Example sentences of "back [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When I was c coming back with the boots in them . |
| 32 | Similarly , Charlie 's incarnation as a Norse explorer among the Skroelings , ending when a man who seems to be Erik the Red took his crew and ‘ steered them for three days among floating ice , each floe crowded with strange beasts that ‘ tried to sail with us , ’ said Charlie , ‘ and we beat them back with the handles of the oars ’ surely relates to the long sea voyage , an account of which originally formed the bulk of the ‘ Death by Water ’ section . |
| 33 | Down she went and came back with the cups of tea and slices of cake on a tray . |
| 34 | With it , we are back with the problems of identity , specifically those of projection , the process by which certain aspects of the self are seen as located in some object external to the self , and of introjection , the process by which certain aspects of external objects are seen as being located within the self ; we are firmly back in the area of object-relations . |
| 35 | Armoured men were pushing the crowd back with the shafts of their spears . |
| 36 | But Exodus 1.8 read , ‘ Now there arose a new king over Egypt , who did not know Joseph , ’ and then began the story of Egyptian brutality and oppression to which we have already referred , and after that we are back with the tales of the Israelites ' stubborn complaining in the wilderness with which we have become so familiar . |
| 37 | Only Daz Sumner , back with the Bears after spending a year in the first division with Belle Vue , was at ease on a track where he is aware of all the wrinkles . |
| 38 | He 'd be lucky if he was merely broken back into the Scouts for ten or twenty years . |
| 39 | The royal demesne vills , fields and woods in Sherwood Forest , for example , which had been put out of the forest by the perambulation of 1300 , were now ‘ entirely put back into the forests by the said King Edward ’ . |
| 40 | With one twiddle of a button , the colour flooded back into the faces of the soap stars on screen and the owner sprang back in feigned amazement . |
| 41 | And they have vowed to refuse to move back into the flats on Conwy Morfa until their demands are met . |
| 42 | This awareness goes back a long time , and to Lace it we need to leave the field of folklore and go back into the realms of ancient philosophy . |
| 43 | They were straying back into the realms of evidence , and that would be a matter for the court when the Proof was heard . |
| 44 | The most notable thing about the Rough Wooing is not that in the end the savagery of the English attack drove the Scots away from the new idea of friendship with England and back into the arms of their natural and ancient allies , the French . |
| 45 | That the Hall was sometimes used as a refuge for recusants and fugitive priests was the subject of frequent speculation among the fishermen who gathered in Mother Russell 's alehouse , but if some knew more than others , they were n't saying : no one could ever be sure , after all , whether Elizabeth might one day be toppled by Queen Mary of Scotland , and England taken back into the arms of Rome all over again . |
| 46 | She felt the fence give a little and then it literally threw her back into the arms of the man with the mask . |
| 47 | Loretta put down her book , grasped him by the shoulders , and heaved him back into the arms of his tormentors . |
| 48 | G passes through condensers. er and that er and then through the er through the coolers and it its got back into the boilers at the proper temperature . |
| 49 | Shrugging , he slipped Blake 's identification into his pocket , and tossed the wallet carelessly back into the bushes beside the corpse . |
| 50 | Mrs Reynolds was in the doorway , almost ready herself to go to the wedding — she never missed a wedding or a funeral — but seeing the procession that approached withdrew back into the shadows of the room to observe better the old cockerel go by followed by his dismayed pullets . |
| 51 | I shrank back into the shadows of the alley and saw people passing by on the sidewalk . |
| 52 | Rose with three men ambushed a couple of trucks one evening , killing 12 men before melting back into the shadows of the scrub . |
| 53 | She took a step back into the shadows of the hallway and watched the other woman , her heart beating strangely . |
| 54 | Then he allowed the body to drop to the floor , watching it twitch for a second before stepping back into the shadows from which he 'd emerged . |
| 55 | And you are n't asking for help to get the other stuff back into the files at Bad Schwarzendorn . ’ |
| 56 | Perhaps it is better , rather than roaming back into the recesses of geological time to consider the sudden and simultaneous extinctions that happened in Our geological yesterday . |
| 57 | After a time ( or if disturbed ) this living globe breaks up and disappears like a rain of silver back into the depths of the sea . |
| 58 | His merciless tone brought a spark of uncertainty back into the eyes of the Prophet . |
| 59 | Following the disappointment of April 's 2-2 home draw with unfancied Lithuania , when the Irish surrendered a 2-0 lead , this victory will put some colour back into the cheeks of Billy Bingham 's boys . |
| 60 | My hon. Friend is right that the Labour party would be prepared to overrule parental ballots and to take grant-maintained schools back into the throes of LEA control , which is exactly what parents have voted to escape . |