Example sentences of "[noun pl] and back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He only goes to the shops and back on it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They then fought their way past the Dark Elf patrols and back to the Inner Sea . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Combat gear should stay out of clubs and back on squaddies and serial killers |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And then home for five weeks and back for another two weeks . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I used the analogy of a family that goes from rags to riches and back to rags in three or four generations . |
| 11 | Her pulses quickened as she ran her hand delicately along his collarbone , over his biceps and back to his chest . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She popped through hatchways into alleys and back into ducts again . |
| 16 | I would prefer to have a concrete base , sides and back to these tanks , but wonder how to seal the front viewing glass . , . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If the leader then mentions her ‘ shopping basket ’ all the team gets up , runs around the chairs and back to their seats . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I went back in and out again , done more crimes and back in again . |
| 23 | ‘ It was two years ago , and is now , to produce non-inflationary growth in this country and to put people back into profit , back into jobs and back into prosperity in this country . |
| 24 | Fish have only a two-chambered heart , consisting of an atrium and a ventricle through which the blood passes on its way to the gills and back to the heart . |
| 25 | Now he looked down at the table top , then sideways at his colleagues and back at Cameron . |