Example sentences of "and [adv] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Martin and Mihal went slowly down the mountain , and slowly back to the forest . |
| 2 | and right back into the er , the Keltic legions and the medieval monks . |
| 3 | But if we go back to square one ( and so back to the roots , back to the foundations , back to the beginning ) , we will find a faith which is solid and secure . |
| 4 | From the Furka summit the road is by way of Hospental and Andermatt and so back to the Gotthard road and to Wassen . |
| 5 | And gives movement to the arms of the scissors and so back through the sieves to the chariot and the moulds . |
| 6 | Cameron talked with Minerva , who was being magnanimously tolerant of her husband 's much-publicised affair with Nina Kenyon , and with Anne , who was well into the tertiary stage of her fourth marriage ( to Didier Bishopric , a society restaurateur ) and just back from the Betty Ford clinic after a spell of amphetamine dependency . |
| 7 | This line of islands swings round to the north , and finally back to the west through South Georgia , describing a great loop , and then heads off for the extreme south of South America . |
| 8 | But the agency does have the job of approving materials and devices ( as well as drugs ) intended for the treatment of disease , and way back in the late 1960s it rightly concluded that none of the artificial hearts available was fit for the task for which it had been designed . |
| 9 | I had to move further and further back down the line to the boats . ’ |
| 10 | TROUBLE-shooter Sir John Harvey Jones is back on TV tonight ( BBC2 9.45pm ) and also back in the soup . |
| 11 | I ca n't find anyone who actually likes this offset idea , and you really do n't want to spend your playing career justifying why your instrument looks so wacky ; left to hang around the user 's neck , it does actually rest neck-up , as promised , although I would think that this has a fair bit to do with the strap button being under the top horn and slightly back towards the body . |
| 12 | Allen looked at the ground on which they were standing and then back along the path . |
| 13 | He let in the estate agent and took him over the house , into the drawing room and the dining room , upstairs to the Pincushion Room , the Centaur Room , the Room of Astonishment , the Deathbed Room , the Room Without a Name , and then back down the back stairs to that jumble of kitchens and scullery and washhouse and coal-store , most of it a nineteenth century addition . |
| 14 | He ran through the hall , the mockery of Havvie Blaine 's party following him as he dashed out of the main doorway — no sign of her there — and then back down the alley at the side — and still no Sally-Anne . |
| 15 | It will be possible to divert the A forty traffic away from the Green Road Roundabout along the M forty extension out to Wendlebury and then back down the new dual carriageway A forty three to rejoin the A forty near to Pear Tree , and that can be done from January ninety ninety one without waiting another seven or eight years for a Barton by-pass . |
| 16 | She looked round at the cuttings strewn on the floor and then back at the blank screen . |
| 17 | I looked over the balcony , first at the stage and then back at the dance floor and beyond . |
| 18 | And then back for the evening service . |
| 19 | He was often aware of the which defended the realm of England against the Scottish raiders and then back to the Celtic saints coming out of Scotland into Northumbria . |
| 20 | Glancing up at her uneasily and then back to the document in front of him he read that Nora Elizabeth Fanshawe , by profession a teacher , had been born in London in 1945 , had black hair , brown eyes and was five feet nine inches tall with no distinguishing marks . |
| 21 | From here , keep the leg straight and stretch it forwards about 3ins ( 7.6cm ) further — and then back to the holding position . |
| 22 | Those that did , turned onto the Zeros who were by now en route to other targets and then back to the battle fleet . |
| 23 | It 's rather like a trip on the Circle Line ; you can get on at any point really , and you 'll get to the fridge , or the move , or the school fees sooner or later and then back to the beginning again . |
| 24 | And it just goes on keeps going on another night another nightmare and then back to the interview room again and the tape machine again and more questions about Stromefirry-nofirry and Jersey and flights and that 's when they tell me about the other one that 's when they say oh by the way your best friend Andy is dead blown up in the hotel when it burned down ; probably beaten to death first head stoved in but of course you probably know all that because you did that too , did n't you ? |
| 25 | He glanced slyly at her and then back to the filing cabinet three feet away from where she was standing . |
| 26 | Staring at him , and then back to the retreating form of Feargal , she agreed drily , ‘ Yes , there we are . ’ |
| 27 | Still staring at him , she became distracted by the dark hair that curled damply across his forehead , at the almost delicate arch of his eyebrows , the aquiline nose , the beautiful mouth , and then back to the bright , amused mockery in his blue , blue eyes . |
| 28 | However , I shall study the issue that the hon. Gentleman has raised about the length of time it takes for the grant to get to the applicant and then back to the contractor . |
| 29 | Rex glanced down at the billfold and then back to the screen . |
| 30 | Each had had a different school experience : one in a G.P.D. S.T. school right through from its junior department , another going from a local primary school to the secondary school for year , then to a formerly all-boys but now mixed public school up to the V form , and then back to the VI form College in her home area . |