Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] back [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime , he could raise a harvest of tobacco , indigo and cotton , to be ripe and ready on the Hopewell 's return to ship back home to the Lord Clovelly ; a load of perhaps ten thousand pounds of goods to increase his fortune , reinforce his foothold . |
| 2 | At Sara 's and David 's entrance , the girl stepped back convulsively from the man , and Sara saw with a dull feeling of inevitability that it was Matthew and Sandra . |
| 3 | It is probably best to take this piece seated , to suggest a character looking back reflectively at the events recalled . |
| 4 | 1 Winston walks 1¾ km to school and the same distance going back home in the afternoon . |
| 5 | Hold this position for a few seconds then let your shoulders and head go back slowly to the floor . |
| 6 | The noise rumbled back uncertainly from the hills beyond the town . |
| 7 | Never mind that they might have tipped off Gaddafi by doing so , there was nobody now left on the ground to report back directly to the United States government on the effects of the bombing . |
| 8 | A phrase came back uncomfortably from the white-out , ‘ the sorry jeste of Life ’ . |
| 9 | The gang-boss rose to his feet , allowing the woman to drop back heavily against the box . |
| 10 | Here the guard changed over and the train headed back eastwards to the coast . |
| 11 | City came back strongly in the second with two goals in five minutes . |
| 12 | Admittedly the current burst of improvement dates back only to the Renaissance , which was preceded by a dismal period of stagnation , in which European scientific culture was frozen at the level achieved by the Greeks . |
| 13 | ‘ His name is Aldhelm , ’ said Cadfael flatly , and rose from his knees , letting the soiled face sink back gently into the leafmould . |
| 14 | Following Burmese patterns the lines were usually of four syllables with the rhyme coming back diagonally from the fourth word of the first line to the third of the second , the second of the third and the first of the last line . |