Example sentences of "back [prep] the old [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On second thoughts I think it best to put it back in the old oak chest . |
| 2 | We 've , I do n't know if everyone 's worked the same system , but we 're back on the old appointment system . |
| 3 | She lost her balance and fell back on the old iron bedstead , pulling the old woman off her feet . |
| 4 | They always look back to the old smokestack industries . |
| 5 | We talked back and forth and eventually went back to the old Sun studio and did a few tracks down there . |
| 6 | at Christmas time 193 1 I had a table of gold , hoping that it might in some way draw us all back to the old gold standard again gold lame tablecloth , old white Mennecey china , many yellow roses . |
| 7 | CHAIRMAN Sir Peter Parker was doing his best , but the 1980s opened with much the same worries of insecurity over government policy , lack of investment , and working practices which harked back to the old company rules . |
| 8 | ‘ It goes back to the old OSS days and the crusade we were running against Hitler along with your SOE and Dot Tuckey and people like that . |
| 9 | It was an insult : they did n't need white nannies — did more than two black people in a room constitute a riot ? -were they to step back to the old plantation days ? — had Kinnock and Hattersley been drunk when they drafted the proposal ? |
| 10 | Elsewhere , like on ‘ Criminals ’ or ‘ Shaky Ground ’ , you get all the weird , unresolved chording that Michael Stipe favours , and a suitably battered vocal that reaches back to the old mountain music and forward to Dinosaur Jr , Lemonheads and Nick Cave . |
| 11 | Would I be able to change back to the old registration plates ? |
| 12 | Erm to , it 's really back to the old barter system . |
| 13 | However , the Mole was still held by Germans , and moving back to the Old Entrance Bob Ryder saw that somebody — a party from an ML ? |