Example sentences of "back [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was walking back for over an hour through deserted streets . |
| 2 | Not expected back for quite a while yet , I suppose ? |
| 3 | Glasgow District Council decided last month to release its £90,000 grant for 1992-93 to the RSNO after holding it back for almost a year . |
| 4 | Well a couple of weeks and I was off on embarkation leave , and then I was back for about a week and we were gone . |
| 5 | Crawford had been ordered to take a few days ' rest after pulling a leg muscle , but he was back after only a day , filming at the Piazzale del Faro . |
| 6 | He was back in just a couple of minutes , and his face was set into dark , angry lines . |
| 7 | back in about an hour and a half 's time so erm that 's good timing actually . |
| 8 | But can I come back in there a bit . |
| 9 | As you go backwards in time , to say the first minute of the universe 's life , the density is not absurdly high , it 's only a little more than that of water , but the density of radiation is much , much higher — it 's a million times higher — and the temperature is like the inside of a nuclear reactor , so one of the interesting things is that when we get back to just a minute , say , after the apparent beginning of the expansion , we 're not yet dealing with any bizarre physics , we 're dealing with conditions that we know and understand on earth . |
| 10 | That was his Sunday ritual : over to Harry 's for cards as soon as lunch was eaten , and back at exactly a quarter after six , to read the Sunday papers and then sleep off the drink . |
| 11 | He had n't got the information I was waiting for but he rang me back at about a quarter to ten . |
| 12 | This was no understatement : the problem went back at least a century to the ‘ Black Assize ’ at Oxford where ‘ all who were present died in 40 hours ; the Lord Chief Baron , the Sheriff and about 300 more ’ ( Pettifer 1939 : 17 ) . |
| 13 | Even so , original estimates that the plans would cost $150 million have already risen by 20 per cent and the finishing time been put back at least a year until 1996 . |