Example sentences of "[verb] back [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With only three minutes remaining Paul Mooney 's corner produced a powerful header from Paul Curran which thundered back off the Bohemians ' woodwork .
2 Then he visits La Famiglia before driving back up the King 's Road and on to the Caprice .
3 Send back up the hierarchy any work which significantly diverts you from the agreed priorities .
4 Then I started walking back up the field .
5 Doreen had walked out into the dark hall suddenly , and seen him walking back up the passage away from the kitchen door .
6 A few moments later they passed Gilberto walking back up the hill to the place where he had left his own car , just below the massive wall of the columbarium in the cemetery where Ruggiero Miletti had been interred two hours previously .
7 As they drew back up the stairs , piling on the pieces she threw up at them , Lawton sniffed .
8 They had already been unlucky with just five minutes remaining in normal time , when Neil Webb 's shot cannoned back off the foot of the post .
9 A fabulous drive from Knell cannoned back off the Cliftonville upright from fully 25 yards — and the visitors breathed again .
10 Koeman was involved everywhere and cracked in a 35-yard shot which cannoned back off the post after 48 minutes .
11 We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair .
12 Then he was climbing back up the bank he had slithered down and I watched as he walked in a leisurely fashion across the slope of the mountain to the gully .
13 Half time Coleraine 0 Omagh Town 3 Mark McWalter forced a brave save from devine in the 65th minute , his stunning 25 yard shot bounced back off the keeper and the Scotsman drove his follow up effort into the side netting .
14 This makes it very difficult for the mains to be contaminated by dirty water ( from a bath , say ) being sucked back up the mains — a phenomenon known as back siphonage .
15 Erm , when , when I came back out the forces , a man 's guaranteed week was a forty hour , forty eight hour week .
16 This time he left both Stockwell and Phil Whelan gasping in his wake before executing a marvellous chip-shot which came back off the underside of the Ipswich crossbar .
17 Paul McGurnaghan 's shot came back off the base of the post and David Eddis was on hand to hammer the ball into the net .
18 The ball came back off the post and Whelan touched it in .
19 Clinton Ford 's sweetly struck free-kick came back off the post and Paul Read scrambled home the rebound .
20 As he drove back up The Street he frowned .
21 I walk back up the steps and stand in the open doorway with the gun smoking by my side .
22 Later in the dusk I entertain a perplexed perfecto as I walk back up the hill to the castle , to Schloss Hartheim .
23 If the ball is left short it is virtually impossible to save par as the approach shot will almost certainly spin back off the green , leaving the player with a chip shot which will be equally as difficult to keep on the green the other side .
24 But much of it is reflected back off the Earth 's surface — at a different wavelength — not as short wave , but as long wave radiation .
25 As far as he could see back up the Basra road were the headless date palms , lopped by the shrapnel .
26 I run back up the stairs with the cash .
27 and like they run down the stairs and run back up the stairs , yeah , and they 're looking out the window out the window and they go why the bloody hell are you always just looking out of windows and he 's going do it your way and I 'll do it mine .
28 The Dragoons closest to the Prussians immediately turned and galloped back up the slope towards their comrades .
29 It lies sullenly in our stomachs as we trudge back up the stairs .
30 Delaney tore himself away , going back up the stairway that was the only way out , and back in the direction that the creature was coming .
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