Example sentences of "[verb] back [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | As she drove back home through the traffic , memories of her father 's authoritarian presence , vigorously admonishing her for the sinfulness of some childlike request , filled her mind with pain and loathing . |
| 32 | The best route , initially , is to cross the shallows on the left into the rack then go right over the shingle/boulder bank into the mini haystacks , thence into the pool , left at the next rack and cut back right between the rock and the boulder bank to avoid the tree roots . |
| 33 | watched her walk back slowly to the quay , |
| 34 | So we 're meeting back here on the twenty fifth of April at two thirty . |
| 35 | They strolled back home down the tunnelled lane and called in at the Littles ' cottage and the Vicarage on the way . |
| 36 | The encoder is set to generate a position pulse corresponding to a 0° switching angle and this pulse is fed back directly to the phase excitation circuit , when the appropriate position is reached during the first step . |
| 37 | The Russians were pushed back northwards to the Stanovoi mountains , where the frontier fixed in 1689 by the Treaty of Nerchinsk was recognized until the nineteenth century . |
| 38 | By May 3 up to 500 Moroccans were being turned back daily from the southern Spanish port of Algeciras as they attempted to enter before May 15 , when a visa became necessary for visitors who were citizens of Morocco , Algeria , Tunisia and Mauritania . |
| 39 | She zipped her jeans and sauntered back downstairs to the other side of the table from Lucy . |
| 40 | And the Beau Nash Room might just as well have been their luxury coach : twenty-three of them only for the minute , with Eddie Stratton now being held in custody by the New York Police , distanced by only a few yards , as it happened , from the mortal remains of his former wife ; and with Sam and Vera Kronquist , one of the three married couples originally listed on the tour , still in their room on the second floor of the hotel — Sam watching a mid-morning cartoon on ITV , and Vera , fully dressed , lying back lazily against the pillows of their double bed , reading the previous February 's issue of Country Life . |
| 41 | In the meantime , he could raise a harvest of tobacco , indigo and cotton , to be ripe and ready on the Hopewell 's return to ship back home to the Lord Clovelly ; a load of perhaps ten thousand pounds of goods to increase his fortune , reinforce his foothold . |
| 42 | , … or to strike south to the Waste , recapture the girl — remember , they may know nothing about her — and then ride back either by the track on the other side of the Swamp or carry on direct south towards Leicester . |
| 43 | Although going back well into the nineteenth century , in the past two decades this idea has generated a vast amount of research by psychologists , physiologists , neuroanatomists and other scientists . |
| 44 | I mean , I 'm going back well into the haulier days then , three days . |
| 45 | Perhaps going back again to the quality of life , was it a a release valve for the frustration of the places ? |
| 46 | But going back again to the |
| 47 | 1 Winston walks 1¾ km to school and the same distance going back home in the afternoon . |
| 48 | Well , we are going back now to the days of the hand joiner 's shop , when mouldings were scribed ( not routered ! ) and tenons cut with the rip saw . |
| 49 | now the best of the timber he had Gottonam Peters , the builders that were , I mean they were building a lot then and I 'm going back now to the fifties and the sixties Gottonam Peters they 'd done a lot of building in Upton in Chester and erm , developments er expect building sort of thing and er , they used to buy in all the three by twos and four by threes that he could get , the good ones second hand |
| 50 | The bodies of two young boys have been stitched back together in the mortuary of this place . |
| 51 | To look to look back further to the sailing boats , no doubt would be to recall an even busier village . |
| 52 | He turned back again to the pill-box and , as he began to run towards it , she shoved him into the empty channel on the seaward side of the Lock . |
| 53 | She took Charlotte companionably by the arm , and they turned back together towards the car park , and the Morris , and home . |
| 54 | She turned back quickly into the house , closed and bolted the door and strode across to the telephone . |
| 55 | He smiled a flash of white teeth at Katherine and from nowhere pulled up a chair , which he turned back forwards to the table . |
| 56 | It disgraced itself on the Cambrian Coast Express some weeks ago and was hauled back ignominiously to the works where a tremendous flap occurred as to who paid for the necessary . |
| 57 | When they had finished they patted the dovecot affectionately and climbed back unhurriedly down the stairs . |
| 58 | But first let us look back briefly at the events from 1945 to 1956 that provided the prologue to the post-imperial era which began at Suez . |
| 59 | There are even those who look back nostalgically to the days when people might leave school at 11 , when the educated classes were distinct from the uneducated . |
| 60 | Look back now to the magnificent organ . |