Example sentences of "back through " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a scoop , and he fights his way back through wildernesses , road-blocks , threats of ambush , to inform Warsaw . |
| 2 | And gives movement to the arms of the scissors and so back through the sieves to the chariot and the moulds . |
| 3 | ‘ No , you ca n't ! ’ said Thomas , coming back through the baize door positively pink with self-importance . |
| 4 | It is an idea — the idea that the practice of our art should ideally be an avocation rather than a vocation — which has a distinguished and ancient lineage , to be traced back through the English bourgeois idea of ‘ the gentleman ’ to the Italian aristocratic idea of ‘ the courtier ’ . |
| 5 | These ‘ fireside ’ monologues emerge from an assortment of inter-related characters and jump back through time to poor white Adam , ( Nature 's mistake ) . |
| 6 | But then large portions of Jackson 's years as a recording artist have been spent picking back through complications he had no intention of creating . |
| 7 | Some of them straggled back through Taunton , and being in no hurry to get home settled down in the Floral Gardens , playing guitars and tambourines , smoking joints , dropping acid and chanting mantras . |
| 8 | And feeding back through that inversion is an equally scandalous interrogation of the dominant order being mimicked ; civil society is shown to be rooted in a like corruption . |
| 9 | Then Maggie followed the thread back through the atmosphere barrier . |
| 10 | As you drive , this NVH manifests itself in the form of tiny vibrations fed back through the steering wheel and the gruff , uninspiring sounds from the SE-FHE engine . |
| 11 | Wexford went back through the Cullam 's living room . |
| 12 | As the Welfare Officer drove back through the camp gates she was greeted by the smell of a well-smouldering barbecue and the news that the Greenfinch rounders team had lost heavily in a tournament at RAF AIdergrove . |
| 13 | Let us concentrate rather on the last sentence of the paragraph quoted and work our way back through the foregoing non sequiturs . |
| 14 | You ca n't save calculations , but you can track back through a chain of arithmetic , alter figures , and see the alterations reflected in the final sum . |
| 15 | McLeish asked Catherine as they walked back through St James 's Park . |
| 16 | McLeish flipped back through his notes . |
| 17 | These include mimicry of dolphin swimming patterns , showing feelings and spontaneous behaviour , responding to their signature whistles by talking back through snorkels , making eye contact , and responding to their gestures . |
| 18 | I join the queue that stretches back through three carriages , in pursuit of a warm can of Travellers ' Fare lager — the only substance known to man that leaves the body in exactly the same state as it entered . |
| 19 | If he could root back through the maze of moment and incident , would he find premonitory signs sticking out like dire figurations of chicken entrails ? |
| 20 | He flipped back through the book looking at his entries , neat , and pages of notes about the pheasants and the weather and the times he 'd been up there . |
| 21 | Then he hurried back through the wood , down the field and along the road past the stream . |
| 22 | She came back through the kitchen and gave him the torch . |
| 23 | My brother saw monkeys when he was coming back through Gibraltar . |
| 24 | ‘ So that we can flatten that Swire Sugden and post him back through his letter-box , ’ Otley said , crushing his bread roll into a poultice . |
| 25 | We turned back through the village again and up to Claro . |
| 26 | The slow dance was quickening , swirling them back and back through the darkening woods and stabbing gorse of memory to the sheep trying to escape the cold night and , beyond that , to the ways in which each of them , Forest girl and Forest boy , had first joined body with another . |
| 27 | He raked back through pages in his mind . |
| 28 | Praying that the links would n't catch on my clothes … in my knitted sweater … should have stripped … head under , metal lying on my face , push the links up with hands , full strength , take care , do n't rush , do n't snag clothes , get free of the jumble of things on the mud around me , hold onto the wire outside , do n't let go , the current in the river was appreciable , tugging , keep straight , hang on , shoulders through , raise the links , back through , bottom through , legs … links … short of breath … lungs hurting … careful , careful … unknown things round my ankles , hampering … had to breathe soon … feet catching … feet … through . |
| 29 | We were driven back through the nearly empty streets . |
| 30 | ‘ And she likes the house to stay just the same , ’ she remarked to Fru Gertlinger , as she swept back through the green-baize door for yet more toast , ‘ so she 's not going to object to the blue room being returned to its former colours . |