Example sentences of "[noun sg] back [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She got ready for bed and never looked at herself again but it was hard to bring her mind back to Ana 's problems and the great mystery of the hacienda . |
| 2 | She lifted her head from her arms and dragged her mind back from Luke 's kiss , his taste … |
| 3 | Mrs Rosalia Alderley looked about the library at the gleaming , polished wood , the dust-free shelves and the shining leather bindings on the many volumes stacked upon them , and brought her gaze back to Theda 's face . |
| 4 | Like Brooke-Rose , Jacques Derrida ( 1972b:277–8 ) and Paul Ricoeur ( 1975:19–24 ) trace the bias toward noun-based views of metaphor back to Aristotle 's classification , but neither investigates the implications of an alternative view based on a different part of speech . |
| 5 | Even in the Renaissance the figure could ‘ symbolise the essential oneness of the sexes ’ ( p. 140 ) , and , with reference back to Plato 's Symposium , the recovery of an original lost unity ( itself intrinsically sexual ) . |
| 6 | I do n't think you have to take it back , I did n't take that chicken back to Safeway 's if you remember . |
| 7 | Now she would have given up every lingering resentment , every long and bitter hatred , to have the boy back at Adam 's banker , humbly cutting stone . |
| 8 | Impatiently , Cleo turned away from him and directed her attention back to Apanage 's machinations . |
| 9 | Then she turned her attention back to Luke 's lecture , confident that she could now listen to the once-hated voice without a pang . |
| 10 | Let down , their elation leaking away , they had decided to give up , and taken a taxi back to Alice 's mother 's house , where Alice made them both coffee and scrambled eggs . |
| 11 | Mention of the FA Cup can bring the glow back to Allison 's eyes . |
| 12 | Leeds had won just one of their previous five games , but goals from Rod Wallace , Lee Chapman and a memorable effort from Eric Cantona put a smile back on Wilkinson 's face . |
| 13 | Maggie was relieved to see the old smile back on Ana 's face and glad at this moment that Felipe was n't there . |
| 14 | Which brought pride back into Creggan 's heart even though he was driven away , and made him even more determined to bring honour to the name of Wrath . |
| 15 | They begin to give the colour back to Isaac 's cheeks , but they are as far as the storyteller will go . |
| 16 | His father , Peter , was a stylish midfield back in Gala 's Border Championship side of 1966–67 and a brilliant sevens exponent , while Rob Moffat toured with Scotland in the Far East in 1977 and coached Townsend at Galashiels Academy and Scottish Schools . |
| 17 | The alternative , however , involves the writing back into section 1(1) of words which the legislature , no doubt deliberately , omitted , and the re-introduction into the criminal law of the distinction between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences . |
| 18 | A powerful urge told me to return to the station and get on the train back to Jamila 's place . |
| 19 | I wondered how Harley would relish a putt back over Jefferson 's footprint — a substantial one since he was a good fifteen stones in weight — if the putt hit the hole and bounced left . |
| 20 | There must also have been a loop so that locomotives could run round their trains in order to be at the front for the journey back to Bishop 's Castle . |
| 21 | BitC is a charity , set up in 1981 , to breathe life back into Britain 's dying towns and cities . |
| 22 | ( Which is a hark back to Morrissey 's rejection of accepted patterns of life . |
| 23 | On the walk back to Daphne 's flat Becky could n't help feeling a little guilty about deserting Charlie on his first night home and began to think perhaps it had been selfish of her to accept an invitation to go to a concert with Guy that night . |
| 24 | My first meeting with was e a I doubt whether he actually remembers er but it was actually on an Inter City , I do n't know whether he does remember , on an Inter City back from London erm three or four years ago when h he also tried to get me to join the Labour Party if I remember rightly . |
| 25 | We caught the bus back to Ellen 's apartment and collected her clothes and notebooks . |
| 26 | When two hours had passed and he had n't returned , Lyn imagined him finding his way back to Bale 's and by this act leading her there in search of him . |
| 27 | Only a trickle of progress reports have so far found their way back to Buckinghamshire 's education department , but they confirm the trend nationally of a poor overall response and turnout confined principally to a hardcore of parents , generally stalwarts of a school parent-teacher association . |
| 28 | Marco 's hands found their way back to Tabitha 's hips . |
| 29 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 30 | I picked up Eddie just as it started to rain again , and we chatted all the way back to Simon 's office while she dressed herself in street clothes from a Sainsbury 's shopping-bag . |