Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | checked with his radio , he goes alright then phoned back to the police station on his radio , he said it 's not stolen the owner 's now here he said , can you please get it moved ? |
| 2 | Chief Whip Richard Ryder anxiously counted the numbers of MPs trooping back from the lobbies . |
| 3 | In this , the third issue of Update devoted to general SVQs , we also report back on the seminars held recently for external verifiers and for centre co-ordinators from new piloting centres . |
| 4 | Report back from the seminars |
| 5 | Report back from the seminars |
| 6 | Report back from the seminars |
| 7 | Tens of thousands were reported back on the streets in Timisoara yesterday , defying a state of emergency , a curfew , and a ban on assembly of more than five persons imposed on the region . |
| 8 | As they set off she realized they were n't driving back towards the restaurants of the town centre and Willi 's beloved Franz Joseph hotel , but up to the mountain road that led over the pass and into the next valley . |
| 9 | ‘ Deal with this fellow , will you , ’ said the Major , walking back to the trenches , annoyed at getting his polished boots muddy . |
| 10 | Walking back across the fields , he suggested that they stop by the lake on the way . |
| 11 | We 're walking back from the shops — me and Marie — and we stop for a bit to look at the lights in the electric shop . |
| 12 | As she sank back against the cushions a sleek black cat appeared from nowhere and began to wind itself around her ankles . |
| 13 | Sighing , she ignored pride 's dictates and sank back against the pillows . |
| 14 | Marguerite left after this little show of determination and Jenna sank back against the pillows , realising that the thought of Alain coming back was a little worrying . |
| 15 | Relieved , she sank back against the pillows , brushed a shaky hand over her eyes . |
| 16 | She sank back against the pillows and threw her arm across her eyes . |
| 17 | If one looks back at the text-books and review papers written about psychobiology during t , his period one finds that they were largely preoccupied with topics like motivation and emotion . |
| 18 | But its annual surpluses ( $56 billion in fiscal 1989 ) are added back for the purposes of the Gramm-Rudman deficit-cutting law . |
| 19 | The residuals are smoothed using the same recipe as before , and the results are added back to the results of the first smooth ; this is illustrated in exercise 9.1 . |
| 20 | On other occasions he drew back from the implications of this argument by not referring directly to the Jews and by arguing that the British army would always obey the orders of the cabinet even if there was a Jewish Minister for War such as Hore Belisha . |
| 21 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 22 | When she had finished she turned to Nara , who had just come back with the things she needed and was peering round the door , as if he was too scared of her magic to come right in . |
| 23 | She promised to find out , and she 's just come back with the results . |
| 24 | He had that look he used to get on Saturday mornings after he had come back from the shops . |
| 25 | He was unhappy there but , determined not to slip back into the pits where his grandfather had wielded a pick , worked hard and won scholarships both to Jesus College , Oxford , and the University College of Aberystwyth . |
| 26 | We headed back to the dockyards and on to the approach road for the Blackwall tunnel . |
| 27 | Most spreadsheets were designed back in the days when 640KBytes was the maximum amount of memory that was available . |
| 28 | When he saw Robert , he made what looked like a little , stunted bow and moved back towards the boys on the lawn . |
| 29 | And the time is long past when the question of who deserves what was taken out of the hands of politicians and time-serving bureaucrats and given to a genuinely independent and truly meritorious body which might set about trying to put honour back into the honours system . |
| 30 | The tide was going out , she saw ; if she walked along the parade as far as the pier , she would be able to come back along the sands . |