Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We noticed now a trail of well-trodden snow winding back towards the shore , obviously a route known to be safe by the experienced locals . |
| 2 | That has opened new wounds in relationships between the two sides , barely on speaking terms after bad blood dating back to the infamous Shakoor Rana-Mike Gatting bust-up . |
| 3 | His origins are obscure , but he seems to have been a German from one of the tribes which were allowed to settle within the Empire , and for which privilege they were liable for military service , a practice going back to the late third century . |
| 4 | Lord Vansittart , a former Foreign Office official , had written a pamphlet entitled Black Record blaming the Germans for a record of barbarism going back to the era of the Roman Empire . |
| 5 | Once Ranulf had gone , Athelstan sat on the altar steps , his mind going back to the corpses he had seen : Vechey 's lying cold amongst those dreadful heads on the tower gate of London Bridge ; Brampton 's sheathed in dirty canvas in the death house of St Mary Le Bow ; Springall 's lying alone under its leather covering in the great four poster bed in his mansion . |
| 6 | There 's Bigwig coming back along the bottom , and the other two with him . " |
| 7 | The thump of the back wheel coming back into the gutter brought Bob 's window down . |
| 8 | Sultan Pakubuono XI of Surakarta comes from a lineage reaching back to the ninth century and , despite Indonesia 's official birth into the modern age with her independence in 1949 , the Sultan , like his ancestors before him , remains the uncrowned " Pope " of pre-Islamic Javanese mysticism . |
| 9 | It was now generally agreed ( despite claims to the same effect reaching back to the 1930s and beyond ) that the map of literary history was as complete as it was ever likely to become . " |
| 10 | It was better than having your screenplay flopping back on the mat by return of post . |
| 11 | KOD belong to and older and , dare I say , bolder tradition of British independent rock stretching back through The Bunnymen , The Banshees , The Cocteau Twins and The Smiths . |
| 12 | ‘ Look , ’ said his Mum looking back at the house . |
| 13 | In the example given , the College 's close relationship with the catering industry , covering conventional day-release , specialist courses and demonstrations , and extensive work experience dating back to the 1960s had given the mutual confidence and understanding which made an unconventional pattern worth trying . |
| 14 | The aircraft that this intrepid group had used was a large lumbering biplane dating back to the early 1930s . |
| 15 | This case relied on law dating back to the 1870s . |
| 16 | Er , at the time , we had no response when this was announced by Jim erm , it does in fact clash with our council meeting but in view of the fact that erm our business meeting Se , in December is not until the second Monday , I would be happy to put the erm council meeting back to the following Monday if there was sufficient interest from the members . |
| 17 | The Doctor and Blake walked down an alleyway heading back to the entrance to hell . |
| 18 | In the passage leading back to the northbound platform of the Northern Line they stopped in a corner , the man got out his mouth organ and the bear began to dance . |
| 19 | In a separation section , the sludge is discharged , the clean sand going back into the system , so that the process of filtration is continuous and the " filter " is self-cleaning . |
| 20 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 21 | Porter merely regarded the man indifferently , his gaze straying back to the woman . |
| 22 | This infill could come from ejecta falling back into the crater , including molten rock from the impact , lava from volcanic activity , and dust from the walls and beyond . |
| 23 | Are The Orb the smiling , blissed-out face of a sinister intergalactic plot stretching back before the dawn of mankind itself ? |
| 24 | The Old Testament kings had been initiated with unction ; and in any case the Carolingians , unlike their Merovingian predecessors amongst the Franks , could not depend for their sacrality upon a long royal genealogy stretching back into the past . |
| 25 | That is why the concept of the safety case — a case going back to the very essentials of design — is so important . |
| 26 | Although they were public servants answerable to the Home Secretary , the Prison Commissioners had a separate existence going back to the reforms of the late Nineteenth Century . |
| 27 | Why should Shadrach contemplate for a moment stepping back into the burning fiery furnace ? |
| 28 | But the risk of rocket failure was considered too high , potentially bringing the radioactivity raining back into the earth 's atmosphere . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , at Newbury , our archaeologists have worked with the Trust for Wessex Archaeology and unearthed the remains of flint tools from a site dating back to the Middle Stone Age . |
| 30 | They represented a common English custom dating back to the Middle Ages and were first mentioned in Stamford in 1486 . |