Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maid would have to be dismissed of course … the girl had brazenly admitted allowing Patrick back into the house , and Katherine was n't sure which annoyed her more — the fact that the boy had managed to creep back into the house or the fact that he had been alone in the girl 's bedroom . |
| 2 | ‘ There 's no need to look so worried , ’ he observed softly , yanking Isabel back to the present . |
| 3 | This can be achieved by making contributions in the year of change and in the following two years , in the latter case by relating premiums back to the year of change . |
| 4 | We forgot the size of the 8 per cent swing required to give Labour an overall majority ; that the Tories had held their private leadership election 18 months before ; that recessions steel hearts rather than change them , driving people back to the devil they know , to secure their own base-line rather than pushing them towards adventurous alternatives . |
| 5 | The Pontins League includes the reserve teams of most of the North 's top clubs , with Everton gaining promotion back to the first division last season after being relegated 12 months previously . |
| 6 | The rugged David McIvor — at No8 on the Scottish scrum feed but on the flank on France 's — was the one man who showed any real propensity for knocking men back in the tackle . |
| 7 | There is increasing independent evidence that the first trusts are proving that bringing management back into the hospitals is already bringing benefits to patients and staff . |
| 8 | Colchester played up the hill in the first half and began solidly , their pack pushing Walden back onto the defensive . |
| 9 | ‘ It will be a varied programme with the emphasis on quality and wooing people back into the theatre , ’ he says . |
| 10 | Well is that fetching I mean is that a is that the routine that 's picking information back from the lexicon or something ? |
| 11 | The leadership of the NECC is well aware of the contradictions in urging children back into the overcrowded classrooms of a system still based on apartheid principles . |
| 12 | This Barth saw as the irreplaceable basis of Christian theology ; and , he insisted , once it had been recognised , there could be no possible reason for casting around in other directions , and certainly not for turning theology back into the contemplation of our own spiritual navels , or for blunting the challenge and promise of the gospel by seeking to reinterpret or ‘ improve ’ it in the terms of some alternative ( and therefore competing ) theological or philosophical frame of reference . |
| 13 | The remaining three thousand million years or so have been taken up by the slow process of biological evolution , which has led from the simplest organisms to beings who are capable of measuring time back to the big bang . |
| 14 | Once a recommendation for deportation had been made it was rare for the Movement to try to reverse the order , though the irony of sending youngsters back to the source of their unhappiest memories was not lost on refugee workers . |
| 15 | It can thus only be changed by special procedures , generally ( and certainly for major change ) requiring reference back to the constituent power . |
| 16 | ‘ Contacts will continue in every way possible in relation to getting people back to the table . ’ |
| 17 | getting police back on the beat , and in close contact with the neighbourhoods under their care . |
| 18 | He dumped the wiping cloth back into the sulphite bucket , and some of the liquid slopped on to the linoleum . |
| 19 | ‘ One of the things we have been working on is getting men back behind the ball , ’ he said and when Stanger did just that in retrieving a kick-ahead from Nadroga , Nicol , Appleson ( twice ) and Turnbull , too , made sure the winger was not in isolation , for Ian Corcoran to boot on delicately and claim a grand try , Appleson converting . |
| 20 | ‘ One of the things we have been working on is getting men back behind the ball , ’ he said and when Stanger did just that in retrieving a kick-ahead from Nadroga , Nicol , Appleson ( twice ) and Turnbull , too , made sure the winger was not in isolation , for Ian Corcoran to boot on delicately and claim a grand try , Appleson converting . |
| 21 | Despite the concern for promoting reflectiveness among teachers , their in-service opportunities have to compete with a week-by-week preoccupation with in-school organization — modifying the management plan , feeding information back into the cycle of formative teaching and testing and balancing the books in order to cover one more curriculum or non-curriculum speciality . |
| 22 | He had some chores to do now , before facing Cowley back at the office . |
| 23 | Then turn right again to make good the inbound holding track back to the holding point . |
| 24 | The stories of Creation , the rescue of the Hebrews from Egypt , the escaping journey , dry-shod through the Sea , the years of desert purification and then the gift of a rich and fertile homeland , exiles , prophets and wise people instructing and drawing people back to the faithful track , these start our Easter Feast . |
| 25 | And so quite a big job has been cutting reeds back around the islands and the banks , and also we 've had what they call blooms of blanketweed , not so much recently but , apparently it 's more common with new ponds and I had a tremendous bloom of blanketweed the first year after I made it . |
| 26 | Some are combatants and others work in agriculture , They describe their music as giving culture back to the people , allowing them to find a new identity and respect for their collective cultural history . |
| 27 | Multi-millionaire Silver , who ploughed part of his self-made fortune into hauling Leeds back to the pinnacle of the English game , is convinced manager Howard Wilkinson can spark another revival . |
| 28 | Rose was delighted , the clowning bringing relief back into the house after the hidden battle . |
| 29 | He painted not the general , but the particular ; not the nude , but the naked , thus bringing sex back in an especially embarrassing way . |
| 30 | On the face of it , Oi is performing a similar function to early punk — taking rock back to the basics , grafting a class accent on to the music , reviving the original rebel-delinquent cluster — the myth of Elvis-as-hub-cap-thief , a poor white loser up against the Law . |