Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 2 | Once , on a day of snow and melting slush , he was walking back to the Marylebone Road when the Asshe carriage passed by , with Johnny at the reins . |
| 3 | While they were walking back from the Huddersfield discotheque , it suddenly dawned on Fred and Arthur that they had eaten three main meals that day instead of two . |
| 4 | Nick Clark looks back over the Maxwell era . ) |
| 5 | But they had finished with Elise 's death , and now Merrill had come back to the Midlands city where she and Elise had grown up before they went their separate ways . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’ |
| 7 | And that happened each day till Thursday and then , by then , you were delivering what had come back from the Monday , hoping that when you delivered , and collected the money of course , that you might get something else tt , which I were n't too bad a salesman really . |
| 8 | I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped |
| 9 | They did n't have any money either at this point , so to get them out , I had to slip back into the States without anybody knowing and sell off everything we owned — all the furniture and household stuff . |
| 10 | Transvaal , who had beaten Western Province the week before , bounced back from the Baa-Baas defeat with a win against Free State the week after . |
| 11 | Anne Davies , a former Senior Scholar and Social Secretary , moved back to the United States and is now working in the children 's section of a leading publishing house . |
| 12 | His inability to make the weight limit forced him to relinquish his title , but two years later , at the age of 22 , he moved back to the USA and won the featherweight crown ( subsequently losing it , regaining it , losing it again and winning it back finally in 1898 ) . |
| 13 | The struggle must be carried back to the Dalek city , they argue . |
| 14 | Redundancy/Church Relations — Sandie reported back about the SMT discussion held 12.3.93 . |
| 15 | At the direction of his wife he had taken fourteen full days in the sun that beat back from the Indian Ocean 's azure . |
| 16 | So it was with some trepidation that I put forward the idea of his leaping back into the West End , twenty years after he 'd gratefully left it . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , the pressure on me has increased since Stuart decided to come back on the England scene , but this is not the first time he has squeezed the position and I accept that challenge from a top-class player . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , the pressure on me has increased since Stuart decided to come back on the England scene but this is not the first time he has squeezed the position and I accept that challenge from a top-class player . ’ |
| 19 | The two understudies were asked to come back on the Friday afternoon , when there was going to be a complete run of the play for the producers and Malcolm Harris . |
| 20 | There were visits of this kind at which institutions were told flatly not to come back to the CNAA for validation , for a variety of reasons . |
| 21 | Even President George Bush told his team not to come back to the USA if they failed to win back the Cup while one British tabloid quoted our own Peter Alliss on how the matches have moved away from the original concept of GB v USA and goodwill through golf . |
| 22 | Debbie had said she did n't want to come back to the States . |
| 23 | Attempts to encourage otters to come back to the River Thames are being aided by the building of a man-made home for them . |
| 24 | I 'm going to change subjects now , but if you want to come back to the Gulf , do feel free , the lines are open on three double one , one double one , but I in the meantime we 'll take a couple of calls on different subjects erm let's go to June from Shillingford , hello June . |
| 25 | But he went down to Suffolk very often , much more often perhaps than he would have done had Wyvis Hall been destined to pass back to the Berelands or on to one of those cousins in the United States . |
| 26 | The money will be spent on extending and modernising its Portrack sewage treatment works at Stockton , resulting in ‘ significantly ’ cleaner water being discharged back into the River Tees . |
| 27 | Right : Looking back along the Bwlch Main ridge on the day Billy 's ashes were scattered . |
| 28 | Looking back at the Hayward Gallery showing of Black ( male ) work in '89 , it is obvious that it is still vital for Blackwomen Artists to organise together or we will simply be written out of history once again . |
| 29 | Action round-up time now … two big events this week … we 're looking back on the RAC Rally and forward to the Hennesey Gold Cup |
| 30 | Looking back towards the Pan-Americana , the huge mud complex appeared ringed with peaked and desiccated mountains . |