Example sentences of "[vb pp] back [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bill is reported back to the whole House as amended . |
| 2 | I have come back to the international scene with a fierce rival in Phil Tufnell , with Ian Salisbury breathing down our necks and Hampshire 's young Sean Udal making great strides every season . |
| 3 | The devilish smile , oblique and sharp as a scar , had come back to the gaunt face . |
| 4 | We had come back like the full circle of our route , intact . |
| 5 | An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand . |
| 6 | Bertha had sat back with the satisfied air of having played a trump card , until suddenly her lip had quivered as tears filled her eyes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When the penis is stimulated by touch , the " feeling message " is carried back to the spinal cord at the sacral level from which the nerves emerge . |
| 9 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But they were pegged back in the 41st minute when John Bumstead scored with a diving header from Scott Minto ’ s centre . |
| 12 | The dark green sun umbrella above them threw shadows across Guy 's face , but she realised that the teasing gleam had crept back into the narrowed gaze . |
| 13 | Most of their funds were lent back to the personal sector . |
| 14 | There is a phase preceding death — perhaps moments before , perhaps even as much as a year before — when the individual life seems to dissolve and to begin to be absorbed back into the collective life . |
| 15 | There is no shortage of information on this and the more general tensions between NATO and the Warsaw Pact , which all dated back to the immediate aftermath of the Second World War , when crisis succeeded crisis : Greece , Berlin , Korea , Cuba , Viet Nam , the Horn of Africa , Angola , Central America , Afghanistan . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There had been for many years various organizations to co-ordinate Nonconformist work in both political and religious fields and the oldest bodies dated back to the previous century . |
| 19 | Assessment is likely to have educational value , however , only if the outcome is fed back to the senior house officer . |
| 20 | Discuss in or out of role — with the results of the discussion later fed back into the whole group . |
| 21 | Information gathered by these excursions into adjoining phases is thus fed back into the previous process in order to reinforce the adopted approach , modify it or cause its abandonment . |
| 22 | Information can then be fed back from the cognitive system to the logogen system to influence the response of this system to the word which is going to be misread . |
| 23 | ‘ What has happened is that we have been clawed back from the disastrous level of whitefish we started at to a position in line with the top end of scientific advice . ’ |
| 24 | This prevents any vibration caused by the cistern being filled from being transmitted back down the rising main . |
| 25 | It meant he had finally been accepted back into the Royal fold after being stripped of his OBE when he was jailed for tax evasion . |
| 26 | When the project is completed , the group members are transferred back to the basic structure , or they are given operating responsibility for the new product in a new unit . |
| 27 | After several days on the intensive care unit , Guy , still unconscious , was transferred back to the original hospital closer to his home . |
| 28 | Matters previous transferred from the High Court under s 42 may be transferred back to the High Court ( s 42(4) ) . |
| 29 | She said nothing , but only arched back against the soft leather , lost in the tantalising , agonising pleasure of his hands — a pleasure that lit a fire deep inside her , but did nothing to quench it . |
| 30 | At Key Stage 2 , with older pupils , the enquiry can easily be pushed back to the Victorian Age , when pupils are now faced with the " problem " that all the people who lived at that time are now dead . |