Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] back [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It looks just like smalltown America — the kind of place where you could set Twin Peaks or Back To The Future 4 — but it 's bigger . |
2 | It looks just like smalltown America — the kind of place where you could set Twin Peaks or Back To The Future 4 — but it 's bigger . |
3 | Some boarding schools charge up to £10,000 per annum so its little wonder that a rising number of children are being taken away and placed in cheaper day schools or back into state schools . |
4 | If nothing is readily available you find yourself trying to thaw out the cheesecake from the bottom of the freezer ( nobody will miss it , will they ? ) , or working out how long it will take you to get to the shops and back with a bag-full of goodies . |
5 | He only goes to the shops and back on it . |
6 | One takes me along St Mary 's Villas and Barrowclough Road , past the old municipal baths and the new DIY and wholesale paint centre ; while the other means cutting down Lennox Gardens , taking that street whose name I always forget into Rumsey Road , then past the row of shops and back into the High Street . |
7 | Virgin took its tone from Richard 's unkempt appearance , his apparent indifference to material luxuries , the fact that his money went not towards Savile Row suits or extravagant limousines but back into the company . |
8 | More probable is a trade sale to existing mining companies or back to the generating companies , which is quite a common practice in the rest of the world . |
9 | They then fought their way past the Dark Elf patrols and back to the Inner Sea . |
10 | ‘ Well , when you use a vibrato bar guitar , when you hit the strings really hard , a lot of the vibration gets transferred to the springs and back into the bar in a sort of flutter and I really do n't like that sound at all . |
11 | Combat gear should stay out of clubs and back on squaddies and serial killers |
12 | Ecotopia turns its back on the capitalist treadmill of material progress-not by a return to pre-industrial forms and back to nature " but by developing a " high-tech " society that is designed to be compatible with the biosphere . |
13 | And then home for five weeks and back for another two weeks . |
14 | We had to go from the School to the School for two years and back to the School again , and er finally we 'd go to the Academy . |
15 | I used the analogy of a family that goes from rags to riches and back to rags in three or four generations . |
16 | Her pulses quickened as she ran her hand delicately along his collarbone , over his biceps and back to his chest . |
17 | Many of the vehicles saved in the 1940s and 50s , were being passed on to museums or back to private ownership , as interest was revived during the late 1960s . |
18 | People ran from the blocks to the lavatories and back with pinched faces and sat in their rooms wishing they had saved a little coal . |
19 | It takes two movements to operate the lace carriage , once to the right to transfer stitches then back OR once to the right to prepare and then back transferring stitches on the return to the left , leaving the main carriage clear to work two rows ; across , to place loops in empty needles and back to the right knitting all the stitches . |
20 | At the beginning of his translation , Mannyng appeals to the reader : His vivid description of the Crucifixion both stresses Christ 's willingness — he climbs the ladder to mount the cross , then turns at the top , laying himself vulnerable and open as he stretches out his arms and back against it — and rams home the shock of pain as the nails are driven in . |
21 | She popped through hatchways into alleys and back into ducts again . |
22 | I would prefer to have a concrete base , sides and back to these tanks , but wonder how to seal the front viewing glass . , . |
23 | Khaur and Danjit simply propelled her — Jezrael could hardly walk , so massive was her state of shock — out of the wintry night fields and back to their depot , leaving Ember 's body lonely in the cold . |
24 | Also offering advice if we felt qualified to do so but referring to the relevant health services or back to her if not . |
25 | Er reimbursement for expenses so petrol , postages that sort of thing , but the time of running around you ca n't get back , which is one of the factors that back to the old Which magazine they never deal with this say yes you can deal with it and I read some person that says it only took me forty hours , yes forty hours at legal rates , well that would be a big bill . |
26 | If the leader then mentions her ‘ shopping basket ’ all the team gets up , runs around the chairs and back to their seats . |
27 | Out went a Tropicana which was soon joined by about fifty free offerings and back on the buzzer the rod went while I returned to my seat . |
28 | The water was pumped back to the pond through two central heating circulators — one through a venturi and the other to the small header pools and back via a cascade . |
29 | 2.40:LEADING northern hurdler Coulton gained all his successes last term over two and a half miles and back over the minimum I fancy HALKOPOUS to beat him . |
30 | I went back in and out again , done more crimes and back in again . |