Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 A second application of this technique only leads back to the original solution , apart from an arbitrary complex constant .
2 An hour , and an hour perhaps to get back into the town — still plenty of time , as she had judged it , to catch the ten-forty-five for Bleasham .
3 He 'd make $500,000 for every dollar the stock rises or $46m if the stock ever gets back to the $145 range .
4 During the early part of 1988 the focus of research gradually moved back towards the piezonuclear fusion .
5 The boat now heads back to the north shore to call at Gersau , the third of the lakeside resorts sheltered by the Rigi massif .
6 Pritchard and one corporal then nipped back across the open roadway to drop a 10lb charge between two tugs moored in the basin , and their dash back to the hut , a mere 60 yards or less from the approaching enemy , was achieved without mishap .
7 Ehm just to get back about the point the studio being dark erm it 's just as a suggestion has anybody thought of actually running say a week 's worth of drama courses with er an artist in residence or something like that coming in to do work shops .
8 Discussions of this anxiety usually refer back to the students ' own learning in which rules were formalised and exemplificatory exercises done .
9 Among those giving evidence were two care workers , who said the girl regularly arrived back to the home in the early hours of the morning and sometimes not at all .
10 A GIRL today hit back at the judge who let her sex attacker walk free because she was ‘ not entirely an angel ’ .
11 The radical right mainly drifted back towards the Conservative party and only a small minority associated with the emerging fascist movement .
12 Drainpipe trousers and fluorescent socks , drape jacket , bootlace tie and hair carefully greased back into a DA style — the Teddy Boy certainly livened up the Fifties .
13 The pendulum then swung back to the other extreme where almost no grammar was taught , but all the emphasis was on talking , using conversations in which grammatical structures occurred in an uncontrolled way .
14 Before the honourable gentleman goes any further it would be advantage really to get back to the boundaries Mr Graham G .
15 The billposter attempting to paste the second of his ‘ Cooper and Co 's Teas ’ posters on the hoarding watched the paper slowly curl back from the wall and drop on to the ground .
16 When an echo from a distant object finally arrives back at the bat , it will be an " older " echo than an echo that is simultaneously arriving back from a near object .
17 The young woman just stared back like a frightened rabbit .
18 The work at early planning also fell back during the month .
19 This need for the father probably goes back to an earlier stage of childhood than the phallic-Oedipal one to which we have so far confined our attention .
20 The practice of abortion probably dates back to the earliest human societies .
21 In most cases , the stem simply withers back to the first node , and remains as an unsightly brown spur .
22 In large part , they were ; the government now stood back from the operation , and the ‘ private ’ middlemen and cutouts took charge of it .
23 The church here dates back to the Domesday Book .
24 There had been a light snowfall the previous night but it looked as if someone else had been here , visited the witch then gone back to the line of trees , covering their tracks by using a switch of old branches so no imprint could be seen .
25 A human gene can be inserted into fibroblasts using a retroviral vector , and the skin then grafted back to the donor .
26 Then the instrument was relaid with the crosshead towards the west so that the lengthening shadow gradually moved back along the hour marks to the twelfth .
27 He replaced the receiver then hurried back to the water 's edge where he gathered together his tackle before returning to the cabin to pack .
28 If the letter then comes back through the dead letter office , the plaintiff 's solicitor should make his own application to set aside any interlocutory judgment he has signed .
29 Twenty minutes later , wearing her grey flannel trousers and mole-coloured jersey and with her hair casually tied back in a velvet ribbon , Julia walked into the salon , only to be brought up short by the sight of David staring blankly at a yellow form in his right hand , a tumbler of whisky ignored and tilting in his left .
30 I have seen in my own area where wee lads who were on the border line of going one way or another regarding life in Northern Ireland , ending up getting jobs and doing great for a year and at the end of the year just thrown back onto the dole and people have lost interest in them again .
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