Example sentences of "[vb pp] back on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tens of thousands were reported back on the streets in Timisoara yesterday , defying a state of emergency , a curfew , and a ban on assembly of more than five persons imposed on the region . |
| 2 | It was carried back on the blowing sand , but it moved unhurriedly forward . |
| 3 | They will also fit the 6 cylinder 109 if the bell housing is changed and the engine mounts are moved back on the chassis . |
| 4 | Thus , the Report considers the universities mainly in so far as their influence could be seen to be reflected back on the school system examinations and the home . |
| 5 | I have got back on the adrenalin and enthusiasm for these first few matches and hopefully in the next six weeks you will see the best of me . ’ |
| 6 | She was lying full length and was helped back on the platform and she was able to sit up and talk . ’ |
| 7 | He was hauled back on the edge of the area by O'Leary , a ‘ professional ’ foul for which the Arsenal central defender was booked . |
| 8 | All seven Fulmars had landed back on the carrier by 2015 but two were again scrambled almost immediately on the approach of three more S.79s . |
| 9 | When they 'd landed back on the plate , he leaned forward , studying the pattern they 'd formed . |
| 10 | Insecure Christian men feeling threatened have fallen back on the Scriptures with authoritarian tunnel vision , while Christian women are learning Greek and Hebrew in order to find a loophole to invalidate this ‘ yoke of bondage ’ . |
| 11 | He had a high-rolling joint on the SS Nocturne , a ship anchored outside the limits , and some nasty rumours had floated back on the tides along with a well-dressed corpse or two . |
| 12 | The mats are formed by a special cutting and macerating machine which harvests the grass and presses it into a five to ten millimetre layer which is placed back on the stubble . |
| 13 | The tap is then closed and the stopper placed back on the tube to prevent release or contamination of the air . |
| 14 | This policy is back in the desk drawer at the moment , but it is clearly going to be placed back on the table , since the government is even considering charging thirty pound a night for N H S beds . |
| 15 | And unknown to us drama was unfolded back on the mainland . |
| 16 | Hewlett-Packard Co has swung back on the offensive in the US with a predatory enhanced workstation trade-in programme , which it says accepts the broadest range of workstations , personal computers and X terminals in part exchange for new Precision Architecture RISC workstations and X stations . |
| 17 | And something 's changed in the intervening time , I mean I know there 's aggravation and times are hard , I know we 've cut back on the hours and the rest , but there 's a lot of things that are n't good . |
| 18 | Mrs Thatcher was known to dislike the rating system but the rates continued to climb , largely because the Treasury steadily cut back on the grants paid to local authorities . |
| 19 | But with falling profits many employers have cut back on the perk . |
| 20 | They 've cut back on the number of trainees ; they 've cut back on the number of occasionally used specialists ; they 're really down to the bedrock now . |
| 21 | They 've cut back on the number of trainees ; they 've cut back on the number of occasionally used specialists ; they 're really down to the bedrock now . |
| 22 | The blame was placed squarely on the United States for having gone back on the Moscow agreement and on the basis worked out by Marshall and Molotov for renewing the meetings of the Joint Commission . |
| 23 | Before their arrival at Heathrow , their passports and tickets were confiscated ; when the British Airways plane landed , they were separated from the other passengers , put into a van and driven around for several hours before being forced back on the plane and sent out of the UK . |
| 24 | On the far side of it stood a village of longhouses , much like the ones we had left back on the coast , except that these were entered by round doors instead of the normal rectangular ones . |
| 25 | When considering why the DLV underwent this very swift and conspicuously awkward change of heart , we are once again thrown back on the resources of the imagination . |
| 26 | 2 weeks after he was allowed back on the streets , Andrew Hagans murdered Anna McGurk . |
| 27 | When she 'd closed the case he had sunk back on the pillow , a thin smile on his face , his lips tinged with yellow . |
| 28 | It is worth lingering over Churchill 's ‘ overlord ’ experiment , as it was put back on the agenda of reform by Sir Douglas Wass , former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury , in his 1983 Reith Lectures . |
| 29 | He told them about Mahmoud being put back on the case . |
| 30 | In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’ |