Example sentences of "back [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I never seen anybody come back for a second dose of the blue , ’ said a man behind her , for all the world as though he were safe reminiscing in some bar of his old age . |
| 2 | His second-in-command re-divided the men and sent them back for a second search of the places they had searched before . |
| 3 | He would be back in the first week of July and at home all month until they went to Scotland for the opening of the grouse shooting season on the twelfth . |
| 4 | It first comes back in the first line of verse three when the tourists are being described as ‘ clucking contentedly ’ . |
| 5 | With a bit of luck he 'll be back in the next couple of weeks . |
| 6 | Looking back over the first decade of his regime , in a radio broadcast made to mark the tenth anniversary of the end of the Civil War , Franco crowed , |
| 7 | They 're coming back on the first Wednesday of next month with a bus load of about forty Women 's Institute members — ’ She broke off as she realised he was staring at her in horror . |
| 8 | THEY , I predict , will fall back on the last line of defence . |
| 9 | If you go back erm or let's go back to the second half of the seventeenth century , that 's always a good time to go to erm when erm well it was just after the English revolution , just after the English civil war , the Charles the First had been executed . |
| 10 | students of bones , a jocose reference back to the first description of Mrs Podsnap ( OMF i 2 ) as a ‘ fine woman for Professor Owen , quantity of bone , neck and nostrils like a rocking horse … |
| 11 | Under hypnosis she was taken back to the first day of her stay in hospital — the day before the operation itself . |
| 12 | First the next coupon payment is added to ( 8.8 ) and then the whole sum is discounted back to the first day of the delivery month . |
| 13 | We have to look back to the first quarter of 1988 to see a time when construction output was so low . |
| 14 | We have to go back to the first quarter of 1986 to see such a low figure for construction output per person in the past decade . |
| 15 | ‘ Josephinism ’ in religious matters , again , it is now clear , had behind it a long tradition extending back to the first years of the century . |
| 16 | Presumably such militias date back to the last years of the Roman period , although there is no evidence for them in the fifth century . |