Example sentences of "[vb infin] back [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Since May was seventy-two when his book was published , it is clear that many of his recipes must date back to the days of Queen Elizabeth 1st .
2 Then Rachel would flit back along the alleyways to Richmond Palace . ’
3 He says it 'll go back to the Conservatives at the next election .
4 For the source of this we must go back to the Pythagoreans of the sixth century BC , whose cosmological speculations were based on the ‘ tetracys ’ , that is , the geometrical symbol composed of ten discrete points symmetrically arranged in the form of an equilateral triangle with sides of four points each .
5 I hope that Sibbald and colleagues will go back to the practices in their survey to examine this important issue and to explain the uneven distribution of counsellors working in general practice .
6 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 .
7 ‘ All right , let's go back to the events in the Market Square .
8 ‘ I 'll walk back to the stables with you , ’ she suggested .
9 IF BILL CLINTON were to look to Florida for advice on how to pass a health-care bill , the answer might come back in the words of Lyndon Johnson : better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out , than outside pissing in .
10 We can dust off the Rambo movies , and Mikhail Gorbachev can sit back amid the ruins of the Soviet empire and watch how a superpower really behaves .
11 As Sabrina stood outside the hotel on the Place de la Gare staring up at the Cathedral 's spire silhouetted against the dark , sombre skyline , she let her thoughts drift back over the hours since their departure from New York 's John F. Kennedy Airport .
12 Frowning , she let her mind drift back to the events of two years ago .
13 Others are bound to arise ; not least because , as the Soviet Union cracks apart , documents and material taken there after the war may drift back into the hands of historians .
14 For she could then fly back to the arms of her lover , heart-throb Ayub Khan Din .
15 Obsessed with Siti , the youngest , he stole her sarong from the bank so that she could n't fly back to the stars with her startled sisters .
16 Privately , however , reaction at the higher end of the trade is positive , with the feeling that potential purchasers will turn back to the dealers for better service at more or less comparable prices .
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