Example sentences of "back [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked back through the many pages she had written , and saw the great names glitter there — Proclus , Plotinus , Iamblichus , Ficino , Pico , Agrippa . |
| 2 | I shall not , however , let my hon. Friend hold me back during the few minutes that I shall use to unbridle myself . |
| 3 | She wriggled in outrage , but when he caught her head between his hands , pulling back for a few moments to stare intently into her face , she stopped fighting . |
| 4 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 5 | In one instance , a stock of thousands of BBC props had been sold off this year for £75,000 yet the BBC later spent £1,100 renting just three items back for a few weeks . |
| 6 | ‘ If Steve does n't come back for a few days I 'll probably have to go into Palma and see the airlines and the tourist board myself . ’ |
| 7 | The attendant came back after a few minutes , its little red boots ruffling the hem of its robe . |
| 8 | Some of the nomes scouted around the sheds and came back with a few vegetables that had been missed , but it was a pitifully small amount . |
| 9 | Joyce Anderson , of Thornton Hough , said : ‘ We are not really in a race against time , the winners will be the party who come back with the fewest miles on their clock . |
| 10 | I returned the amp for repair but the company sent it back with the same fault as before . |
| 11 | but I said to him , I 'll go and buy vinyl and we can come back into the same position , and he ai n't no good at sticking vinyl up , I always go round with a bloody |
| 12 | That is , they translate words back into the same modality of bodily experience from which those who spoke the words derived them from within their own bodies . |
| 13 | The high speed turn at the bottom of the wave which brings you back up the same wave enabling you to continue your ride in . |
| 14 | Mummy will come back in a few minutes , wo n't she , for Susie ? ’ |
| 15 | I 'll be back in a few minutes . ’ |
| 16 | I did n't want to leave the Maxteds behind because they had started out as my passengers , so I went back in a few minutes later to see if they were ready to leave . |
| 17 | I 'll be back in a few minutes for our little talk . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Expect me back in a few minutes , ’ she heard him say distantly . |
| 19 | She came back in a few minutes , looking very serious . |
| 20 | Grant , the people could come back in a few minutes |
| 21 | We will be reporting back in a few weeks ' time about this case and whether we have achieved a lasting and muzzle-free peace treaty between the battling Yorkies ! |
| 22 | They went away thanking her for her help , and promised to come back in a few weeks ' time when Bruno 's booster injection was due . |
| 23 | so she 's got to go back in a few weeks ' time |
| 24 | Come back in a few years , eh ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll be back in a few days with your orders . ’ |
| 26 | Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time . |
| 27 | I mean , we could go back in a few days and I could distract her while you … ’ |
| 28 | wait a bit , and they said so , they looked at it and said we 'd have to take it back in a few days time for them to do , they could n't do it there and then . |
| 29 | when we send it back in a few days fitting , this job I says we 'll want it early in the morning and you can have it in the afternoon , but we were going to spend the day in Liverpool , but you 're dad said , I 'm not being round all those shops all day , so I said ooh no ! |
| 30 | On the expenditure side , the fall from 1979 to 1983 was an even greater 0.7 per cent ; but the recovery to 1987 brought the percentage budget surplus back in the latter year to almost the same insignificant level obtaining in 1979 . |