Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] back " in BNC.

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1 At Kabrit in the meantime the L Detachment men were busily making ready for the departure back to Jalo , from where they were to head for Bouerat .
2 Then a selection of images were transferred across , ready for the trip back to Norwich .
3 If it feels easy to raise fresh equity from shareholders then dividend pay-outs will be high , for managers can easily ask for the money back again .
4 There is space at the waterfall for parking or a picnic , and here cars must be turned for the journey back to Dent .
5 When Henry V died in Normandy in 1422 mos teutonicus was employed , as it was thought that conventional embalming would not hold out for the journey back to England .
6 There must also have been a loop so that locomotives could run round their trains in order to be at the front for the journey back to Bishop 's Castle .
7 At the end of the day , two exhausted teams piled into cars for the drive back home from the skirmish site in Edinburgh .
8 John made a point of sitting in the front with Patrick for the drive back to London .
9 The Czechs were even stocking up with beer for the mess back home .
10 Day Five : Have an early breakfast then all too soon it will be time to catch the train back to the Hook of Holland for the crossing back to Harwich and onward rail journey to London , where your arrival time will be approximately 9 p.m .
11 With a gasp Chantal staggered backwards , reaching for the chair back to steady herself .
12 Chaillot is going to ask for the advance back . ’
13 The weather was better for the flight back along the north coast , and we got views of the 8,000-foot-plus Picos de Europa which we 'd missed on the way down .
14 ‘ Bribery and corruption , ’ Isobel said tartly , as she drew her sables more tightly around her , and they mounted the steps to Edouard 's plane for the flight back to Paris .
15 The discreet feelers that she put out during the drive back to Anduze met with monosyllabic replies that indicated , firmly but politely , that the matter was no concern of hers .
16 According to Mossop , Heather had been tight-lipped during the drive back to Weymouth .
17 During the journey back to Waterloo they continued their discussion .
18 They were both aware of the tense vibrations between them , and during the journey back to Tewkesbury both seemed determined to keep the conversation light and easy .
19 After the first landing and during the taxi back to the take-off point the thief would be dropped off .
20 Holcraft , having discovered his mistake while chatting to Sontag during the ride back to the hotel , had hurried off to find the other funeral directors .
21 They have chosen no-frills rugby as the way back up .
22 And via a now explicit association with anality , especially sodomy , homosexuality becomes a paradigm of sterility and solipsism , while heterosexuality is regarded as the way back to a dynamic , creative encounter with the other : in the woman the man embraces ‘ all that is not himself ’ and from that embrace ‘ comes every new action ’ ( quoted in Delany , Nightmare , 79 ) .
23 However there 's not too many of them from the dam as the section back to the car park is a tame ramble running through a clearing in the trees .
24 He did not remember much about the journey back to London except that he drove very fast .
25 Did I actually tell you last week about the feed back ?
26 On legs that moved numbly and automatically , she climbed the back stairs again and went through the kitchen back to the party .
27 ‘ I remember getting in the car and driving through the village back to the main road … but … nothing else . ’
28 Gripping the child 's arm , Aggie pulled her from the room and through into a hall and there she stood waiting , for she guessed that the women lined up like felons against the wall would now be led out to pay their fines at the desk in the corner , or be taken through the door back to the cells .
29 ‘ That 's him , ’ said Sergeant Comstock , looking down at the slow rivulets of storm-water trickling down out of clothing and hair to wind their way thankfully through the grass back to the river .
30 When I eventually got off the bus back in Maseru I nearly collapsed , such was my weakness .
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