Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rugged David McIvor — at No8 on the Scottish scrum feed but on the flank on France 's — was the one man who showed any real propensity for knocking men back in the tackle . |
| 2 | Now Parlour will get the chance to stake his claim after putting Arsenal back on the rails after their bad start to the season by making both goals in the 2-0 win at Liverpool on Sunday . |
| 3 | The remaining three thousand million years or so have been taken up by the slow process of biological evolution , which has led from the simplest organisms to beings who are capable of measuring time back to the big bang . |
| 4 | Once a recommendation for deportation had been made it was rare for the Movement to try to reverse the order , though the irony of sending youngsters back to the source of their unhappiest memories was not lost on refugee workers . |
| 5 | This Barth saw as the irreplaceable basis of Christian theology ; and , he insisted , once it had been recognised , there could be no possible reason for casting around in other directions , and certainly not for turning theology back into the contemplation of our own spiritual navels , or for blunting the challenge and promise of the gospel by seeking to reinterpret or ‘ improve ’ it in the terms of some alternative ( and therefore competing ) theological or philosophical frame of reference . |
| 6 | Multi-millionaire Silver , who ploughed part of his self-made fortune into hauling Leeds back to the pinnacle of the English game , is convinced manager Howard Wilkinson can spark another revival . |
| 7 | The leadership of the NECC is well aware of the contradictions in urging children back into the overcrowded classrooms of a system still based on apartheid principles . |
| 8 | He had some chores to do now , before facing Cowley back at the office . |
| 9 | Selkirk talked to the captain for a while in a language which he later explained was Erse , the tongue of the Isles , before taking Corbett back to the cabin . |
| 10 | He added defiantly : ‘ This bomb will not deter us from putting Portadown back on the North . ’ |
| 11 | But he vowed : ‘ This bomb will not deter us from putting Portadown back on the map as the hub of the north . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Contacts will continue in every way possible in relation to getting people back to the table . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But he seems to have a lot of good ideas aimed at taking Forest back to the Premier League and I 'm happy to be part of that . ’ |
| 14 | He also put some of the onus for countering terrorism back onto the public . |
| 15 | This can be achieved by making contributions in the year of change and in the following two years , in the latter case by relating premiums back to the year of change . |