Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] back [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And you have no plans to go back into general nursing ? ’ |
| 2 | They had some beliefs and practices that seemed to link with the early days of the Old Testament , possibly due to some earlier Christian influence , believed by some missionaries to trace back to Nestorian missionaries moving through parts of Burma into China . |
| 3 | Mind you , mind you I went er through Newark the other day and I had to go round the mountains to get back on that road out to Lincoln . |
| 4 | Newmark ( 1966 ) claims that this causes the learners to fall back on first language rules , i.e. they use the syntax of the first to speak the second . |
| 5 | Dave Mitchell typifying Town 's efforts to get back to winning ways . |
| 6 | There is also evidence that bureaucratic advancement may be obtained by successful efforts to cut back on departmental expenditure . |
| 7 | But it would complicate the withdrawal , with three thousand men to get back across that ford , instead of one-third of that number . |
| 8 | My only other close encounter with a paraglider was finding one grounded in a quagmire in the Arrochar Alps , where the poor man had come down in the wrong glen , leaving him miles to walk back to any road . |