Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they parked and headed for the open front door , a smiling woman in a dusky pink two-piece and with her silver hair caught back in a chignon appeared to welcome them . |
| 2 | The green man was flashing and we were crossing it and it just li I had to jump back onto the pavement ! |
| 3 | I report back to the hotel room , defeated . |
| 4 | The local authority must complete the investigation and report back to the court within eight weeks unless the court directs otherwise . |
| 5 | Kirk elders were instructed to visit offenders and report back to the Session . |
| 6 | A at the moment what happens is individual people report back to the clerk , |
| 7 | An Outreach scheme has been devised which divides the parish into six areas , each manned by teams of church members whose job it is to identify ways in which they can provide help and report back to the church . |
| 8 | I also think that having to report back would assist with dealing with the many , many people who have complained about the state of our footpaths network but individual complaints and with user groups and we 're off to see representatives out of County Council , they 're not here today but they 're off to hear it at our Committee meetings and I do think that having an officially report back to the Environment Committee would assist in meeting their requirements would be good P R. Thank you . |
| 9 | It will be handed to the working party of East Hampshire Road Safety Council who have to investigate , and report back to the matter to their main committee by April 15th . |
| 10 | Erm , I think that this erm , part of the agenda is most interesting because I think it 's other departments which also report back to the policy resources , which really , we as a erm , council do n't get much chance to see it 's doing . |
| 11 | Keyence 's salesmen report back to the research department on what new machines their customers would find useful . |
| 12 | On longer courses participants may be asked to talk to one of their own students and then report back to the group on his/her pattern of language use . |
| 13 | They report back to the manager on the progress of the batches . |
| 14 | What I do n't like is that we went back did n't we , I do n't know if you saw my thing to David where we report back on a fax , report every month |
| 15 | The ambitious plans drawn up by Middlesbrough council will be passed to various departments which will work on them and report back in a year 's time . |
| 16 | Headward erosion is rapid at this point and regrading of the river starts to work back from the mouth . |
| 17 | A radar pulse scattered back by the planet is spread over a distance range which exceeds that of the transmitted pulse by an amount equal to the radius of the planet . |
| 18 | ‘ Just check the car , ’ Estabrook said , taking some satisfaction in the thought of sending Chant back across the no-man 's land between here and the perimeter . |
| 19 | Which was supposed to open and flap back at the end of the world and let her out , resurrected . |
| 20 | The garrison , in spite of everything and without the assistance of the Collector , continued to labour between one downpour and the next to prevent their walls of mud from oozing back into the plain from which they had been dug , but the number of men available to wield a shovel had suddenly begun to decrease alarmingly . |
| 21 | in nineteen eighty nine if I recall there was a divisional structure which er comprised of a number of companies within the division and there was a managing director of that division who would have reported back to the board |
| 22 | This is always agreed to and the Bill is then reported back to the House . |
| 23 | And , when we were driving back towards the tunnel , do you know Upper Parliament Street ? |
| 24 | ‘ I thought they 'd gone off my land and started driving back to the house but then suddenly felt a sharp pain in my back . |
| 25 | Driving back to the house through the small back-roads was more difficult than she 'd anticipated , and she took a couple of wrong turnings . |
| 26 | Driving back in the dark , Roland and Maud communicated in brief businesslike bursts , their imaginations hugely busy elsewhere . |
| 27 | Driving back from a game with fellow coloureds , he stopped at a white sports ground to watch a match played by members of the SACU . |
| 28 | ‘ I was driving back from a conference in Norwich , and I wanted to see the church in any case . |
| 29 | Love-making 's not easy when you 're driving back from an evening meeting in Cheltenham to reach London by 1.30am and you both have to be up early for work the next day . ’ |
| 30 | In the intervening decades , there was ‘ a general trend toward spectator civility ’ ( Talamini , 1987:66 ) , only for aspects of disorder to creep back into the sport by the 1970s . |