Example sentences of "[vb pp] back in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd better come back in the house and dry your shoes and socks , ’ said Betty . |
| 2 | Mr. Ibrahim Sadek , an Egyptian engineering consultant , lays the blame on the lack of unleaded fuel and to state production of outdated car engines : ‘ We are producing Fiats with engines designed back in the Forties ’ , he told the World Conference on Preparing for Climatic Change which ended in Cairo yesterday . |
| 3 | Most spreadsheets were designed back in the days when 640KBytes was the maximum amount of memory that was available . |
| 4 | One driver told the interviewer : ‘ I 'm always thinking that they 're sat back in the office thinking ‘ Where has he got to ’ , and it puts you on edge so I always drive faster in a company car because time is against me . ’ |
| 5 | When I was tipped back in the dentist 's chair |
| 6 | Well they can be tipped back in the tin then ca n't they ? |
| 7 | Bye-laws 17 , 18 , and 22 deal with back-siphoning : wherever a cold water supply is connected to a flexible hose , the law insists that the tap or outlet is fitted with a non-return valve to prevent contaminating liquids being sucked back in the mains system by any loss of pressure . |
| 8 | But they were pegged back in the 41st minute when John Bumstead scored with a diving header from Scott Minto ’ s centre . |
| 9 | This house was first built back in the 1890s as a residence for the local missionary . |
| 10 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 11 | The next psychological breakpoint is the 1,000dpi mark which was the point at which digital phototypesetting began to be accepted back in the late 60s and through the 70s . |
| 12 | In conclusion , although it is difficult to foresee the tide of interest and activity being turned back in the NHS , and a majority of DGMs believe that the new system has already delivered quality improvements ( Appleby et al. |
| 13 | Midfielder Scott Sellars was sold to Blackburn for £35,000 and was bought back in the summer for £750,000 . |
| 14 | Before that the village 's only successful days had occurred back in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when it was a centre of the Basque whaling trade . |
| 15 | My husband gave me the news that my father had died back in the village . |
| 16 | Dunwoody was surprised when the judge called him the winner on Remittance Man in the opening Bristol Novice Hurdle , believing Peter Scudamore had got back in the final strides on the favourite Regal Ambition after being headed halfway up the run-in . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't suppose Mr Trumper will expect you to be there every morning at four thirty , ’ she laughed ‘ Just until he 's got back in the swing of things . |
| 18 | It is a highly successful adaptation of an advertisement which was first shown back in the early 1980s in Britain . |
| 19 | Although all staff will have been through a thorough central basic training course ( see Chapter 6 ) much additional training and supervision is still needed back in the bureau . |
| 20 | Sandwiches had been sold back in the Store 's Food Hall . |
| 21 | Ace 's finger remained clamped down on the trigger even after all seven bullets had gone and the slide had locked back in the ‘ empty ’ position . |
| 22 | When this sterling is used to pay for UK exports and is then deposited back in the banks by the exporters , credit will be created on the basis of it , leading to a multiplied increase in money supply . |
| 23 | If you use an equaliser during your video editing sessions , carefully check the effect of each adjustment as you go , by monitoring the sound over a loudspeaker ( headphones may not give a true impression of how the tone corrections will sound when played back in the normal way ) . |
| 24 | The words sounded hollow when played back in the emptiness of the flat , like an extract from a vacuous , romantic novel . |
| 25 | Housing was the first of the public sector programmes to be tied back in the 1960s . |
| 26 | Though the backgrounds of the successful ironmongers were varied , nearly all their families can be traced back in the neighbourhood to the sixteenth century , either through a direct line or through marriage . |
| 27 | The dismantling of the Via dei Fori Imperiali and the creation of an archaeological park is an idea that was floated back in the days of Napoleonic occupation . |
| 28 | As it turned out , the principal had caught the other boys , and they were all being marched back in the front door of the school , but Mouse did n't know that . |
| 29 | The data can then be analysed or altered and placed back in the database . |
| 30 | The fish was revived by being placed back in the water , and literally given an underwater lip-to-lip kiss of life … |