Example sentences of "back [prep] the [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he caught up with the spectators following the last match he picked up the information that had filtered back through the crowd 's grapevine . |
| 2 | Wexford went back through the Cullam 's living room . |
| 3 | ‘ He came back for the church 's centenary , ’ Mr Hickman recalled . |
| 4 | yeah and like learning my Romeo and Ju I think I might actually sit down on Sunday and learn that cos I 'm gon na be at home but I , it 's quite good I 'll , I 'll see Foxy when I get back in the evening because parents have got ta come back for the parents ' meeting . |
| 5 | Léonie wheeled , scrambled back past the baker 's , and fled along the boulevard edged with limes that led to the church and the walled cemetery , to the lane beyond . |
| 6 | Tom hesitated for a moment and then walked hurriedly on to the small road back towards the artist 's shop . |
| 7 | The uppers , though , curl around grow up through the skin of the nose and , still curling , turn back towards the animal 's forehead . |
| 8 | Everyone picked up their travelling bags and in a straggle more than a group walked back towards the passengers ' assembly area . |
| 9 | Group A will be using the Stanley Library which is directly opposite where you 've just had coffee , and Group C will be using the Reception Room which is back towards the Porter 's Lodge on the right hand side . |
| 10 | The Dwarfs inside Kislev attempted to break out to help Magnus but they were contained and forced back behind the city 's walls . |
| 11 | The cymbals are then ‘ damped ’ immediately after striking by drawing them sharply back against the player 's body . |
| 12 | At dawn , they sidle back under the sea 's edge . |
| 13 | Although the advance tax would be payable on the special dividends , it could be clawed back under the Chancellor 's proposed scheme . |
| 14 | Turning left back along the Duomo 's side , you are between the outside of the northern transept and La Rinascente , a modern shopping area built in 1950 to replace one destroyed during World War II . |
| 15 | He soon had it back with Granny 's belongings intact , and I could hardly believe my ears and eyes when I heard her thank him and allow him to lift her back onto the driver 's seat , in gratitude for which she kissed him on the cheek . |
| 16 | The chitin-rich liquid is then absorbed through the still permeable new skeleton back into the insect 's body . |
| 17 | Under Aelfwald the kingship passed back into the archbishop 's own family — the descendants of Leodwald ( see Appendix , Fig. 9 ) , to whom Aethelberht , as a kinsman of Ecgberht , will have been related . |
| 18 | Georg slammed the door shut , climbed back into the driver 's seat , started the engine , and put his foot on the accelerator even before his father was properly in . |
| 19 | ‘ They can be a devil , ’ Guido told her , climbing back into the driver 's seat . |
| 20 | At the one-way door that led back into the station 's tiny foyer and reception area , she stepped aside for him and said , ‘ I hope you find her . ’ |
| 21 | Hering stated that a cure should proceed : from above , downwards — from the head or upper regions of the body down towards the feet ; from within , out — from the internal organs out to the joints or skin ; from more important to less important organs — from the liver , heart or lungs out to the joints or skin ; from the present backwards in time — going back into the patient 's medical history . |
| 22 | Once the design is safely stored a way on tape or disc it can be quickly loaded back into the computer 's memory . |
| 23 | The Minister is backing away from the commitment that the Scottish Transport Group and the Government gave , and is now saying that the money must go back into the Treasury 's coffers . |
| 24 | The Scots include six full caps against the visitors ' four , and for four of the forwards , Martin Scott , Chris Gray , David McIvor , playing at No8 , and Ian Smith , the match , sponsored by Total Oil Marine International , provides them with the opportunity to get back into the selectors ' good books . |
| 25 | The Scots include six full caps against the visitors ' four , and for four of the forwards , Martin Scott , Chris Gray , David McIvor , playing at No8 , and Ian Smith , the match , sponsored by Total Oil Marine International , provides them with the opportunity to get back into the selectors ' good books . |
| 26 | Grant Simons presents a view of the inside of the North American XB-70 Valkyrie at the USAF Museum and looks back into the type 's turbulent past |
| 27 | Then lift the front foot high and hook it back into the opponent 's head . |
| 28 | The appalled producer took refuge in the unions and his insurance company , and Fred and Arthur composed their faces into the necessary combination of artistic bloody-mindedness and guestly sympathy to scotch the project without actually seeming to throw their good lunch back into the producer 's face . |
| 29 | It burns on average 12–16 tonnes of waste per day and generates a maximum of 5600lbs of steam per hour at 200 psi , which is pressure reduced and recycled back into the hospital 's own system . |
| 30 | The process of rehearsal draws upon a training which often reaches back into the singer 's boyhood , which provides him with the directed quickness of mind and the vocal stamina he requires , and which ensures that the choral results are generally quite passable and are sometimes excellent despite the constant absences , deputizations , hirings and firings that always threaten the homogeneity of what can be achieved . |