Example sentences of "[vb base] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Descend and head back into the forest going south-west then south to post 21 . |
| 32 | Finally , head back towards the Duomo , passing on the way two interesting palazzi . |
| 33 | An attack would have been tantamount to committing suicide , so reluctantly Stirling gave orders to leave the town and head back for the rendezvous with the LRDG . |
| 34 | I 've had enough of the lights , so we turn round and head back to the house . |
| 35 | Outside the venue , the Inspirals climb into their cramped tour van and head back to the hotel exuding quiet satisfaction . |
| 36 | Here they spend the next 5 months until the short rains in November when they gradually form columns and head back to the shortgrass plains . |
| 37 | Ranulf sprang up , pleased to abandon the fresh air of the country and head back to the seamy streets of London and the rounded pleasure-giving body of Mistress Semplar . |
| 38 | We head back to the apartment only when the day folds in around us for good . |
| 39 | He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience . |
| 40 | He tried unsuccessfully to sniff back the tears as he watched Yanto race back towards the docks . |
| 41 | The digested sludge is dried in open pits and then put back into the pigs ' feed in a proportion of one part to 10 . |
| 42 | Where they do not exist it can be presumed that either the genuine silver-gilt coronet was used at the funeral and then put back into the strongroom after the funeral , or they have disintegrated . |
| 43 | The dormice are weighed and then put back into the nest . |
| 44 | And about the biggest problem today , that of unemployment what we have is nine thousand pounds put back into the the employment development fund . |
| 45 | What we have is nine thousand pounds put back into the employment development fund still leaving a cut . |
| 46 | and again because of the recession over there le learning English is , is one of the things that , you know , gets put , put back on the |
| 47 | They were piled haphazardly , some put back in the wrong sleeves , and were mainly recordings of Italian opera . |
| 48 | NO DRAUGHT COWL Prevent downdraught from blowing smoke back into the room with the new Eurocowl . |
| 49 | He had but three vessels left and despite urgent pleas from his men — now demoralized again , fretful once they realized another ship was gone — to abandon the voyage and sail back to the Guadalquivir , he pressed on north-westwards , passing through scenery of a wild grandeur and beauty he had never known before . |
| 50 | Tack into a gap once you have expended about half the time to the start from the buoy , then even if you sail back at the same speed , you can not be early . |
| 51 | She was still so entranced by the timeless atmosphere of their night-time sail back round the island that it was strange to hear Lucy 's familiar voice on the telephone that night . |
| 52 | We developed this very useful paddle stroke back in the days of long four metre GP kayaks . |
| 53 | Scrubby hawthorns hold back at the brink . |
| 54 | ‘ However well acted and directed they are , Americans find they hold back on the emotions . |
| 55 | Hold the tape measure loosely round the pulled back curtain and hold back against the hook . |
| 56 | I finish my tea and climb back into the Toyota . |
| 57 | At sunset , I climb back to the waterfall and wash my hair in the cold , clear water — a mundane chore elevated into sublime pleasure . |
| 58 | I replace the spare rounds in the small cardboard box , look around for where to put them , then slip them into my jacket pocket , and ease back into the comfortable armchair . |
| 59 | I ease back with the gun so he has room to move . |
| 60 | It will be argued in later chapters , for example , that processes within state enterprises act back upon the wider political context and modify its impact . |