Example sentences of "back [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier this season , Haslemere might have collapsed at this stage , but they came back to equalise with the best goal of the game . |
| 2 | Putting the thoughts out of his head , he settled back to wait for the next people who could keep the Americans busy . |
| 3 | The mother shouted at one of the boys and he went back to sit in the small lorry . |
| 4 | The mining dispute , which had provoked the strike , continued from the end of April until November 1926 , when the miners and their families were effectively starved back to work despite the financial support of those unions affiliated to the TUC . |
| 5 | I just hoped that Tom would feel better about the situation when he came back to work in the New Year . |
| 6 | The wage agreement produced some drift back to work in the following days , but the strike held steady in the Kuzbass , Donbass and Vorkuta . |
| 7 | Almost 1 million people will be helped back to work in the coming year by employment and training programmes . |
| 8 | Phillipson has pointed to more direct state management of retirement , in order to regulate the size of the labour force , yet the well-known attempts by the government to induce retirees back to work after the Second World War were notable for their lack of success ; the reserve army of elderly labour was highly resistant to re-enlistment . |
| 9 | Cardiff pushed Jimmy and the girl called Barbara after them , turning back to look at the ragged aperture through which the storm was venting its fury . |
| 10 | She leant her painted face back to look at the two men standing at the sideboard , and it said much for George Banks who , turning to the old lady , said , ‘ I feel you would always be welcome in whatever company you choose , ma'am . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Robert had just taken over the Seconds , but was called back to play in the first team . |
| 12 | Relapse can be seen in changes of mood before it leads back to use of the addictive substance or behaviour . |
| 13 | She could feel the enchantment in the words , the song from thirteen years back doubling with the fierce bewitchment of the moment — her eyes were dulling , the smell of the sea overcoming her , her mind sinking away as if into deep water . |
| 14 | He did , however , come back to ride in the later races . |
| 15 | In the West African republic of Liberia where eighty five per cent of the population have been displaced , children , some as young as eight are being placed in secure compounds to prevent them from going back to fight for the waring factions . |
| 16 | She did see the yachtsman as she trekked back to start on the long walk home , and she went towards him . |
| 17 | Reptiles and amphibians use a three-chambered heart , where blood goes into a separate part of the atrium on its way to the muscles , but the blood on its way back empties into the same ventricle . |
| 18 | She said : ‘ After one of his trips to Highgrove he came back raving about the solid gold service . |
| 19 | As the few survivors brought word of the defeat back to Ulthuan , panic back to spread among the High Elves . |
| 20 | Needless to say , Roebuck underwent another ankle operation in December and hopes to be back playing by the first Sydney competition match for Eastwood against defending champions Randwick in April . |
| 21 | I allowed my eyes to travel slowly up the length of the chimney breast , tilting my head back to take in the upper reaches , and my hat fell off . |
| 22 | David called Mick Ronson and Woody Woodmansey ( after making ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , they had returned to Hull where they lived ) and invited them back to prepare for the next album , ‘ Hunky Dory ’ . |
| 23 | It is a curious miscellany , where photographs of his early ballets are mixed in with family snap-shots , pictures of his friends , souvenirs of journeys , Christmas and other greetings , a book of clothing coupons from the days of rationing , costume drawings and various illustrations cut from magazines , including a feature on Roland Petit 's ballet Carmen and examples of the ‘ new look ’ in women 's clothes when long skirts came back to fashion for the first time since the war ; he proposed a ballet about that , but it was rejected . |