Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , the Mirror looks back to the first tragic deaths in one of the world 's longest and more bitter conflicts . |
| 2 | Gargy Patel looks back on the first twelve months of the motorway completed after two decades of delay . |
| 3 | So I think Jimmy traced back to the first |
| 4 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |
| 5 | Erm but to come back to the first criterion which says avoid the greenbelt , I know exactly what you mean when you say avoid the greenbelt , but if in the context of the wording before that where it says to be located beyond the outer boundary of the York greenbelt , do you need to have criterion one ? |
| 6 | Where an applicant voluntarily left accommodation but had then acquired temporary accommodation , the courts interpreted the legislation so as to entitle the local authority to relate back to the first accommodation and so to find that he was intentionally homeless . |
| 7 | Looking back over the first decade of his regime , in a radio broadcast made to mark the tenth anniversary of the end of the Civil War , Franco crowed , |
| 8 | The portal was commissioned by Gaston IV , the then Count of Béarn , when he came back from the First Crusade . |
| 9 | A campaign for a People 's Front would detract from their attempts to influence the Labour Party , and was felt to be inspired by Lloyd George , with whom the Communists had a long standing feud , dating back to the First World War . |
| 10 | In Nottinghamshire no less than 164,508 ‘ presumed pickets ’ were turned back during the first 27 weeks of the strike ’ ( Wallington , 1985 : 154 ) . |
| 11 | First the next coupon payment is added to ( 8.8 ) and then the whole sum is discounted back to the first day of the delivery month . |
| 12 | Hughes , aged29 , has a remarkable record going back to the first women 's World Championships in 1980 including a world gold in 1986 , world bronze in 1987 and two European titles . |
| 13 | Now , going back to the first time Mahoney was shot . |
| 14 | The popes , as bishops of Rome , had a " genealogy " going back to the first pope , the apostle Peter . |
| 15 | We have to look back to the first quarter of 1988 to see a time when construction output was so low . |
| 16 | He reminded her of the ancient tradition of Christianity in that part of Ireland , one that dated back to the first century after the crucifixion , before Rome was supreme . |
| 17 | because we get back to the first chapter , verse nine . |
| 18 | In most cases , the stem simply withers back to the first node , and remains as an unsightly brown spur . |
| 19 | The private sector of rented accommodation has become a relatively minor part of the housing market and its long-term decline certainly stretches back to the First World War . |
| 20 | The irony that Charlton finally got back to the First Division in 1986 , the year their exile from The Valley began , is n't lost on Ufton . |
| 21 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 22 | We have to go back to the first quarter of 1986 to see such a low figure for construction output per person in the past decade . |
| 23 | I would buy the parchment and arrange its transport down to the wharves and we concluded that , if we sold the wine brought back on the first voyage , we would make a profit . |
| 24 | they booked a six week holiday coming back on the first week on boxing day they 've got free car hire for the whole six weeks , not the insurance . |
| 25 | They 're coming back on the first Wednesday of next month with a bus load of about forty Women 's Institute members — ’ She broke off as she realised he was staring at her in horror . |
| 26 | Creggan did not like this and flew back to the first tree . |
| 27 | The crypt ( which could go back to the first basilica to be built on the site , in the ninth century AD ) , should be completely restored within a year . |
| 28 | And again , if he wanted to alter a painting later after its completion , if he did not go back to the first idea and atmosphere of conception , he could never make the alteration a success . |
| 29 | If you can go back to the first day that you arrived |
| 30 | He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter . |