Example sentences of "[vb pp] back [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 5 years with Maxwell junior at the helm , the club has dropped back into the second division and shows debts of up to £4.5 million . |
| 2 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |
| 3 | But they were pegged back in the 41st minute when John Bumstead scored with a diving header from Scott Minto ’ s centre . |
| 4 | He showed Horsley and Everett politely round the castle , explaining how parts dated back to the fifteenth century , and telling the preposterous , but true , story of how the building , formerly the family home of the Fenwicks , had been shifted stone by stone from the foot of the hill in the 1930s to give it the spectacular view it now enjoyed . |
| 5 | This had several squares of very heavy , dark grey woollen cloth which Mum told me came from her own great grandmother 's cloak , so presumably could well have dated back to the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | First the next coupon payment is added to ( 8.8 ) and then the whole sum is discounted back to the first day of the delivery month . |
| 7 | On active citizenship Labour has had little to say , although Labour spokespersons haves given support to the general idea of civic responsibility and the encouragement of a sense of community , which can be traced back to the nineteenth century traditions of civic virtue and community solidarity which are strong in the Labour party . |
| 8 | Their regulation can be traced back to the thirteenth century and subsequent legislation such as that of 1697 — ‘ An act to restrain the number and ill practice of brokers and stock brokers ’ . |
| 9 | The family , which can be traced back to the thirteenth century , lived at the manor of Cavendish Overhall , Suffolk , until the house and lands were sold in 1596 by William Cavendish , Michael 's eldest brother . |
| 10 | history The Treasury can be traced back to the eleventh century whereas the Department of the Environment was created in 1970 . |
| 11 | As we have observed in earlier chapters , one of the major concerns of government one which can be traced back to the last century — is the control of the level of expenditure by the state . |
| 12 | There were other polled cattle in Ireland throughout the ages : the ‘ maol ’ ( hornless ) types are referred to in traditional cattle-raiding stories which in some cases can be traced back to the fourth century , and remains of polled cattle have been found ( along with small , horned Kerry types ) at archaeological sites dating back three to four thousand years . |
| 13 | This tradition has been traced back to the sixth century AD . |
| 14 | I would buy the parchment and arrange its transport down to the wharves and we concluded that , if we sold the wine brought back on the first voyage , we would make a profit . |
| 15 | Town 's drugs are often made in Britain , flown to the Far East or some other convenient staging post and then brought back on the next night — to be sold more cheaply than if they had never left Britain . |
| 16 | In April each of the canes seen protruding starkly from the ground in February is cut back to the second bud and stakes are planted for their support . |
| 17 | He pointed to experiments in the process two and a half centuries before ( and could , in fact , have gone back to the fifteenth century ) . |
| 18 | In 1895 he was promoted back to the second class , but two years later , at the age of forty-five , a medical board found him unfit for duty ‘ due to chronic rheumatism and cracked feet ’ . |
| 19 | Under hypnosis she was taken back to the first day of her stay in hospital — the day before the operation itself . |
| 20 | Finally output is switched back to the second camera which is focussed on the forest clearing . |
| 21 | Later they told me that the examination had shown that I was not yet sixteen and that I was to be sent back on the next flight . ’ |
| 22 | The lay-out of the town had been established back in the twelfth century when a new market place had replaced the old , congested commercial area alongside the church . |