Example sentences of "[noun sg] back [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Self Inflicted Wound , that was how they had referred to sunburn back in the old days of Counter Insurgency . |
| 2 | The National Railway Museum will set the family purse back by a similar sum . |
| 3 | I played that on almost every album back in the early days ; it 's a black one and it 's a beautiful guitar . ’ |
| 4 | He extracted Catherine a short while later and turned the car back on the darkened road which would lead them towards the A1 . |
| 5 | ‘ Where are we going now ? ’ she asked as he swung the car back into the main street . |
| 6 | Dismore back with a faultless ride |
| 7 | He lifted the oars and began to pull at them again , digging heavily into the water to his right , bringing the boat back onto a straight course . |
| 8 | This means that garment workers in the Third World who benefited from the search for cheap labour by the TNCs in the past , can no longer assume that their jobs will always be safe from relocation back to the First World ( Elson , in Elson and Pearson , 1989 ) . |
| 9 | Impact You thin from this position because you are trying to transfer all your weight back to the right side at impact . |
| 10 | Impact Unable to transfer your body weight back to the left side , you hit the shot on the upswing , resulting in a low thinned shot . |
| 11 | Together , the pair devised a series of three-year plans — the first was to put the club back in the first division , the second to get the club established in the top third of the table . |
| 12 | When I was about twelve she told me how she 'd " flung " a sixpenny piece back at a titled woman who 'd given it her as a tip : " If you ca n't afford any more than that Madam , I suggest you keep it . " |
| 13 | Henry cast his mind back to the small talk of a small town . |
| 14 | If you cast your mind back to the 1966 World Cup , you may recall that Pak Doo Ik , the North Korean forward , also wore odd shorts and he went on to score the winner against Italy , so I thought it was worth a try . |
| 15 | ‘ Stupendous — spectacular , ’ she offered distractedly , forcing her mind back to the mind-fazing wonders of the gorge running between mountains of pure marble and through thirty-eight tunnels , and even spanned at one point by a bridge of marble . |
| 16 | Henry Tyler cast his mind back to the fatal evening . |
| 17 | First , however , cast your mind back to the lunar eclipse on August 6th because , by all the laws of astrology , the only road for you to travel was then clearly signposted . |
| 18 | She threads the Monster back into the high chair where it stiffens , collapses forward , stiffens again , slides down to the crutch-stop and lies there half under the tray , flailing its arms and legs like a crab on its back … and howling — howling like the hell-sent creature it is . |
| 19 | Roland drew his breath in minor shock : Maud said , ‘ Oh , the dolls ’ — and Sir George brought his light back from a blank mirror entwined with gilded roses and focused it on the three rigid figures , semi-recumbent under a dusty counterpane , in a substantial if miniature four-poster bed . |
| 20 | Lonrho is also selling its UK Volkswagen distributorship back to the German car manufacturer for £124 million . |
| 21 | For instance , when an existing part is modified to produce a new part only the modification is stored along with a reference pointer back to the original part . |
| 22 | The Detective Sergeant unzipped his coveralls , collected his labelled brown paper bags and put his equipment back in the two cases . |
| 23 | Perhaps , though , his greatest achievement , was in leading tennis back into the Olympic Games for the first time since 1924 . |
| 24 | A more complete record of sequencing data specifically in the algal , protozoan and prokaryotic groups would be necessary to trace the evolutionary origin of this intron type back to the alpha-purple bacteria , the bona fide eubacterial ancestors of mitochondria and the suspected common origin of these introns . |
| 25 | Several key factors will influence just how quickly Ireland can get its rugby back on the right track : fitness , tough competition and coaching . |
| 26 | students of bones , a jocose reference back to the first description of Mrs Podsnap ( OMF i 2 ) as a ‘ fine woman for Professor Owen , quantity of bone , neck and nostrils like a rocking horse … |
| 27 | It could , for example , refuse to hand a child back to a drunk parent but the child 's continued detention against parental wishes would have to be authorised by court order as soon as possible . |
| 28 | What is required is an experiment in which , after non-reinforced exposure in one context and conditioning in a different context , the subjects are tested with the target stimulus back in the original context . |
| 29 | Eastern winds have brought what had been fair sport back to a normal level for the time of year . |
| 30 | Gray and Wilcock ( 1981 ) trace the attitude back to a Royal Commission on the Poor Law in 1909 , but no doubt it is much older than this . |