Example sentences of "[vb pp] back [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | A schoolmasterly exposition of the law : Andrew Brown sat in on a High Court trial — and was transported back to the strangely mingled fears and absurdities of a prep-school |
2 | We were driven back through the nearly empty streets . |
3 | Ignoring this , the present Government has cut back on the already poorly resourced Youth Training and Employment Training programme . |
4 | It does n't seem to have had as bad an effect on a lot of people as it might appear — they have n't immediately turned round and gone back to the very worst anti-gay feeling . |
5 | Those who had previously found part of their income from ironmaking were thrown back on the less adequate resources of Wealden farming , although a small number of nomads continued to burn charcoal for the London market , camping in branch and sod hovels as they migrated from wood to wood . |