Example sentences of "[noun] back [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've cut it down and agreed I pay the arrears back at a pound a week . |
| 2 | Us poor workers then had the even trickier job of turning the christmas grotto back into a living room ! |
| 3 | Cut all main branches back to a few inches long and for each prepare 2–3 scions of the new variety as for whip and tongue grafting , but trim their bases to a long wedge shape . |
| 4 | ‘ Wonderful weather , Lady Deverill ! ’ the young man called to his victim as he cantered through the iron gates and reined his horse back to a walk . |
| 5 | The National Railway Museum will set the family purse back by a similar sum . |
| 6 | According to Melbourne Sunday Press reporter Dennis Williams , the paper interviewed a hypnotist , Mr Bill Bakha , who claimed to have taken Kylie back to a former life as a waif called Caitrin in 19th century Ireland . |
| 7 | True Confessions in 1981 was an attempt at getting my stage nerve back after a disastrous premature version of Blood and Ice , my first try at a real play , went on in the studio of the Belgrade Theatre , Coventry ( ‘ I 'd rather be at the dentist — Birmingham Evening News ’ ) . |
| 8 | Drove that bloody great car back like a good 'un . ’ |
| 9 | Erm the managing director in front of Mr erm said to me , It wo n't affect your wages but what we will ask is that you give the company car back until a period of time that your wife passes a test in which case it can be given to your wife as indeed managerial status Mr . |
| 10 | Dismore back with a faultless ride |
| 11 | Then , once the revs increase above 4000 , the valve opens to link all six air intakes and turn the separate units back into a straight six engine . |
| 12 | He lifted the oars and began to pull at them again , digging heavily into the water to his right , bringing the boat back onto a straight course . |
| 13 | The execution time of a RISC cycle is given by the time it takes to read a register , perform an ALU operation , and store the result back into a register . |
| 14 | Sensors in refrigerators , chillers and freezers send temperature data back to a central unit which can take information from up to 20 locations at a time . |
| 15 | That would probably do little to bring so-called advances on royalties back to a more sensible level , but it might give the publisher some added stability , and therefore a greater incentive to put sustained effort into an author 's career . |
| 16 | When I was about twelve she told me how she 'd " flung " a sixpenny piece back at a titled woman who 'd given it her as a tip : " If you ca n't afford any more than that Madam , I suggest you keep it . " |
| 17 | For his best , he chooses the buying back of a company at a bargain price . |
| 18 | This story took my mind back to a survey on driving that was published a while ago on the differences between men and women behind the wheel . |
| 19 | But at least it had the effect of setting Lucy 's mind back on a more even keel , and she worked steadily until she was disturbed by Doreen sweeping into the office . |
| 20 | Fig 85 Maui Mayer from Hawaii performing a cut back in a World Cup wave riding event . |
| 21 | Roland drew his breath in minor shock : Maud said , ‘ Oh , the dolls ’ — and Sir George brought his light back from a blank mirror entwined with gilded roses and focused it on the three rigid figures , semi-recumbent under a dusty counterpane , in a substantial if miniature four-poster bed . |
| 22 | Endill had been dragging an ironing-board back from a room where everything was half buried in the floor when , turning a corner , he bumped into a tall thin man who had appeared from nowhere . |
| 23 | Related to this is Brunner 's objection that he led theology back into a ‘ false objectivism ’ , the complaint we shall later find Reinhold Niebuhr making that he does not take the challenge and struggle of Christian life sufficiently seriously , and the widespread feeling that he seeks to approach theology , and especially christology , ‘ from above ’ , from the side of God , whereas today we must work ‘ from below ’ , from ‘ the man Jesus ’ and ‘ the human situation ’ . |
| 24 | All this led Barth back to a closer reading of the Bible , and especially of Paul . |
| 25 | It may be that the round tombs are a reference back to a very ancient and primitive type of house , long-since abandoned except for tomb architecture , or they may be an exotic , a design imported from a foreign land where both tombs and houses were round . |
| 26 | It could , for example , refuse to hand a child back to a drunk parent but the child 's continued detention against parental wishes would have to be authorised by court order as soon as possible . |
| 27 | Eastern winds have brought what had been fair sport back to a normal level for the time of year . |
| 28 | Gray and Wilcock ( 1981 ) trace the attitude back to a Royal Commission on the Poor Law in 1909 , but no doubt it is much older than this . |
| 29 | ‘ Agony , ’ he grated , depositing a dripping ice cube back into a cold drink and handing it to her . |
| 30 | Eisler traces our prehistoric origins back to a goddess-worshipping people , for whom ‘ feminine ’ values of nurturing and sharing were revered , and who based their relationships on partnership rather than domination . |