Example sentences of "back [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cornish celebrities of his acquaintance included John Couch Adams , discoverer of the planet Neptune , and Mary Kelynack , renowned as the lady who , at the age of eighty , walked from Newlyn to London and back to see the Great Exhibition of 1851 . |
| 2 | ‘ Yeah , I used to be able to play with the slide at the 12th fret and reach all the way back to hit the top string at the seventh fret with my first finger . |
| 3 | THE OAKLAND Athletics came back to win the first game of the best-of-seven American League championship series with a 7-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays , on Tuesday . |
| 4 | Amy bounced back to win the junior championship with a record number of points ( 239.05 ) . |
| 5 | A fictionalised countryside comes back to brighten the dark heart of the urban sprawl . |
| 6 | I stepped back to avoid the overpowering closeness of his face and a little man on the inner circle of the crowd startled me with a friendly smile , but I could not find him again when I looked for him . |
| 7 | He was only a boy , hardly out of drama school and scared stiff and , by the time he 'd pulled himself together and gone back to do the right thing by her , the girl had disappeared . |
| 8 | It had a plain glazed back to illuminate the upper deck at night and the lamps were removed from the hoops . |
| 9 | Neil , coming back to keep the promised watch on his house . |
| 10 | I have been in Paris for 4 days and just got back to read the 100 messages from the list ! |
| 11 | If so , stop , take your eyes off the book , take a deep breath , allow your face muscles to relax and then come back to read the next sentence with even keener interest but with less strain . |
| 12 | She stood back to watch the great man from behind and , in watching , became progressively more fidgety as she itched to comment on his alignment . |
| 13 | But then Boro boss Lennie Lawrence gambled with three men at the back and his team found true Teesside spirit battling back to snatch the crucial win against all the odds . |
| 14 | Leo , who 's a year older , fights back to take the next sprint by a length . |
| 15 | Some galleries are long , like those at Yew Tree and Monk Coniston , where a great ( or walking ) spinning wheel could be used , the spinner requiring space to draw her thread away from the great wheel and , turning , to reverse the wheel and walk back to wind the spun yarn on the bobbin . |