Example sentences of "back [prep] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So anyway off we goes course when we come back for half an hour at ten o'clock well out of the other machine were n't it ? |
| 2 | They can say , ‘ I 'm sorry there 's nobody on that number , but I know they 'll be back after such-and-such a time ’ , which is better for all concerned . |
| 3 | Relieved to have grass underfoot silencing his blithe escape , Laverne glances back with all the charm of a lowly jackal . |
| 4 | And we we go in car shopping and we always get our s shopping from , you know with it being cheap , and we go in her brother 's car , and so we do n't have to carry it back all the way from , but round here you see you 'd have to go out , you 'd have to take the kid with you , and your girlfriend , and then you 've got to come back with all the shopping and your kids as well . |
| 5 | The bairn started bringing his milk back up all the time when he was just a few days old . |
| 6 | Her heart cramped now as she thought of her husband 's folly in plumping for the easy money , as it had seemed , after three bad harvests — his airy promise to come home soon — his failure to return after his regiment had been disbanded in Madras and left to make its own way back round half the world . |
| 7 | At the same time , for those who have not arrived at , or hold back from such a step of faith , the Kingdom is not yet . |
| 8 | He says back in 1963 the trough was due to be broken up to make way for a path . |
| 9 | However , back in 1938 the Club 's survival was uppermost and up to that date and beyond , bondholders had had a poor deal , especially those on 3% interest . |
| 10 | Back in 1986 the president accused the Ewes of mounting a failed coup against him , claiming that the plot involved Ghana 's leader , Flight-Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings ; Mr Rawlings is an Ewe on his mother 's side ( his father was Scottish ) . |
| 11 | We should be back in half an hour or so . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm referring to the habit shopkeepers have of leaving a note on their door saying : ‘ Back in half an hour . ’ |
| 13 | Having located the spot , which had to be served by a nearby airstrip , they rang Anthony Marangos in Paris and told him to call back in half an hour with the largest houses closest to the spot . |
| 14 | Only do n't be too long ; if Matt 's not back in half an hour I 'm going home . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Phone back in half an hour , ’ he said , and the soldiers went on their way , warmed by glasses of hot liquor . |
| 16 | Back in half an hour . |
| 17 | Well that 's a , that 's a thing of that particular day , at that time th th and life erm and then they get what they call , they bought a steam hopper , so the steam hopper would say , could get to sea quicker in half the time the dumb hoppers could and so we were rotating all the time , there used to be one dumb hopper go to sea , one steam hopper and we 'd be loading the other dumb hopper and then th course the steam hopper would be back in half the time we 'd that and that 's how we rotate , day to day . |
| 18 | Back in 1978 the Department of Health and Social Security brought together clinicians , statisticians , health service researchers , economists , and civil servants for a similar seminar addressing waiting times for hospital treatment . |
| 19 | Back in 1831 the man of the moment was one Squire George Osbaldeston . |
| 20 | 38 , 51 , afford a sufficient basis for saying that a party would not be allowed in equity to go back on such a promise . |
| 21 | If she wished , Shelley could remain here , working with the people of Santa Barbara and of Samana , and never go back to all the heartache and the pain of her old job . |
| 22 | come back to all the grass now . |
| 23 | How can you go back to such a life ? ’ asked Rose . |
| 24 | You must get back to this every time . |
| 25 | The sound remains the same when played back at half the speed but lasts for twice as long . |