Example sentences of "[adv] back [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And gives movement to the arms of the scissors and so back through the sieves to the chariot and the moulds . |
| 2 | Shrugging , he slipped Blake 's identification into his pocket , and tossed the wallet carelessly back into the bushes beside the corpse . |
| 3 | ‘ XYZ ’ is rooted much further back down the racks of dog-eared discs in the second-hand shops where Moose once worked , back to C&W , maverick balladeers and songwriters like Jim Webb , Lee Hazelwood , Gram Parsons and Fred Neil ( whose ‘ Everybody 's Talkin' ’ gets charmingly worked over here ) rather than soundscapers . |
| 4 | When stratigraphers discovered facies ( way back in the days of Gressly ) , then all differences in lithology tended to become synchronous . |
| 5 | Since he began first-class cricket way back in the mists of 1966 he has bowled some 80,000 balls and taken well over 1,200 wickets . |
| 6 | Then the train went into reverse , motors growling , occupants groaning , and trundled slowly back through the squalls of rain , passing Maryhill and looping down through Anniesland and over Great Western Road . |
| 7 | Now , from rock nineteen ninety three style , let us move slowly back into the mists of time and a real rave from the grave : Elvis . |
| 8 | R. S. Wood and his colleagues saw a further advantage in a firm initiative by the Board : they looked wistfully back to the days of central power as exercised by Morant in the shadow of the 1902 Act , and believed that the Local Education Authorities created by that Act had become too powerful . |
| 9 | There is no enjoyment in climbing Whernside in mist or rain but if overtaken by bad weather , a perfect lifeline to safety is provided by a five-mile ridge wall that leads infallibly back to the environs of Ingleton . |
| 10 | In a place like this there are bound to be some good seamstresses and Singers will surely have had their salesmen down here back in the days of the square-riggers . |
| 11 | Well back in the days of the hardware stores . |
| 12 | Bad though it is , the figure suggests that Guatemala is not yet back to the horrors of the early 1980s when death squads , organised by military presidents , murdered at will . |
| 13 | The initiative moved firmly back into the hands of more conservative forces within the government . |
| 14 | Before leaving the village I consulted a chart outside the coastguard station , which confirmed that I had five hours before high tide ; this would give me time to get to the end of Worm 's Head and safely back onto the cliffs without danger of being stranded . |