilessly as the Brigadier tried to get back to the village in time for the Captain and the Substitute to go back to Florence and eat . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | THE Prince of Wales is to get back among the crofters in the Outer Hebrides next month . |
| 20 | We 've got to rush back to the studio in Abingdon now . |