Example sentences of "[noun] back [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I say , nowadays I get the information from you over the phone , and then when we 've got somebody who said Oh no , it 's only a small flat , I 've got this this and this and that 's the big pieces of furniture , er if it 's somebody that 's done it on spec I say Well look give me a ring back in an hour if er when you 've come off the phone you er there 's something you 've forgotten . |
| 2 | At last , in an effort to bring her mind back to an even keel , she went to the office , where she discovered a pile of farm accounts had been left on the desk . |
| 3 | He seemed to jerk his mind back with an effort , swearing under his breath at his lapse of concentration . |
| 4 | But do n't be tempted to force the foreskin back in an effort to stretch it — you might find that the tight band gets caught behind the head of the penis , impeding the blood flow and making the head of the penis swell alarmingly ( paraphimosis ) . |
| 5 | Hilary , 48 , of Bath , Avon , won £8,000 compensation and her old job back at an industrial tribunal earlier this year , after a 15-month battle . |
| 6 | The lower jawbone continues through both the North and South Islands of New Zealand until it reaches the ‘ chin ’ , then begins a slow doubling back along an unseen series of mid-oceanic ridges that curve through the roaming forties , become the back of Pac-Man 's skull and turn back up towards warmer water , surfacing briefly as Easter Island and the pinnacles of Sala y Gomez , and joining the scalp and the hairline at the Mexican coast , Baja California and the west coasts of America , Canada and , finally , Alaska once more . |
| 7 | Many patients with severe chemical sensitivity trace their problems back to an incident of this sort . |
| 8 | Now the rather depressing side of football pools as you only get twenty eight pounds in the hundred pounds back in an overall figure . |
| 9 | Germans out to put World Cup build-up back on an even keel Mike Chisholm reports on the mood of the opposition as they approach the match at Ibrox |
| 10 | It had looked as if Robert Palmer was getting Digital Equipment Corp back onto an even keel , but now comes cause for great concern . |
| 11 | It had looked as if Robert Palmer was getting Digital Equipment Corp back onto an even keel , but now comes cause for great concern : too many companies decide that if the product is having a tough time in the market , the answer is to change the packaging , and DEC is tarting up its famous lower-case ‘ digital ’ logo , which has stood the company in excellent stead since 1957 ; the updated logo features ‘ a more contemporary typeface and slight modifications to the spacing of the design 's blocks ’ , and the white letters now appear on a burgundy background instead of the traditional blue — and we hope the company gets some very tough questioning at the annual meeting over the cost . |
| 12 | In a decision which surprised MPs and investors , the Trade Secretary , Mr Nicholas Ridley , told the Commons that the bulk of the 18,000 investors are to get nearly 90 per cent of their money back in an unprecedented state payout . |
| 13 | I suppose he thought I was exaggerating the danger and he 'd show how tough he was , so he moved his chair back about an inch . |
| 14 | Therefore the DECELERATE signal is applied to the phase sequence generator , which shifts the phase sequence back by an appropriate number of steps . |
| 15 | erm There are one or two people who have just begun to identify a faint movement back into an increase in numbers , but over very many years you can know pretty well exactly where you are as far as the total number of pupils you have to provide for is concerned , and therefore , in that sense , the system can plan its resources for a known population . |
| 16 | Interestingly , in the light of increasing central ‘ controls ’ during the late 1970s and the 1980s , Alexander ( 1982b , p. ix ) , in what could be interpreted as a swing back towards an agency model approach , argues that there has been a ‘ decline in the autonomy and independence of local government … [ which ] constitutes a threat to the nature of our democracy and to the sensitivity and effectiveness of our public services ’ . |
| 17 | Hang the curtains by inserting one curtain hook into each glider on track or pole and draw the curtains back into an open position . |
| 18 | He painted not the general , but the particular ; not the nude , but the naked , thus bringing sex back in an especially embarrassing way . |
| 19 | David is determined to breathe life back into an estate nursery that was once one of the finest in Gloucestershire . |
| 20 | The individual is motivated to change the situation back to an equitable one . |
| 21 | Does your garden back onto an alley or road ? |
| 22 | Teachers who have themselves learnt English as a foreign language may cast their minds back to an earlier stage in their own development ; experience of learning other languages may also provide some help . |
| 23 | In any case she had not expected that her role in the assessment would be limited to receiving information back from an EWO : ‘ We did n't ask for it [ the assessment ] — it was the education system who said it should be done — if I accept them into my home I do n't expect them to disappear for twelve months , if they invited themselves in . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Can you really turn the mileage back with an electric drill ? ’ young Michael asked . |
| 25 | Usually , he took a walk in the evenings , going down Kennington Park Road as far as the Oval , and dropping into a pub on the way back for an ale and a chat with any friends or acquaintances he found there . |
| 26 | But it was Johnson who so nearly turned the game in the second period as Giants clawed their way back from an aggregate deficit of 16 points at 46-37 behind . |
| 27 | Hirst faces a race against time to be fit for England 's friendly in Spain next month after still feeling his way back from an Achilles tendon injury . |
| 28 | Anyway , even if one wanted to , one could n't put the clock back to an earlier age . |
| 29 | Desperately she tried to get the conversation back on an impersonal footing . |
| 30 | But , in the main , westerners fear a spell in the east will mean a kink in their careers , or that life will be too grey ( ‘ not even a decent pub ’ , groaned one civil servant back from an eastern town he decided not to work in ) . |