Example sentences of "a [noun] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They decided to cut across the coastal plain and head for a wadi that would provide a route back to the top of the escarpment . |
| 2 | He chose a route back down the hill that did not involve too many serious gradients , moving from Roseberry Road to Warburton Drive to Chesterton Terrace and , from there , doubling back along a series of streets with an offensively tangible air of esprit de corps — Lowther Park Drive , where people called to each other over their Volvos and , even worse , Stapleton Road , a place that seemed almost permanently on the verge of a street party . |
| 3 | We skirted the artificial Llys y-fran reservoir and chose a route back on the tiny lanes which connect the farms . |
| 4 | It is not that she 's a political animal , just someone who has seen a lot of beautiful places in the world ; feels very fortunate to be in such a privileged position because of her successful TV and recording career , and so wants to put a bit back into a world which has so far been very kind to her . ’ |
| 5 | He checked the actions and pumped a cartridge back into the breach of each gun before slipping upward through the trees . |
| 6 | They , they needed a , a sort of a , a set of more radical policies to , to get full mobilization and it 's out of that that the outline agrarian law comes , and then they realize the mistakes of that and there 's a , there 's a pull back to the right so it 's , it 's that kind of move to the left and then back to the right . |
| 7 | Right and they did n't get a license back to the second war . |
| 8 | I often go this way to walk to Brigflatts , a very special building that lies a field back from the river Rawthey near the Sedbergh to Kendal road . |
| 9 | And , before any of us could do anything , she flitted like a ghost back into the trees . |
| 10 | The £50 offered daily to the first AE to get a bike back with a client 's cheque , seemed to the world-weary AEs worth more than three times the equivalent , as paid at the end of the month . |
| 11 | The usually respectable FRAME News , the newsletter of the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments , published it in full ( 1988 : 1–2 ) , and Langley in the Dr Hawden Trust 's Alternative News analysed with some alarm ( he signs of a fight back on the part of the American medical establishment after many years of tactical passivity known as the ‘ bunker strategy ’ ( 1988 : 6–7 ) . |
| 12 | But first , with a look back at the weekend sport , here 's Tim . |
| 13 | And next week , we 'll take a look back at the highlights of the Central South soccer season … |
| 14 | ’ … but first let's have a look back over the Maxwell era at the Manor ground . |
| 15 | Well we 'll have a look back in , I 'll have a look back in the file and see what we did last time . |
| 16 | It was a revue back in the thirties . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd like to get an early night , so I 'll just grab a sandwich back at the hotel . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm going to catch a boat back to the mainland and I 'll be in my hotel where you can call me when you 've got a clean shirt for me . ’ |
| 19 | On the one hand , we have examples of speakers self-quoting , where the act of quoting activates a switch back to the code of the original utterance . |
| 20 | I 'm the one who 'll always be late getting a reply back on the set fifty threes ! |
| 21 | You would be totally unaffected by it , okay , now there is one way that you might think camp ons are quite strange , and that is , if you 've got a camp on on , right , and somebody 's engaged , but they 're engaged for longer than 75 seconds , you get a ring back , but you do n't get a successful ring back , you get a ring back of the same long , say 2 and a half seconds , it might ring engaged , okay , if the person 's still engaged . |
| 22 | As I say , nowadays I get the information from you over the phone , and then when we 've got somebody who said Oh no , it 's only a small flat , I 've got this this and this and that 's the big pieces of furniture , er if it 's somebody that 's done it on spec I say Well look give me a ring back in an hour if er when you 've come off the phone you er there 's something you 've forgotten . |
| 23 | Fig 85 Maui Mayer from Hawaii performing a cut back in a World Cup wave riding event . |
| 24 | Lucky Town has a few reasonable ballads and the odd image strong enough to resist the insistent undertow of formula Boss : a soldier back from the Gulf waking from a dream in which the souls of the dead ‘ rise like dark geese into the Oklahoma skies ’ . |
| 25 | He 'd come to complain to me because our student ( teacher ) had asked him to take a tray back to the ( dinner ) hatch . |
| 26 | Powering the skateboard of a car back along the coast road , home to Cliff Top , I felt its wheels skittering on the damp surface and my arms yearned to yank the steering wheel hard round , ending this nightmare . |
| 27 | Punishment is only one form of reminder , a particularly vigorous one for emergencies usually with strong feelings involved — to get a child back into the groove . |
| 28 | It could , for example , refuse to hand a child back to a drunk parent but the child 's continued detention against parental wishes would have to be authorised by court order as soon as possible . |
| 29 | The perhaps inevitable consequences were accumulating losses and a withdrawal back to the protected home market . |
| 30 | A hand was clapped roughly over her mouth , and she was almost lifted up by the arms and moved at a run back into the house , where Mrs Prynn was waiting in her nightcap and gown , with the trap door into the cellar open and the key in her hand . |