Example sentences of "[noun] and [noun pl] [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | As defiant shoppers and workers flooded back into Manchester city centre yesterday , police rejected claims they herded hundreds of workers directly into the path of the second bomb . |
| 2 | Queues of cars and lorries stretched back towards Gloucester for several miles — in the end police closed the road . |
| 3 | Three sets of lights later , they came into the town centre , a wide boulevard that sloped up a hill with the shops and offices set back from the pavement . |
| 4 | She 's also produced very kind of her erm , a questionnaire about the Royal Quays erm to take home to their parents and grandparents to bring back and about , probably get a couple of copies of that and then when they 've done that the seventh and fourteenth she 's going to , or we 're gon na select two pupils from each of the classes to go out with her , one group to go into the middle of North Shields |
| 5 | Although ‘ real ’ life was now so often only fantasy and incomplete memories , there were moments when people , events , sights and sounds came back into sudden , sharp focus . |
| 6 | In the United States a national botanical garden was founded to exploit the seeds and plants brought back by a Pacific exploration expedition under Charles Wilkes in the years 1838–42 . |
| 7 | At the commencement of the conversions the vehicles were lifted , and all parts of the underframes and bogies brought back to nominal new as for the standard LMSR coach . |
| 8 | When we 've finished being sad , the mucous membranes in the nose and sinuses settle back to the normal uninflamed state . |
| 9 | The Audencia Nacional ( National High Court ) on Oct. 11 , 1989 , sentenced ETA members José Antonio López Ruiz and José Miguel Latasa Guetaria " Fermín " to 42 years ' imprisonment each , and two others to 36 and 29 years , for attacks and murders dating back to 1984 . |
| 10 | We called for some fish and chips to take back for all of us , but I was n't sure that I could eat them after seeing that documentary where they all had ulcers . |
| 11 | The cherry and whites came back with 2 penalties . |
| 12 | It was being sharpened there and he wanted to have the grass mown by the time his wife and children came back . |
| 13 | Rights and properties going back to a remote and undocumented past appeared to him to have a sanction which no later enactment — not even by the pope — could alter . |
| 14 | Properties and insurances gave back some of the sharp gains of the past two weeks , but building stocks were supported . |
| 15 | Subsequent reductions in government spending forced the LEA and schools to cut back . |
| 16 | He closed his eyes and smelt the meadowy air , the scents of mown grass and wildflowers brought back a flood of happy childhood memories . |
| 17 | Both government and unions stepped back and set up an arbitration process to try to resolve the cleaners ' claim for a minimum monthly salary of 80,000 pesetas ( £450 ) . |
| 18 | The exquisite decor is tasteful and includes many antiques and paintings dating back to the original period . |
| 19 | FOR advertising agencies in the Republic , 1993 will be the toughest year for years , with little if any growth and margins trimmed back to the bone . |
| 20 | Beyond it , the ditch and trees curved back again in a re-entrant , so that the field formed a bay with a bank running all the way round . |
| 21 | As the ages passed , a few land mammals , the distant ancestors of today 's whales and dolphins went back to the sea , and gradually changed shape as they adapted to an underwater environment . |
| 22 | Its exact details can hardly be measured , for the official statistics , such as they were then , fail to capture all the movements of men and women within countries or even between states : the rural exodus towards the cities , the migration between regions and from town to town , the crossing of oceans and the penetration of frontier zones , the flux of men and women moving back and forth in ways even more difficult to specify . |
| 23 | It was peaceful more than frenetic , a mirage of slow dawns and sunsets going back to the fluted point people : humbling . |
| 24 | Chairs and tables pushed back , we used the rows of tiles on the floor to represent months , two tin cans to represent the original pair of rabbits and coloured wooden discs for the babies . |
| 25 | Both the horses and girls come back into work on January 1st by which time both parties are refreshed and raring to go ! |
| 26 | PARISHIONERS and clergy looked back at the past year on Sunday when Headley 's annual vestry and parish meetings were held at the Church Centre . |
| 27 | One is at the end of Gaudier-Brzeska ( 1916 ) ; another is in a Criterion article of 1937 , ‘ D'Artagnan Twenty Years After ’ ; in that year appeared Polite Essays , which includes Pound 's review of Binyon 's translation of the Inferno ( originally in The Criterion for April 1934 ) ; there are two tributes to Binyon in Guide to Kulchur ( 1938 ) ; in 1948 at St Elizabeth 's Pound was still pressing Binyon on the attention of Charles Olson ; and as late as 1958 he took the opportunity of Pavannes and Divagations to get back into print his appreciative note on The Flight of the Dragon . |
| 28 | In evidence earlier this week Lord Aldington , 75 , formerly Brigadier Toby Lowe , said the first he had heard that the men , women and children sent back from the British-occupied zone of Austria had been tortured and massacred was from Count Tolstoy in 1979 . |
| 29 | Milton 's God was Empson 's last book , in his lifetime , though when he died he was collecting at least three others : Using Biography ( 1984 ) , on Marvell , Dryden , Fielding , Yeats , Eliot and Joyce ; Essays on Shakespeare ( 1986 ) ; and a book of Renaissance essays , as well as a massive ragbag ( as he called it ) of papers and reviews dating back to the 1920s which , when it posthumously appeared as Argufying ( 1987 ) , was rapidly seen by many to be the finest critical miscellany in the language . |
| 30 | Doubtless while our noble lords and masters stand back and applaud themselves for winning yet another battle . ’ |