Example sentences of "back [prep] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | To look back through a history of censorship in libraries is an instructive and fascinating experience ( and there is no better way than through Thompson 's Censorship in public libraries in the United Kingdom during the Twentieth Century ) . |
| 2 | He parked the car a street away and walked back through a gauntlet of whispers and stony smiles . |
| 3 | She flicked back through a number of the loose-leaf pages , quickly at first and then slowing as the date that she was seeking came closer . |
| 4 | You ca n't save calculations , but you can track back through a chain of arithmetic , alter figures , and see the alterations reflected in the final sum . |
| 5 | The transaction seems to embarrass him because he insists on carrying it out in the corridor out of sight of his secretary , whose fluffy blue feet have just slipped and slid back through the door of his office . |
| 6 | If he could root back through the maze of moment and incident , would he find premonitory signs sticking out like dire figurations of chicken entrails ? |
| 7 | I asked as we turned our backs on the Pacific and began working our way back through the maze of walls and rubble . |
| 8 | In a journey back through the history of crime and delinquency , Pearson shows that for generations Britain has been plagued by the same problems and fears as today . |
| 9 | Modernization conceived as differentiation is of course the linchpin of Parsonian sociology , but can be traced back through the work of Weber and even of Lukács to the aesthetic writings of the mature Hegel ( Ká0tz 1982 ) . |
| 10 | Formed by looping the pile yarn across two warp strands and then drawing each end back through the inside of both warps . |
| 11 | The supply chain project seeks to achieve this by focusing on future customer needs and driving them back through the activities of the business to make Guinness Brewing GB operate as effectively as possible for the company and its customers . |
| 12 | Turn back through the pages of ancient history books on Venice and as far back as the year 1740 you will find tell of a friendly hostelry providing a refuge to weary travellers on this hotel 's site . |
| 13 | What will future travellers remember as they look back through the mist of time ? |
| 14 | I said my goodbyes to the head of the House of Timur ; Pakeezah offered to lead me back through the labyrinth of Daryaganj to the Faiz Bazaar . |
| 15 | ‘ We ca n't just drive back through the middle of St Denis , ’ Rogers said . |
| 16 | Walking through the ancient forest of Wychwood , EV Thompson steps back through the mists of time . |
| 17 | By the Middle Ages the river had gradually cut back through the neck of land at this side of the rise , until it cut right through to where it runs now . |
| 18 | County prosecutor Matthias Heck said : ‘ One of the victims , a man killed as his house was ransacked , was not discovered until we began tracing back through the string of stolen cars . |
| 19 | Jerking back from the dais , the Doctor slipped back through the circle of megaliths . |
| 20 | Scrabbling to his feet again , he hurled himself back through the throat of the storm , seized the reception door and savagely slammed it shut . |
| 21 | In short , it may be illuminating to start with the damage and work back through the cause of it to the possible duty which may have been broken . |
| 22 | The two restored to Christian commitment and active church membership were brought back through the testimony of their teenage son and daughter . |
| 23 | Use that ‘ eye ’ to hold the end of the Spectra line as it is pulled back through the length of the braid until an inch or 25mm emerges . |
| 24 | Then the train went into reverse , motors growling , occupants groaning , and trundled slowly back through the squalls of rain , passing Maryhill and looping down through Anniesland and over Great Western Road . |
| 25 | I do n't personally believe in reincarnation , but knowing my luck I 'd either come back as a pair of Ian 's boxer shorts or an amoeba . |
| 26 | Eventually she got up , removed the bung once more with a gloved hand , and stepped back as a tongue of yellow flame licked out at her . |
| 27 | He was philosophical , not to say laid back about the inconvenience of being called out unnecessarily at the end of what had already been a long day . |
| 28 | The gipsies looked so threatening that she thought they were going to attack Angela 's father , but Farmer Yatton stood his ground , and presently the gipsies , grumbling loudly , began to move their horses , which they had unharnessed , back between the shafts of the caravans . |
| 29 | In part two : Getting even.Swindon fight back for a share of the points . |
| 30 | Would n't it be a poor thing to have the man close his shop and walk back for a kind of half-hearted snack . |