Example sentences of "[noun] back in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Self Inflicted Wound , that was how they had referred to sunburn back in the old days of Counter Insurgency . |
| 2 | John Lennon , the leader of Her Majesty 's Loyal Opposition , who was briefly a member of an unsuccessful group called The Quarrymen back in the 1960s , was apparently asked if he wanted to reform to appear on the bill . |
| 3 | I played that on almost every album back in the early days ; it 's a black one and it 's a beautiful guitar . ’ |
| 4 | If Jitters did n't have a wife and kids back in the old country — which , come to think of it , he probably did n't these days — he might just have dragged Fat Old Stinky Juanita up before the padre and tied the old knot . |
| 5 | Together , the pair devised a series of three-year plans — the first was to put the club back in the first division , the second to get the club established in the top third of the table . |
| 6 | The shop was started by the Neal brothers back in the 1870s . |
| 7 | The Detective Sergeant unzipped his coveralls , collected his labelled brown paper bags and put his equipment back in the two cases . |
| 8 | A lack of vision has pegged Rovers back in the last month , plus diligent homework by the likes of Spurs … not any fall from grace on Shearer 's part . |
| 9 | → Sorry to have forgotten about the Pacifica , Graham — although , come to think of it , Charvel/Jackson might also have been in on the act back in the mid-eighties . |
| 10 | What is required is an experiment in which , after non-reinforced exposure in one context and conditioning in a different context , the subjects are tested with the target stimulus back in the original context . |
| 11 | With a controlled distributor system , the spirits range and its own TV airtime , PTGI — and Guinness in Indonesia — is moving on still further from its origins back in the 1970s . |
| 12 | It was a Dutch medical man who is credited with having discovered the first recipe for gin back in the 1600s . |
| 13 | Even so , when I stumbled across Miss Diana Dors — a permissive sex-symbol of some notoriety twenty years ago — advancing its claims in a popular magazine and asking us to cast our minds towards ‘ my era back in the fifties ’ , I was not immediately sure whose side she was supposed to be on . |
| 14 | But Paula , who shot to fame back in the '70s in the hit TV shows The Lovers and Man |
| 15 | ‘ I used to run that business back in the late 1960s and early 1970s , ’ he recalls . |
| 16 | On the expenditure side , the fall from 1979 to 1983 was an even greater 0.7 per cent ; but the recovery to 1987 brought the percentage budget surplus back in the latter year to almost the same insignificant level obtaining in 1979 . |
| 17 | Looking at the relaxed poses in our photographs , it will come as no surprise to learn that Clarissa modelled for a few years back in the 60s . |
| 18 | And it , kind of faces both ways , it , it looks back to the early period of the development of Freud 's thought that we 've already spoken about , and its beginnings back in the eighteen nineties , and in certain other respects , it looks forward , to the kind of revolution that was going to occur after World War Two . |
| 19 | Cheap solar energy conversion has been a dream of some scientists since the first oil crisis back in the late 1970s . |
| 20 | Indicative of things back in the eighteen . |
| 21 | If it could be measured in units related to time , the quantities may be found to be proportional to the distance back in the evolutionary chain to which an individual may revert . |
| 22 | Aunt Tossie put the long-handled gravy spoon back in the napkin-swathed pudding bowl and waited in happy expectation for the sea-kale . |
| 23 | If I were playing tennis , I would put the ball back in the hon. Gentleman 's court by asking whether he thinks that those claims are genuine because they have been put through someone 's letter box and because they ask the recipient to sign the form and post it back . |
| 24 | Thus we shall be plunged into a show trial of the public morality every bit as much a barometer of our times as the Lady Chatterley case back in the Sixties . |
| 25 | It was a revue back in the thirties . |
| 26 | Richard Feigen the high profile dealer who used to show the quick among artists back in the 1960s but who now specializes in the dead ( so much easier to cope with ! ) has had the bright idea of mounting , this month , the first Pierre Roy exhibition in the United States in over fifty years . |
| 27 | Like their less skilled brethren back in the early 1980s , unemployed accountants are finding that lengthy unemployment becomes a barrier to re-employment . |
| 28 | Products back in the early 1980s . |
| 29 | There , in this country , more so than any other country in Europe , there 's a tradition of adults abusing children quite legitimately as well in the form of beating them and erm indeed headmasters of Eton back in the eighteenth and nineteenth century were often selected , not because of their scholarly ability , but because of their size and strength . |
| 30 | It is simply something that must be done ; and , in the same way , I had to get rid of some woman , tip the scales back in the other direction . |