Example sentences of "[coord] back [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not allowed to stand , merely to percolate through the roots , and channels-were dug to conduct the water away into another meadow or back into the stream or river . |
| 2 | After all , there were only two ways that Harry could come on to Grace , the gangplank across from Maurice , on which Stripey lay digesting uneasily , or back to the wharf and round by the afterdeck . |
| 3 | Or back to the dealer . |
| 4 | It looks just like smalltown America — the kind of place where you could set Twin Peaks or Back To The Future 4 — but it 's bigger . |
| 5 | It looks just like smalltown America — the kind of place where you could set Twin Peaks or Back To The Future 4 — but it 's bigger . |
| 6 | Not all video machines have this property but it is becoming more and more common to be able to see the picture as you run forward or back on the tape or disc . |
| 7 | A year ago , Selina 's two-hour session of candlelit fund-raising would have gained her nothing more than a clout round the ear ( I 'd have done it nice , mind you , not in the restaurant or anything like that but in the Fiasco or back at the sock ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Not unpleasant , perhaps , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ but you have n't exactly gone out of your way to make me feel welcome — either here or back at the television studio . ’ |
| 9 | * Instead of rinsing your pasta after cooking , drain it and put in a serving dish or back in the saucepan , then add a few knobs of soft butter . |
| 10 | And back through the past and into the future |
| 11 | Flat on his stomach , he slid across the cockpit to lead the other two lines over the taffrail and back through the portside stern anchor cleat to the portside winch . |
| 12 | On his feet were huge settee springs and he bounced onto the grassy ground then high into the air and back over the wall again . |
| 13 | 2.40:LEADING northern hurdler Coulton gained all his successes last term over two and a half miles and back over the minimum I fancy HALKOPOUS to beat him . |
| 14 | There are sensational drops to concentrate the mind , some straightforward scrambles to add spice and great views towards Anglesey and back over the Snowdon massif . |
| 15 | Down through the old meat-market streets , into the tunnel with its rows of lights like neon stitching and its shiny cream tiles , up into Venus , then round the western edge of the harbour and back over the bridge to C Street . |
| 16 | She ran back into the corridor and back towards the service lift . |
| 17 | There are infrared-sensing security lights on the wall of the house and if they go on then the whole thing 's off ; I 'm up and over the wall and back into the woods and away . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , when you use a vibrato bar guitar , when you hit the strings really hard , a lot of the vibration gets transferred to the springs and back into the bar in a sort of flutter and I really do n't like that sound at all . |
| 19 | The most notable thing about the Rough Wooing is not that in the end the savagery of the English attack drove the Scots away from the new idea of friendship with England and back into the arms of their natural and ancient allies , the French . |
| 20 | I burst out through that jeweller 's door and back into the shopping mall . |
| 21 | This was the very thought in her head as she turned the corner of the corridor and back into the waiting room and saw the weeping figure of a woman hunched over and hugging herself with grief . |
| 22 | A quick photo ( well it was very pretty even if it was small ) and back into the water with a few quick words something to the effect of ’ go send me your grand-daddy ’ . |
| 23 | They seemed to stretch back for a very long way and Nuadu , narrowing his eyes , trying to find his bearings , thought that they must go back and back into the hillside behind the road and deep within the earth . |
| 24 | There seemed to be a door cut into the wall that was farthest away from the window ; Fenella , trying to get her bearings , thought it would lead more deeply into the Workshops , perhaps even back and back into the cave part . |
| 25 | He felt grateful to her for dragging him out of the pit and back into the daylight . |
| 26 | When using a plunger , ensure that it seals well on to the surface ( smearing petroleum jelly on to the rubber surface helps ) and that you do n't simply pump the water up the overflow pipe and back into the sink — hold a wet cloth tightly over the overflow while using one . |
| 27 | Then it all joins up again and goes back in , goes along here , so everything that goes down there , the ten amps goes through this one again , and back into the battery . |
| 28 | We trooped out and back into the changing-room where ‘ Private ’ Boyd had opened a fire door on to what ‘ Sergeant ’ Waters had called the Paddock . |
| 29 | Back in her drab black dress , Ellie was escorted smartly out of the ready-made department and back into the elevator . |
| 30 | Now make a circle with your head , let it drop onto your chest , roll the head over the left shoulder , let it drop behind you and roll over the right shoulder and back onto the chest . |