Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UN flies bodies home THE BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen were flown home to Pakistan yesterday as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days ’ . |
| 2 | BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen in Mogadishu were flown home to Pakistan as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days . ’ |
| 3 | I attend the Assembly as a Member of this House and I should like the opportunity to report back to the House , during a proper debate , on what I am doing in the Council of Europe . |
| 4 | To enable researchers to report back on the results of recently completed research in the Scottish courts to an invited audience comprising the various branches of the legal profession , policy makers concerned with the administration of justice , pressure group and voluntary organisations and to stimulate an informed discussion of key findings . |
| 5 | ‘ I need a few hours to report back to the office , then my time can be my own . |
| 6 | But you must you must have been asked dozens of times to go back into the pop concert field ? |
| 7 | Professor John Ashworth , vice-chairman of the committee of vice-chancellors and principals ( CVCP ) , also urged Mr MacGregor to use ‘ a heaven-sent opportunity to go back to the drawing board and look at the entire issue of how students are supported — grants , loans and fees . ’ |
| 8 | Tipping the handgrip back to the vertical allows the mercury to flow back into the bottom of the cup , so breaking the contact . |
| 9 | In a television address , he called on deputies to pull back from the brink . |
| 10 | In a television address , he called on deputies to pull back from the brink . |
| 11 | Of course , nobody has gone that far into space and sampled stardust to come back with a bag full of diamonds . |
| 12 | They sat in the parlour , on the evening of Saturday , September 2nd , waiting for Menzies ' man Allan Stewart to come back with the news from Blair Atoll . |
| 13 | Loopy Lil began piling the tea-things on to the tray to carry back to the kitchen , and Mrs Hollidaye suggested Gloria should go and help bring in the vegetables from the shed for supper , when an insistent bell began ringing out somewhere within the house . |
| 14 | Sarah had come to the car with them and Julia asked Pat to go back to the reception . |
| 15 | ‘ If I did wait for Garry to come back into the fold , what would you be doing ? ’ |
| 16 | Where a problem seems obviously more complex they suggest that the client makes an appointment with an adviser to come back at a time when the bureau is officially closed to the public . |
| 17 | ‘ It is why my family sacrificed a nice life in Tenerife to come back to the cold of Britain four years ago . |
| 18 | Our assistance breaks that barrier while allowing for the funds to come back to the Network when the company steps up production and is earning a return on its investment . |
| 19 | Yes , I I Councillor is quite right , I mean it is a new new departure to centre these panels in the neighbourhoods , it was always our intention to come back after a a period had elapsed er , we , with the new system to bring to members attention the success or otherwise of the neighbourhood panels . |
| 20 | Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself . |
| 21 | Spruce allowed his mind to run back over the meeting with the Bishop , Archdeacon and Miss Braithwaite . |
| 22 | The survey , of 587 accountancy firms ranging in size from sole practitioners to 20-partner firms , shows that many are taking positive steps to fight back against the recession . |
| 23 | I was excitedly interested in her attempt to get back to the original Gautama , instead of the stereotyped figure of the Scriptures and Buddhist tradition , and still more thrilled by her insistence that the Buddha had a gospel , good news to the people of his contemporary India and to later generations . |
| 24 | It took me four to five months to get back to the weight I was before I was pregnant . |
| 25 | Press any key to get back to the DOS Shell . |
| 26 | That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house . |
| 27 | That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house . |
| 28 | ‘ He was ever a man of terrible rectitude , ’ said Owen dispassionately , half-closing his eyes to peer back into a past he hardly ever dwelt on now . |
| 29 | ‘ In preparing this Address I had the opportunity to reflect back over the last thirty years , reliving those working days when wages were extremely low , working conditions poor and when in industry a person 's life was cheap . |
| 30 | The time taken by the sound of each click to bounce back from the rock to the bird , enables the swiftlet to judge just how far away it is from the rock wall ahead . |