Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] back [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is simply something that must be done ; and , in the same way , I had to get rid of some woman , tip the scales back in the other direction . |
| 2 | Among certain groups living in southern Africa the labia can be as long as seven inches and the owners of such equipment have to push the lips back into the vaginal opening in order to get on with their daily tasks . |
| 3 | John Lennon , the leader of Her Majesty 's Loyal Opposition , who was briefly a member of an unsuccessful group called The Quarrymen back in the 1960s , was apparently asked if he wanted to reform to appear on the bill . |
| 4 | Not bothering to put the designs back into the black plastic cylinder , Paul stuffed them under his arm . |
| 5 | Some earlier teams collecting wild cocoa had lost 50 per cent or more of their material by attempting to send it directly to distant breeding centres ; our intention was to bring the collections back to a local base for propagation and planting . |
| 6 | Then skim off the fat , pour the juices back into the roasting tin and bubble them up . |
| 7 | The first players then have to blow the balloons back for the second person to take over . |
| 8 | Keegan spelled out the philosophy which is steering the Geordies back to the big time under multi-millionaire chairman Sir John Hall . |
| 9 | This may have been the case when Lady C. first frightened the servants back in the twenties , but now that kind of behaviour would probably land Mellors in the hot water he so obviously needs . |
| 10 | Hang the curtains by inserting one curtain hook into each glider on track or pole and draw the curtains back into an open position . |
| 11 | Eisenman also traced the Sadducees back to the same source , indicating that the term ‘ Sadducee ’ is in fact a variant or perhaps a corruption , of ‘ Zadok ’ or ‘ Zaddikim ’ . |
| 12 | It lasted 26 years before John Bays , who is still competition secretary , allowed the professionals back into the Senior Cup , and the bowl which they had competed for became the prize for a new competition , the Essex Senior Trophy . |
| 13 | They include the products of the spread of the reptiles back into the aqueous environment from which their distant ancestors emerged , and , for the first time in the history of the vertebrates , the conquest of the air . |
| 14 | Using this technique , he often traced the symptoms back to the early years of the patients ' life . |
| 15 | He claimed that their plans to dump the roubles back into the Soviet money supply had been forestalled , a matter of hours before it was due to begin , only by his quick decision to order the immediate withdrawal of the high-denomination rouble notes . |
| 16 | Although the fishermen were not happy about releasing the dolphins , the Mayor insisted , and to the cheers of bystanders , and the chanting of blessings by Buddhist monks , State Senator Chen Goei Miao untied the net and six fishing vessels escorted the cetaceans back to the open sea . |
| 17 | The first stage must have been the re-establishment of Eadwine 's Humbrian confederacy to embrace Lindsey , for example , over which Oswald certainly established himself as a conqueror ( HE 111 , 11 ) , and to bring the Mercians back into a dependent relationship ; and the second to restore Eadwine 's position of dominance in southern England . |
| 18 | As part of the what the stores back in the mid eighties were more expensive suites and so too conflicting we had a fifty or twenty five pound coffee table we sold the two greater mixture so its a methodology of just an ordinary table for exactly without conflict . |
| 19 | She pushed the papers back into the large Crockford and looked round the room , realising there ought to be a servants ' stair to the first floor continuing the one running from the ground floor to the basement . |
| 20 | Dignity demanded that the dealer should hand the tiles back with a pitying smile . |
| 21 | When it comes to neck shaping and so on , it is best to decrease the stitches back to the original number , by , for example , taking eight stitches back to four stitches if that is how you increased for the cable before shaping . |