Example sentences of "back [prep] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer is that after mating they produce a tiny mobile larvae totally different to the adult this might drift for miles on ocean current before settling into the fixed adult form Down Norwick power station in North Wales , generates the electricity by pump storage , in off peak hours thousands of gallons of water are pumped from a lower lake to an upper lake , when the demand for electricity is high bowels are opened and water falls back through turbine to the lower lake again , this generates the power To ensure that the lower lake would never flood the was diverted through mile long tunnel in the mountain side , no one knew for certain how the salmon , the trout and even rarer that used to migrate up the old river would cope with the tunnels , pitch darkness and slow flowing water . |
| 2 | They remember that the guardians of the tree run back through time to the one who only sang and never spoke , who used to keep vigil by the tree , where the sorceress Sycorax ( but they have forgotten her name ) lies deep with her grave goods . |
| 3 | She flew back through imagination to the festival at Shadoxhurst , to the dancers , the nonsense words they often chanted as they went through their formations . |
| 4 | IF Forest decide to sign Nigel Jemson , their old boy at Wednesday , winger Kingsley Black could go back as part of the deal . |
| 5 | They have been duly sent back for inclusion in the prize draw . |
| 6 | He asked me back for lunch after the Eucharist . |
| 7 | Sheila and Annie did not contact each other during the following week : Annie planned to invite Sheila back for coffee after the next meeting , to have a friendly talk , away from the hothouse of the group , but Sheila sent her apologies to the meeting . |
| 8 | And then was did they come back for tea at the house ? |
| 9 | He said good-night to Evelyn quickly and that he 'd be back after breakfast in the morning . |
| 10 | ‘ I came back after Christmas to the news that my services were no longer required by Mr Nigel Steen . |
| 11 | They move out , quickly consume what they need and are soon back below ground with the minimum of delay . |
| 12 | Keeping control of public spending will enable us to cut taxes while bringing the Government 's Budget back towards balance in the years ahead . |
| 13 | Now in terms of the cr the need for development , I 'm sure the panel will have read all the evidence which has been put in about the long history of the varying impact studies o on development on around Greater York , and those date back of course to the February eighty nine report which I I think you 'll have seen copies of . |
| 14 | The sausage lovers are fighting back against criticism by the European Community . |
| 15 | Tom Cruise puts in a fine performance as Ron Kovic , disabled Vietnam vet who fought back against indifference from the country he fought for , but somehow Oliver Stone 's direction still leaves the viewer unmoved by his plight |
| 16 | Twenty-seven people were arrested when the police finally got the camp back under control in the early evening . |
| 17 | Full of wine , afterwards , Paul did not go back with Chase to the lodging . |
| 18 | One PC complained at length to a sergeant that the ‘ ground ’ where they both worked had become much quieter ; he looked back with nostalgia to the old days when the ground was much ‘ harder ’ and ‘ you could literally be strolling past a pub and a bloke would come staggering out with a knife in his back … ’ |
| 19 | For that reason , Sir Adrian looks back with gratitude on the job-rotation policy that was an integral part of basic training when he joined the family firm after coming down from Cambridge in 1952 . |
| 20 | Then we parted , I went on and she went back with Blazer to the stable yard . |
| 21 | His mind flew back with ease to the last war and an up-and-coming young officer on a smoke-belching dread-nought at Jutland . |
| 22 | I valued his judgement highly , and look back with pleasure to the several visits I made to him-and his equally delightful wife Elizabeth at their cottage in Cambridge where he was a fellow of Churchill College . |
| 23 | Mike Fibbins , who like Ruckwood was unable to produce his best at the Barcelona Olympics , also bounced back with victory in the 50 metres freestyle . |
| 24 | With the BaByliss BodyToner Plus you can treat yourself to wonderful massages and get back into shape at the same time . |
| 25 | England battled hard to get back into contention throughout the second half , but the Scots kept them at arm 's length and ran out worthy winners . |
| 26 | IRELAND 'S bowlers bounced right back into contention in the Men 's U-25 Home International Championships in Carlisle yesterday when they shrugged off an opening match defeat from England to beat Scotland and stay in contention for the title . |
| 27 | The Chinese have given just enough support to the allies to bring themselves back into favour with the western governments , particularly America 's , that had spurned them after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 . |
| 28 | From there they brought us back into back of the citadel . |
| 29 | Respectable England did not have the stomach for such a drastic curtailment of civil liberties , however , and although fearful of how to absorb the most noxious criminal elements back into society without the option of packing them off to the colonies , the deliberations of the mid-1850s bogged down in suggestions for more effective surveillance of ‘ ticket-of-leave ’ men , together with some wishful thinking about reviving transportation in some form or another . |
| 30 | They were quickly fitted with track brakes and put back into service on the Crystal Palace route still in Croydon Corporation livery , in which they ran for several weeks , before being sent to Hendon in turn for repainting and renumbering . |