Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adjusters reports should be carefully checked and any omissions or queries referred back to the Adjuster . |
| 2 | He had lost his watch back in Victorian London and so had no clear idea of time ; it may have taken minutes or hours to get back to the hole in time . |
| 3 | Links between sentences can to some extent be made explicit in a similar way , by using connectives such as therefore , thus , on the other hand , or words referring back to previous sentence ( Turner , 1973 ) . |
| 4 | Popularisations encourage a passive , armchair view of the discipline being popularised : the readers or viewers sit back while the canvas is unfolded before them . |
| 5 | At the commencement of the conversions the vehicles were lifted , and all parts of the underframes and bogies brought back to nominal new as for the standard LMSR coach . |
| 6 | Martin charging down on Dobson ; Martin , eyes glaring and lips drawn back in a feral snarl ; Martin , arm raised and baton coming down again and again on Dobson 's head ; Martin , growling savagely at the yobs , daring them to interfere ; Martin , turing angrily as the sergeant pulled the baton from his hand ; finally , Martin , white and shaking , as he looked down disbelievingly at the unconscious Dobson . |
| 7 | Subsequent reductions in government spending forced the LEA and schools to cut back . |
| 8 | Three sets of lights later , they came into the town centre , a wide boulevard that sloped up a hill with the shops and offices set back from the pavement . |
| 9 | PARISHIONERS and clergy looked back at the past year on Sunday when Headley 's annual vestry and parish meetings were held at the Church Centre . |
| 10 | We called for some fish and chips to take back for all of us , but I was n't sure that I could eat them after seeing that documentary where they all had ulcers . |
| 11 | The response is encrypted as it is sent , and responses come back faster than pre-PROFS . |
| 12 | He closed his eyes and smelt the meadowy air , the scents of mown grass and wildflowers brought back a flood of happy childhood memories . |
| 13 | Ficulle is a small town with ancient origins , which still retains some of its medieval walls and watchtowers dating back to the 13th century . |
| 14 | In the United States a national botanical garden was founded to exploit the seeds and plants brought back by a Pacific exploration expedition under Charles Wilkes in the years 1838–42 . |
| 15 | As defiant shoppers and workers flooded back into Manchester city centre yesterday , police rejected claims they herded hundreds of workers directly into the path of the second bomb . |
| 16 | FOR advertising agencies in the Republic , 1993 will be the toughest year for years , with little if any growth and margins trimmed back to the bone . |
| 17 | Milton 's God was Empson 's last book , in his lifetime , though when he died he was collecting at least three others : Using Biography ( 1984 ) , on Marvell , Dryden , Fielding , Yeats , Eliot and Joyce ; Essays on Shakespeare ( 1986 ) ; and a book of Renaissance essays , as well as a massive ragbag ( as he called it ) of papers and reviews dating back to the 1920s which , when it posthumously appeared as Argufying ( 1987 ) , was rapidly seen by many to be the finest critical miscellany in the language . |
| 18 | There was a sound of soft footsteps , of chains being loosened and bolts drawn back . |
| 19 | She 's also produced very kind of her erm , a questionnaire about the Royal Quays erm to take home to their parents and grandparents to bring back and about , probably get a couple of copies of that and then when they 've done that the seventh and fourteenth she 's going to , or we 're gon na select two pupils from each of the classes to go out with her , one group to go into the middle of North Shields |
| 20 | Queues of cars and lorries stretched back towards Gloucester for several miles — in the end police closed the road . |
| 21 | Rights and properties going back to a remote and undocumented past appeared to him to have a sanction which no later enactment — not even by the pope — could alter . |
| 22 | Donations to party coffers are drying up as bankruptcies rise and businesses cut back on unnecessary expense , depriving the Tories of their traditional support . |
| 23 | Chairs and tables pushed back , we used the rows of tiles on the floor to represent months , two tin cans to represent the original pair of rabbits and coloured wooden discs for the babies . |
| 24 | All our maypole queens , crown bearers and dancers look back on the ceremony with pride , and they still come back on the day . ’ |
| 25 | The exquisite decor is tasteful and includes many antiques and paintings dating back to the original period . |
| 26 | ‘ After the collisions the plates were able to adjust each time — fairly quickly it seems — and things went back to normal until something else came crashing in . ’ |
| 27 | The problem with environmental legislation of every kind is that , while we all applaud the intentions , we know automatically that the large-scale offenders have their own scientists , barristers , public-relations campaigns and representation in the House of Lords , that government inspectorates are hopelessly understaffed , and that consequently , at a local level , the enforcers concentrate their attention on the small fry who lack the time and resources to answer back . |
| 28 | Although ‘ real ’ life was now so often only fantasy and incomplete memories , there were moments when people , events , sights and sounds came back into sudden , sharp focus . |
| 29 | The Audencia Nacional ( National High Court ) on Oct. 11 , 1989 , sentenced ETA members José Antonio López Ruiz and José Miguel Latasa Guetaria " Fermín " to 42 years ' imprisonment each , and two others to 36 and 29 years , for attacks and murders dating back to 1984 . |
| 30 | All objectives had been overrun and counter-attacks thrown back . |