Example sentences of "back [adv] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sorted out old toys into boxes , got a few rolls of carpet and wallpaper back into their places from where they 'd fallen , pinned a couple of maps back on to the sloping wooden under-roof , cleared away some of the tools and bits and pieces that I 'd used to repair the Factory , and loaded the various sections of the Factory that needed to be loaded . |
| 2 | By May 3 up to 500 Moroccans were being turned back daily from the southern Spanish port of Algeciras as they attempted to enter before May 15 , when a visa became necessary for visitors who were citizens of Morocco , Algeria , Tunisia and Mauritania . |
| 3 | If that is excluded , then we come back down towards the twenty five hectares . |
| 4 | then wound back down by the parched red track |
| 5 | The novel represents an attempt to bring these two domains back together through the common discursive mode of narrative . |
| 6 | So next day I duly went to the synagogue , rather self-conscious in my trilby hat , surprised to find women sitting in the gallery only , much impressed with the singing of the cantor and the blowing of the ram 's horn , and a little taken aback by the quick exit at the end of the fast , presumably to get back home for the first square meal of the day . |
| 7 | ‘ I always , ’ he explains , ‘ had the feeling that I was taking the club back straight for the first two feet of the backswing but now I am taking it slightly inside . |
| 8 | At the surface of the milky-looking gas he paused , and looked back up at the three masked faces , conscious all the while of the increasing rhythm of his breathing . |
| 9 | So we 're meeting back here on the twenty fifth of April at two thirty . |
| 10 | Bought by Allan Clarke for 950,000 ( which was a LOT of money back then in the late 70's ) . |
| 11 | She struggled to get out , slipping and sliding on the bank , falling , when she felt she almost had purchase , back again into the disgusting weed-ridden swamp . |
| 12 | I could n't pick the fish up because they were slippery and eluded my grasp , and when I tried to stand up I 'd slip back again amongst the icy cold debris . |