Example sentences of "a [noun sg] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We skirted the artificial Llys y-fran reservoir and chose a route back on the tiny lanes which connect the farms . |
| 2 | They , they needed a , a sort of a , a set of more radical policies to , to get full mobilization and it 's out of that that the outline agrarian law comes , and then they realize the mistakes of that and there 's a , there 's a pull back to the right so it 's , it 's that kind of move to the left and then back to the right . |
| 3 | Right and they did n't get a license back to the second war . |
| 4 | It was a revue back in the thirties . |
| 5 | You would be totally unaffected by it , okay , now there is one way that you might think camp ons are quite strange , and that is , if you 've got a camp on on , right , and somebody 's engaged , but they 're engaged for longer than 75 seconds , you get a ring back , but you do n't get a successful ring back , you get a ring back of the same long , say 2 and a half seconds , it might ring engaged , okay , if the person 's still engaged . |
| 6 | The perhaps inevitable consequences were accumulating losses and a withdrawal back to the protected home market . |
| 7 | The volatile Scot , currently on a month 's loan to Birmingham City after being transfer-listed by Southampton , lines up against Newcastle with an eye on a move back into the Premier League . |
| 8 | Morrissey , still the object of scorn for his apparently traiterous move to London , was considering a move back to the plush surrounds of Hale Barns ( home of many a former Manchester City player ) in Cheshire . |
| 9 | Despite the bid costs , Amstrad was able to report a bounce back into the black for the six months to December . |
| 10 | Mr Cairns , a former Ulster teacher now lecturing in Japan who is home on a study project , said : ‘ They went for a meal to McDonalds and when the girls said they would take a taxi back to the Young Women 's Christian Association the boys told them not to take a black taxi because they were too expensive . |
| 11 | Okay , so a whole of things to think about , certainly for the role plays tomorrow but , indeed , for a situation back in the real world . |
| 12 | It started out as a means of protecting Parliamentary privilege and was probably first stated as a principle back in the 18th century by Willes J in Millar v Taylor . |
| 13 | FINDING A WAY BACK TO THE BIG COUNTRY |
| 14 | The Royal Theatre 's modest exterior belies the gorgeously decorated auditorium — like a trip back to the Victorian heyday of Theatre . |
| 15 | If it 's something funky and soulful you seek , I suggest a trip back to the Seventies . |
| 16 | Klinsmann pulled a goal back in the 66th minute and Andreas Moeller scored the second 10 minutes from time . |
| 17 | Portugal pulled a goal back in the 56th minute when Fernando Couto headed in a corner from Paulo Futre but Italy wrapped up the game when Dino Baggio scored with a powerful 25-yard shot in the 73rd minute . |
| 18 | He fled via Linlithgow to Dunbar and ignominiously took a rowing-boat back to the English border at Berwick . |