Example sentences of "then [vb pp] back [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the cat was successful it was rewarded with food and then placed back inside the box . |
| 2 | The hemiplegic leg is then lifted back to the floor , the trouser leg is pulled a little further up the thigh , and anchored in place by the patient crossing his unaffected leg over it . |
| 3 | These worms have a similar food-gathering strategy to the more familiar filter-feeding tubeworms , but instead of the feathery heads of fanworms have long , sticky tentacles which they wave in the current or drag over the substrate in search of food particles which are then carried back to the mouth as the tentacles are drawn in . |
| 4 | A high-pass filter was used to isolate the local ( high-frequency ) variation which was then added back to the image so that the local component was effectively doubled , thus amplifying or exaggerating its importance . |
| 5 | This is always agreed to and the Bill is then reported back to the House . |
| 6 | They are cooled by water taken from the river Yenisey , which is then discharged back into the river , in contravention of recently-passed environmental legislation . |
| 7 | The water then passes to a coil in the indirect solar cylinder , and is then pumped back to the bottom of the solar panel . |
| 8 | Interactionists made much of how such variations could lead to a ‘ deviancy amplification spiral ’ : if the public ( informed by the media of rises in the criminal statistics ) believes crime to be on the increase and more of a problem they may be more sensitive to it , report more to the police who will then record more and therefore produce a further rise in recorded crime , which is then fed back to the public by the media , and so on ( see Wilkins , 1964 ; and Young , 1971 ) . |
| 9 | This collective picture is then reflected back to the sufferer with the recommendation that he or she finds out whether his or her contemporaries in treatment observe the same picture . |
| 10 | The first part of the right-hand side of ( 6.38 ) is the present value of dividends during the supernormal growth stage , while the second part is the present value of the share in year T ( at the end of the supernormal growth phase and assuming constant growth thereafter ) , which is then discounted back to the present . |
| 11 | This involves recording one line of music ( the ‘ backing ’ or ‘ rhythm ’ track ) , which is then played back to the musician while a second line is added . |
| 12 | The disgraced soldier was then dragged back into the glare of publicity last November when the Attorney General successfully challenged her sentence as ‘ unduly lenient ’ . |
| 13 | Crookes was thus very important in preparing the way for the ‘ discovery ’ of the electron by J. J. Thomson in 1897 , in an experiment in which cathode rays were deflected by a magnetic field , and then brought back to the zero point by an electric field . |
| 14 | And , yes , I saw the incident at Southampton , where Mark Nicholas was eventually given out to a disputed close catch and then brought back to the crease . |
| 15 | He played only once in that series but was then brought back for the rubber in India and made a big impact , so that when he had Steele 's wicket at Headingley he chalked up his hundredth Test wicket in the record time of two years 144 days . |
| 16 | There had been a light snowfall the previous night but it looked as if someone else had been here , visited the witch then gone back to the line of trees , covering their tracks by using a switch of old branches so no imprint could be seen . |
| 17 | These values were then converted back to the pH scale . |
| 18 | The material was then taken back to the laboratory , where the real work was undertaken and is still going on . |
| 19 | Similarly , if the London users want to enquire on the data , they initiate the enquiry on their local computer in the usual way , but behind the scenes the computer sends a message to its counterpart in New York asking for the data , which is then passed back across the network to be displayed on the enquirer 's screen . |
| 20 | It is then passed back into the mouth , chewed again , and returned to the rearward locations for further digestion . |
| 21 | It passes through a sponge where mechanical and biological filtration takes place , and is then passed back onto the water . |
| 22 | The living turtle is then thrown back into the water , in the mistaken belief that it will re-grow its shell . |
| 23 | All too often , banks are even repaid twice : once in interest , and again with loans smuggled out of poor countries then re-cycled back to the North by corrupt Third World elites anxious to secure personal fortunes . |
| 24 | He had used the rest buying drinks to console himself and had then staggered back to the flat for the night . |