Example sentences of "[adv] back [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Owen caught her and eased her gently back on to the sofa . |
2 | Have you ever been in love , Ellie ? ’ he asked , bringing them gently back on to the track he wanted . |
3 | Then pretend to lay the cards randomly back down on the table . |
4 | But Maria was already back up to the piano stool . |
5 | In the end it took ten minutes to get the Cambridgeshire police Land Rover turned past McLeish 's squad and their vans , and away back up to the stable . |
6 | He got straight back on to the divan and lay with his eyes shut , as if I should n't have come and I felt I ought never to have come ( especially without telling C ) , and I felt as well that it really was a bit much , a pose . |
7 | He went straight back on to the mat to work with his judo partner of a decade and more , Brown . |
8 | So I walked carefully back out of the city and into the King 's park . |
9 | It performed a Velcro impersonation , sending me spinning right back down to the pitch below . |
10 | After three months ' travelling in Australia , hitch-hiking has become an addiction ; the stimulation of a new acquaintance , a frank exchange of views , and then back on to the roadside — a self-contained experience without any repercussions . |
11 | Okay love , yeah down there around the D at the bottom and then back up to the D at the top |
12 | We have attempted to align a previously independent field of inquiry , cognitive and developmental psychology , with evolutionary biology and particularly sociobiology , and in so doing have constructed an ensemble of models that trace , at times clumsily and imperfectly , behavioural development from the genetic blueprint to the assembly of the nervous system to the learning process — and then back down to the alteration of gene frequencies by natural selection operating within the context of particular cultures . |
13 | What they usually do is they go up and then back down by the church |
14 | Quietly she opened the door , and walked silently back down to the passage towards the hall . |
15 | as if sensing it , Julius took advantage of it , pushing her lightly back on to the grass . |
16 | ‘ I promise you we 'd be much better to go quietly back on to the road and make our way to the Fire Court . ’ |