Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had told them many a fairy story and when they checked , they returned more furious than before , dragging him out of his dirty , fetid pit back into the great vaulted torture chamber to be questioned once again . |
| 2 | Through his maternal grandmother , Jones fancied he could trace a distinguished ancestry back to the Norman conquest , but he grew up in straitened circumstances , and money remained a problem throughout his life . |
| 3 | Commanded by the brilliant Rommel in a lightning campaign , the Afrika Korps threw the British forces into headlong retreat back to the Egyptian border , leaving only a garrison encircled in the coastal town of Tobruk . |
| 4 | And the early signs of that being altered date back to the tough public spending rounds of the early 1980s . |
| 5 | The wistful look back to the glorious and not-so-glorious age of steam has ensured that there has been a rush to print off books about the railwayman 's experience . |
| 6 | Perhaps , though , his greatest achievement , was in leading tennis back into the Olympic Games for the first time since 1924 . |
| 7 | At the present time we correct the condition by surgery — pushing the displaced organ back to the right side and tacking it there with sutures . |
| 8 | She would take the long route back over the desolate flats . |
| 9 | ‘ Thacker , who was the sort of swimmer who needed a Mae West to stay afloat in his bath , battled his burning Hurricane back over the Maltese coast at about 6,000 feet , he then pulled his hood back , rolled her and baled out . |
| 10 | We have done exactly what I wanted us to do — brought a great singer back into the difficult world of the performer . |
| 11 | This brings the petty cash back to the original imprest . |
| 12 | Motoring : Rough ride back to the roaring '40s |
| 13 | DeVore watched him place the sealed slide back into the padded , shocksafe case and draw another out . |
| 14 | We have every reason to be proud of the service of the Territorial Army over the years , because we can trace the history of volunteer and reserve commitment back to the Norman conquest . |
| 15 | It is quite a shock to move from this charming , if slightly aimless stuff back into the original cacophonous maelstrom . |
| 16 | Finally , frozen stiff , we made our way back along the relative safety of the fisherman 's path , with a cursory wave back to the huddled forms . |
| 17 | They trekked round the side of the house and started a weary trail back over the moon-grey lawn , their feet dragging dark channels through the dew . |
| 18 | The box at Marske-in-Swaledale , which turns its blank stainless steel back to the main road , is a particularly sore thumb . |
| 19 | In its Annual Report 1990 published on Sept. 17 , the World Bank revealed that net transfers from the developing world back to the developed world in 1989 totalled US$42,900 million , an increase of $5,300 million over the 1988 figure . |
| 20 | Experts say that the antiquities at Ur and Tel El-lahm date back to the Sumerian period . |
| 21 | Pruning cuts out damaged and diseased branches , thus averting the spread of decay , while at the same time rechannelling the vital sap back into the productive parts of the plant . |
| 22 | And the grandmother 's homily in all its macabre detail , leading up to ‘ so if the dead could shave there 's no excuse for the living ’ releases a humorous response because it seems just what a respectable parent would say , in desperation to whip her errant son back to the straight ‘ n ’ narrow . |
| 23 | And it argues convincingly that only by giving economic and political power back to the poor — the people most dependent on the natural environment for their day-to-day livelihoods — can the world defend its future . |
| 24 | In nine years he has brought the Labour Party back from the dead to the brink of power . |
| 25 | This will put the Albanian economy back in the black , and we get the tans . |