Example sentences of "[adv] back [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'd half-learned several languages on my travels , and somehow they each floated familiarly back at the first step on to the matching soil . |
| 2 | If you are unlucky and suffer a bad frost-burn , be prepared to prune the stems further back to the next dormant eye , whatever its direction , and whatever the date . |
| 3 | But he seems to have succeeded in executing a ragged but effective withdrawal , hesitating and equivocating his way back at the last session until night fell over the battlefield . |
| 4 | Well we have yes , but some of those that have gone seem to be clawing their way back at the last minute erm Longeaton look to be saved again at very last knockings erm so of course Eastbourne has gone . |
| 5 | The history of this property dates way back to the 13th century , but it was in the 19th century , that a nobleman came here and , for his wife , rebuilt the castle on the 13th century ruins . |
| 6 | Domesday Book shows that way back in the eleventh century Pocklington was the centre of a large royal manor containing a church and three water mills and that its inhabitants included fifteen burgesses . |
| 7 | Well a way back in the last century they they had to go looking for a life a living elsewhere because of the poverty of the place . |
| 8 | Hutton had in fact summarised the principles of natural selection in unpublished manuscript notes way back in the 18th century . |
| 9 | The economy and marketing had been based on barter from way back in the fourth century , so this was not new . |
| 10 | Buzzing his curving chinaman ( googly ) , appealing alternately softly and urgently , bustling quickly back for the next one , and batting with great vigour ( he hit 166 sixes for his grade club ) , Martin was eventually chosen for NSW in 1956–57 . |
| 11 | ‘ So I 'd have to pay for both lots when I bought them , even if I put one straight back into the next auction ? ’ |
| 12 | Far from being just another Rolls-Royce clone with winged ‘ B ’ badges , the Mulsanne went straight back to the first act where raw performance and driving reward shared equal billing with cossetting comfort and refinement . |
| 13 | Mike Sadler was flown straight back to the Eighth Army and assigned the task of navigating the New Zealand Division around the south of the Mareth line , while Cooper was able to enjoy the pleasures of Constantine with an old friend , Reg Seekings , who had made his way through after the B Squadron attacks on the road . |
| 14 | He was not amused , although I think his pride was hurt more than anything else , but he did move his chair this time — right back into the second row ! |
| 15 | down here the fir , eighth year parents into the sixth of July and judging , working back from weeks that we 'll need to collect information it could bring you right back into the twelfth |
| 16 | The rivalry between these two , which went far back into the seventeenth century , was ended only by an agreeement of 1790 . |
| 17 | If we resist the temptation to place the factory system too far back into the eighteenth century and consider the factory mode alongside other prior and parallel methods of manufacturing , it seems hard to deny that there was something of a supply-side response to an increase in demand . |
| 18 | Its lineage reaches back , via the accusations against the Hollywood ‘ talkies ’ and the earliest silent movies , through and beyond the Music Halls at the turn of the century when directly similar complaints were voiced , towards the cheap theatres and penny-gaffs of early Victorian England when it was commonly alleged that the portrayal of the daring exploits of Jack Sheppard and Dick Turpin caused young people to imitate their crimes , and then back towards the eighteenth century 's disapproval of popular amusements such as fairs , interludes , public shows and minor theatres . |