Example sentences of "back [prep] the first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It first comes back in the first line of verse three when the tourists are being described as ‘ clucking contentedly ’ . |
| 3 | 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 , |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | Under hypnosis she was taken back to the first day of her stay in hospital — the day before the operation itself . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We have to look back to the first quarter of 1988 to see a time when construction output was so low . |
| 8 | 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 . |