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Example sentences of "back [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	The family historian 's initial task of tracing his ancestors back through the nineteenth century is relatively straightforward , thanks to the information provided by civil registration certificates and census returns and by standardized Church of England registers .
2	I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen .
3	If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself
4	‘ I never seen anybody come back for a second dose of the blue , ’ said a man behind her , for all the world as though he were safe reminiscing in some bar of his old age .
5	Should n't we be opening our universities to older people , for people to come back for a second dose as it were , for retraining and so on ?
6	When I was driving my new Granada in 1989 and dropped a friend down the road , a police car came past , saw the car with a black man driving it , circled round and came back for a second check .
7	The parents of the kids at the school where Mrs Rogers taught had her barred from the school , in case the hit squad came back for a second try .
8	There is still a month of the fitness challenge to run and participants are being invited back for a second assessment .
9	It is n't known whether the South African Richard Snell will be back for a second year .
10	But Mr Pillsbury was not asked back for a second interview .
11	His second-in-command re-divided the men and sent them back for a second search of the places they had searched before .
12	Go back for a second glance — is that really me ?
13	‘ Hopefully , it will be back for a second series in September .
14	Tory turned back for a last look at the rejected blooms as the ponies moved off .
15	The film charts the efforts of a dodgy theatre manager trying to lure the singer back for a last encore .
16	‘ Then we would probably have a mandatory defence , which we would not duck , and then come back for a third defence against Bruno . ’
17	This was enough for the Home Secretary to send the case back for a fourth hearing to the Court of Appeal , with the recommendation that they summon Mathews as a witness to test his credibility .
18	The first players then have to blow the balloons back for the second person to take over .
19	the idea was there and the structure and everything was there it was just that you had n't actually explained what you had to do first , you know , to come back with the erm recommendations erm but you did , you did get the date confirmed to come back for the second appointment which was good .
20	I hope to be back for the first leg with Manchester United .
21	Jazz tossed his hair back for the first time to take in what was going on .
22	Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude .
23	Yeah , I know he 's admitted it already that does n't mean we 're not gon na get you back for the first time you fucking did it !
24	‘ It 's not snowing so heavily now , ’ he said , on climbing back for the sixth time .
25	Oh it 's it it 's on a it 's on erm it 's on a plate so you er I do n't mind I 'm , you know I do n't mind not getting it back for the next month .
26	‘ When you 've finished , it 'll look like a snooker table , ’ he said cheerfully , and , reversing deftly , he went back for the next lot .
27	Anyway , we met up , and we never did get back for the last act .
28	I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time .
29	However , despite the setbacks , the game bounced back after the Second World War and , in a similar way to the developments in France and Romania at the turn of the century , it made inroads into Soviet universities .
30	William Tallack , who as Secretary of the Howard Association had experience of criminal affairs reaching back towards the mid-nineteenth century , was among those who took this line .