Example sentences of "and back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The brothers were literally run out of town and back over the English border . |
| 3 | To her it felt right to be there with David , her skin soft against his , her senses alive to his touch , and she succeeded in banishing her fears of what would happen when they stepped out of their circle of magic and back into the real world . |
| 4 | One takes me along St Mary 's Villas and Barrowclough Road , past the old municipal baths and the new DIY and wholesale paint centre ; while the other means cutting down Lennox Gardens , taking that street whose name I always forget into Rumsey Road , then past the row of shops and back into the High Street . |
| 5 | Hibs , while not exactly setting the place alight , have at least the comfort of knowing that a win would lift them above St Johnstone and back into the top half of the table . |
| 6 | cars be permitted to make the lengthy journey out to Finchley and back down the other road to Cricklewood and Willesden , where they met other L.C.C . |
| 7 | And then we went on to and parked at the start of and walked up one side and back down the other side and that 's as much as I saw of it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His harsh words jerked Folly out of her fantasy and back to the real world . |
| 10 | They then fought their way past the Dark Elf patrols and back to the Inner Sea . |
| 11 | His emotional and intellectual development in Aden was such that it was to lead him inevitably back to France , back to emotional security with Rirette , and back to the political and social struggle from which he had escaped in a state of total disorientation a few months earlier . |
| 12 | And back to the Good life . |
| 13 | Like his celebrated 1976 Macbeth , which teamed McKellen and Judi Dench , Nunn 's Othello was deliberately small-scale and intimate so as to shift the emphasis away from overripe declamation and directorial grandstanding and back to the fevered pulse of the play . |
| 14 | MICHAEL MANN 's moved on from Miami Vice and back to the 18th Century for Last Of The Mohicans . |
| 15 | Under the new policy , anyone working on the twelfth floor will need to go down to the first floor to clock out , to the fourth floor to find a smoking room , down to the first to clock on again and back to the twelfth to carry on working . |
| 16 | For a short run , I usually end at Westsandwick , taking the loop road through the township and back to the main road . |
| 17 | The touch of his hand on hers felt like a scorching electric current , jolting her brutally out of her trance and back to the sunlit terrace . |
| 18 | Each person now hits the balloon up and around the chair and back to the next person . |
| 19 | And back on the ninth . |
| 20 | The 11-year-old member of Wensleydale Smokebusters from Redmire will travel in style from Darlington to York and back on the new smoke-free train on Friday . |
| 21 | If they do , another injection , tube back down and back on the life-support machine . |
| 22 | Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March |
| 23 | Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March |
| 24 | So there I was , back in plaster and back in the psychiatric hospital . |
| 25 | Tackle the problem of front and back in the same way , making it obvious which side is the front . |