Example sentences of "[vb pp] back [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This makes it very difficult for the mains to be contaminated by dirty water ( from a bath , say ) being sucked back up the mains — a phenomenon known as back siphonage . |
| 2 | But much of it is reflected back off the Earth 's surface — at a different wavelength — not as short wave , but as long wave radiation . |
| 3 | Once she was safely winched back up the slipway into the lifeboat shed , I spoke to some of the crew . |
| 4 | John could tell that it was being driven back up the hill towards Putna . |
| 5 | Every top lip was pulled back off the teeth , every eye was ringed round with a reddish bruising , while their cheeks cracked like tambourines as they cough , cough , coughed . |
| 6 | Billy 's cottage was set back off the road , behind a neat little hedge . |
| 7 | I mean you want to see his house I mean it was set back off the road and you see the people pull ploughing |
| 8 | In this way , liability is passed back up the chain of distribution to the manufacturer . |
| 9 | As the tide rose , water was forced back up the Westbury Brook and held back by the sluice gates . |
| 10 | Paul had climbed back up the embankment — with the post sticking out of his body . |
| 11 | The light travels down an open tube until it hits a curved mirror at the bottom ; the rays are then sent back up the tube on to a smaller , flat mirror placed at an angle of 45 degrees , so that the rays are directed into the side of the tube , where an image is formed and magnified by an eyepiece . |