Example sentences of "[vb -s] back [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dick Hebdige stands back from the virtual war |
| 2 | An imposing large house stands back from the main road , known as Thorne Hall , dated 1881 . |
| 3 | And it , kind of faces both ways , it , it looks back to the early period of the development of Freud 's thought that we 've already spoken about , and its beginnings back in the eighteen nineties , and in certain other respects , it looks forward , to the kind of revolution that was going to occur after World War Two . |
| 4 | This old way , ‘ With an alien people clutching their gods ’ , looks back to the savage world which Eliot had been exploring , the world trapped in the ritual of ‘ birth , and copulation , and death ’ . |
| 5 | As the Docklands beer festival fades from view , Martyn Cornell looks back at the sad demise of brewing in the Cockney heartland |
| 6 | Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson looks back over the TOP Programme as it has progressed at Hunterston and considers some of its achievements . |
| 7 | The car leaps forward , tears between two lorries and lurches back into the middle lane . |
| 8 | But in November 1950 the Chinese sent some 250 000 " volunteers " across the Yalu , and the war swung back in favour of the North Koreans and their allies as they drove the UN forces back to the 38th parallel . |
| 9 | Then he drags his victim into the bushes or the trees , kills and cuts back to the other road and the car and makes his getaway . |
| 10 | A second application of this technique only leads back to the original solution , apart from an arbitrary complex constant . |
| 11 | Elsewhere , like on ‘ Criminals ’ or ‘ Shaky Ground ’ , you get all the weird , unresolved chording that Michael Stipe favours , and a suitably battered vocal that reaches back to the old mountain music and forward to Dinosaur Jr , Lemonheads and Nick Cave . |
| 12 | This is what it means to say that Dostoevsky brushes against Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov as he reaches back towards the underground man . |
| 13 | Yet despite a modulatory and harmonic palette occasionally redolent of mid-Classicism , his employment of formal procedures unmistakably harks back to the bygone era ( much the same could be said of Mozart 's church music ) . |
| 14 | The architecture shows the influence of the Italian colonisation ; the modern harbour harks back to the healthy export of livestock to the Gulf States ; and the large scale agricultural activity in the adjacent fertile valley now lies dormant with equipment and crops stolen and even the electricity pylons stripped of their cables . |
| 15 | The latter phrase harks back to the bare trust provision in section 6(3) . |
| 16 | STORY : how Meaulnes gets back to the lost domain . |
| 17 | There are n't very many , I mean , it gets back to the other thing which is underlining my thinking about this stuff because erm you 're dealing with cultural form . |
| 18 | ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’ |
| 19 | After a week , Shaun calls back for the full container and drops off a new one . |
| 20 | In most cases , the stem simply withers back to the first node , and remains as an unsightly brown spur . |
| 21 | The private sector of rented accommodation has become a relatively minor part of the housing market and its long-term decline certainly stretches back to the First World War . |
| 22 | And just selfish enough to demand that momma bird flies back to the bloody nest — surely to God not tonight , you ca n't do this to me , Lucy , I 'm going to crack with all this nothing . |
| 23 | ( Koch 1985a , p. 149 ) Koch and others have stressed that because this conception of the gaze goes back to the Freudian idea of an originary bisexuality it therefore affords a better explanation of women 's actual viewing behaviour , e.g. their multiple identifications with either gender . |
| 24 | The papal banner , the vexillum sancti Petri , goes back to the eleventh century , perhaps to Alexander II ( 1061 – 1073 ) . |
| 25 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 26 | Support for such a fund goes back to the Evershed Committee in 1953 , which recommended that a fund should be available for actions at first instance and on appeal , certified by the Attorney-General as raising a question of law of exceptional public interest which it is in the public interest to clarify . |
| 27 | The recorded history of the church goes back to the mid-12th century , and in this study the Author describes church life in Foleshill from the outbreak of World War Two , right through to the restoration of the Old Church ( as it is known locally ) . |
| 28 | The history of the perehera goes back to the second century AD , when King Gajabuha won a great victory against his foes in southern India , the Tamils , chasing them back across the narrow strait into their homeland . |
| 29 | It goes back to the second world war , really . |
| 30 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |