Example sentences of "back [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a choice , but if you need a clue look back through the five editions of Environmental Issues ! |
| 2 | She looked back through the many pages she had written , and saw the great names glitter there — Proclus , Plotinus , Iamblichus , Ficino , Pico , Agrippa . |
| 3 | As they walked back through the haunted lanes of the Salamanca gardens , Cleo voiced her thoughts to Lorimer . |
| 4 | They shuffle out to a soft rhythmic crunching underfoot , reminiscent of how the boots of Napoleon 's legions must have sounded trudging back through the Russian snows . |
| 5 | Angry at his ineffectiveness and at the way Rohmer had made him a bystander in this nightmare , Cardiff followed them back through the savage whirlwinds towards the office block . |
| 6 | I think we 've got to be serious about it in terms of targeting given individuals , tracking back their history , go back through the bloody files , if there 's been anybody been treated . |
| 7 | The letter I saw which alerted er , users and their carers about these items on the agenda , seem to be an indication for them to , to express their opinions back through the Social Services Department , now if that 's consultation , then the process has started . |
| 8 | The slow dance was quickening , swirling them back and back through the darkening woods and stabbing gorse of memory to the sheep trying to escape the cold night and , beyond that , to the ways in which each of them , Forest girl and Forest boy , had first joined body with another . |
| 9 | The stranger was led back through the empty trains to the car shed pits where he could gain access to the street . |
| 10 | Looking back through the old progs I do n't see much sign of Forrester at all ! |
| 11 | I shall not , however , let my hon. Friend hold me back during the few minutes that I shall use to unbridle myself . |
| 12 | Come back for the new herons ? |
| 13 | ‘ Mill crushed Hammer with a three-goal blitz midway through the second half , and their was no way back for the gallant losers . |
| 14 | He escaped with Bean from the tea table as soon as possible and slipped out of the house , heading back for the open spaces of the industrial estate . |
| 15 | The lowering of interest rates last year provided extra spending power for the family but , as Mr Ingram , 34 , pointed out , that will probably now just be kept back for the rainy days to come in 1994 . |
| 16 | Indeed , for the local authorities ( many of whom were angry that the Government were treating nationalisation merely as a book-keeping transaction within the public sector and thus paying them little compensation for the takeover ) , the maintenance of uneconomically low prices was one way of getting their own back for the local ratepayers ( who were also usually electricity consumers ) . |
| 17 | Tallis mounted Swimmer of Lakes and returned to the south , kicking the horse , challenging it , urging it to run faster through the night , back towards the swirling zones of seasons . |
| 18 | ‘ We need to get back towards the Victorian days of discipline ’ says Dr Boyson in one of his attacks on ‘ permissiveness ’ , and he is certainly not alone among Tory fundamentalists in fondly remembering the glories of empire , child labour and workhouse in Queen Victoria 's reign . |
| 19 | So we left the remote mountains of the north and west and headed back towards the central highlands and Mount Kenya , the main objective of our visit . |
| 20 | They are heading directly back towards the hellish towers of Castle Drachenfels . |
| 21 | All had their sails up and all were looking out to the Solent , not back towards the red foils approaching them at 35 knots . |
| 22 | Sharpe rode back behind the advancing troops . |
| 23 | We left Paris by the Porte D'Orleans and found ourselves back amongst the tilled meadows and windmills which ring the city . |
| 24 | Treading water , she moved to the side of the pool and , stretching out her arms , leaned back against the smooth tiles . |
| 25 | Isabel stood pressed back against the wooden panels , trying to listen for the sound of breathing over the drumming of her heart . |
| 26 | She stubbed out her cigarette with an air of decision and sat down on the bed , leaning back against the plumped pillows . |
| 27 | Frightened now , hemmed into the confined space with no escape , they ran in unison , a few steps one way , then the other , heads thrown back above the shifting bodies , yellow eyes ablaze . |
| 28 | It 's quite comfortable to wear , too , feeling good to play , with easy access via the lower cutaway , which sweeps neatly back under the upper frets . |
| 29 | At one extreme , the description of the reflex pathway can be regarded as an account of a " real-time " journey of the impulses from the pain receptor along the sensory fibres to the spinal cord and back along the motor fibres to the biceps muscle . |
| 30 | He stuffs his pistol into the top of his trousers , tilts one of the two heavies back onto the rear chairlegs and drags him out the door , clumping down the steps to the gloom outside . |