Example sentences of "[noun pl] back [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 My hon. Friend is right that the Labour party would be prepared to overrule parental ballots and to take grant-maintained schools back into the throes of LEA control , which is exactly what parents have voted to escape .
2 To listen to ‘ a load of shit on shehadat ’ , as Cave called it , was part of the side-business of negotiating ; the Americans would do their best to try to steer their interlocutors back to the subjects at hand .
3 Steve laughed and directed his eyes back to the papers on the table .
4 The Knights Panther is one of the oldest and most respected of the Knightly Orders , tracing its origins back to the times of the Crusades against Araby .
5 Barbarians , at the Dorman Museum until August 22 , takes visitors back to the days of woad , wonders and warrior queens .
6 Not far away is a miniature village ; a ‘ Noddy ’ train takes visitors back to the outskirts of Bridlington .
7 By providing money for so-called buy-back operations , in which countries either bought their own commercial debts back from the banks at deeply discounted levels or , alternatively , simply used the money as collateral when negotiating low-interest bond deals , a number of countries had been able to reschedule their own external obligations on easier repayment terms than had been agreed at the time when they were made .
8 The glow faded in mere moments , during which time the Doctor dropped into the corridor , snatching his hands back from the sides of his newly created tunnel with sharp gasps .
9 Get those boys back to the dormitories at once . ’
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