Example sentences of "[noun sg] back [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Self Inflicted Wound , that was how they had referred to sunburn back in the old days of Counter Insurgency . |
| 2 | The National Railway Museum will set the family purse back by a similar sum . |
| 3 | I played that on almost every album back in the early days ; it 's a black one and it 's a beautiful guitar . ’ |
| 4 | The complexities of these situations are shown by the case of an applicant and his family who left what was described as an ‘ overcrowded tin or galvanised structure with no basic amenities ’ in Bangladesh and who were treated as intentionally homeless by one London borough ( who considered that it was reasonable for them to continue to occupy that accommodation ) but not intentionally homeless by a second London borough who referred the applicant back to the first . |
| 5 | True Confessions in 1981 was an attempt at getting my stage nerve back after a disastrous premature version of Blood and Ice , my first try at a real play , went on in the studio of the Belgrade Theatre , Coventry ( ‘ I 'd rather be at the dentist — Birmingham Evening News ’ ) . |
| 6 | It is necessary to have the lace carriage back on the left before you can knit any rows , so simply slide the carriage back to the left out of the way of the knitting . |
| 7 | He extracted Catherine a short while later and turned the car back on the darkened road which would lead them towards the A1 . |
| 8 | ‘ Where are we going now ? ’ she asked as he swung the car back into the main street . |
| 9 | Drove that bloody great car back like a good 'un . ’ |
| 10 | Dismore back with a faultless ride |
| 11 | You would be totally unaffected by it , okay , now there is one way that you might think camp ons are quite strange , and that is , if you 've got a camp on on , right , and somebody 's engaged , but they 're engaged for longer than 75 seconds , you get a ring back , but you do n't get a successful ring back , you get a ring back of the same long , say 2 and a half seconds , it might ring engaged , okay , if the person 's still engaged . |
| 12 | He lifted the oars and began to pull at them again , digging heavily into the water to his right , bringing the boat back onto a straight course . |
| 13 | One then has to extrapolate the result back to the real space-time in which we live . |
| 14 | This means that garment workers in the Third World who benefited from the search for cheap labour by the TNCs in the past , can no longer assume that their jobs will always be safe from relocation back to the First World ( Elson , in Elson and Pearson , 1989 ) . |
| 15 | Impact You thin from this position because you are trying to transfer all your weight back to the right side at impact . |
| 16 | Impact Unable to transfer your body weight back to the left side , you hit the shot on the upswing , resulting in a low thinned shot . |
| 17 | Together , the pair devised a series of three-year plans — the first was to put the club back in the first division , the second to get the club established in the top third of the table . |
| 18 | When I was about twelve she told me how she 'd " flung " a sixpenny piece back at a titled woman who 'd given it her as a tip : " If you ca n't afford any more than that Madam , I suggest you keep it . " |
| 19 | Their natural reaction to this is to shed leaves , to cut maintenance back to the essential main frame as it were , and this may happen during August or at the beginning of September , long before the frosts which generally trigger leaf fall . |
| 20 | Henry cast his mind back to the small talk of a small town . |
| 21 | If you cast your mind back to the 1966 World Cup , you may recall that Pak Doo Ik , the North Korean forward , also wore odd shorts and he went on to score the winner against Italy , so I thought it was worth a try . |
| 22 | ‘ Stupendous — spectacular , ’ she offered distractedly , forcing her mind back to the mind-fazing wonders of the gorge running between mountains of pure marble and through thirty-eight tunnels , and even spanned at one point by a bridge of marble . |
| 23 | Henry Tyler cast his mind back to the fatal evening . |
| 24 | First , however , cast your mind back to the lunar eclipse on August 6th because , by all the laws of astrology , the only road for you to travel was then clearly signposted . |
| 25 | Your due back on the ninth ? |
| 26 | She threads the Monster back into the high chair where it stiffens , collapses forward , stiffens again , slides down to the crutch-stop and lies there half under the tray , flailing its arms and legs like a crab on its back … and howling — howling like the hell-sent creature it is . |
| 27 | Roland drew his breath in minor shock : Maud said , ‘ Oh , the dolls ’ — and Sir George brought his light back from a blank mirror entwined with gilded roses and focused it on the three rigid figures , semi-recumbent under a dusty counterpane , in a substantial if miniature four-poster bed . |
| 28 | Lonrho is also selling its UK Volkswagen distributorship back to the German car manufacturer for £124 million . |
| 29 | I put the sheet back in the folder and the folder back on the other rear seat . |
| 30 | For instance , when an existing part is modified to produce a new part only the modification is stored along with a reference pointer back to the original part . |