Example sentences of "back on the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Birmingham architect Joseph Crouch looked back on the nineteenth century , he reflected that ‘ the spirit of Evangelical religion in England has changed in a singular manner during the past fifty or sixty years . |
| 2 | Back on the 17th fairway the wait of ten minutes had given Andy time to think . |
| 3 | I would buy the parchment and arrange its transport down to the wharves and we concluded that , if we sold the wine brought back on the first voyage , we would make a profit . |
| 4 | They 're coming back on the first Wednesday of next month with a bus load of about forty Women 's Institute members — ’ She broke off as she realised he was staring at her in horror . |
| 5 | they booked a six week holiday coming back on the first week on boxing day they 've got free car hire for the whole six weeks , not the insurance . |
| 6 | Town 's drugs are often made in Britain , flown to the Far East or some other convenient staging post and then brought back on the next night — to be sold more cheaply than if they had never left Britain . |
| 7 | Later they told me that the examination had shown that I was not yet sixteen and that I was to be sent back on the next flight . ’ |
| 8 | It filled his his truck up so he said when he comes back on the next delivery he 'll take all the turf away for fifteen quid . |
| 9 | Maybe that 'll bring them back on the next plane . ’ |
| 10 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |
| 11 | As the camera pulled back on the last shot and credits were shown on the screen , the tension in the studio relaxed , replaced by an exultant mood . |
| 12 | THEY , I predict , will fall back on the last line of defence . |
| 13 | They can look back on the last years they spent together as some of the best in their whole lives . |