Example sentences of "back [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Adam looked back through the split in the gates , he saw Curly Top , saw the evil hatred in his eyes . |
| 2 | They walked back through the orchard in silence and when they reached the garden , Bunny turned off abruptly towards the stables . |
| 3 | Then he snaked back through the house in silence , arriving at the front door just a couple of seconds ahead of her . |
| 4 | He played only once in that series but was then brought back for the rubber in India and made a big impact , so that when he had Steele 's wicket at Headingley he chalked up his hundredth Test wicket in the record time of two years 144 days . |
| 5 | I 'll be back for the tray in two ticks . ’ |
| 6 | They walked back towards the lawn in a procession at the pace of Richard 's small strides until he stumbled over a tussock of grass , admitted that he was tired and accepted a ride on the detective 's shoulders . |
| 7 | Then he moved back towards the circle in the grass on the other side of the road . |
| 8 | Section 9(4) , which operates at the time of the application for an order under the Act , looks back towards the time in relation to which the witness would give evidence if an order was made and not forward to the time at which he would do so . |
| 9 | The consequence of turning an aggressive , egoistic drive back against the self in this characteristic way was to turn egoism into altruism , and aggression into self-punishment and guilt . |
| 10 | But the stranger had already turned and walked off into the night , back along the towpath in the direction from which he 'd come . |
| 11 | Rattled , he fell back onto the truckle-bed in a welter of trousers . |
| 12 | If I can get it back onto the road in one piece , I think it will survive . ’ |
| 13 | Those are the headlines I 'll be back with the news in detail at one o'clock . |
| 14 | He looks at a wooden fence , a section of which was ripped away when the dead man fell back with the bullet in his heart , and he suggests what must have happened . |
| 15 | If all goes well , the peregrine could be released back into the wild in 3 months time . |
| 16 | Some of the heavier elements produced near the end of the star 's life would be flung back into the gas in the galaxy , and would provide some of the raw material for the next generation of stars . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , when you use a vibrato bar guitar , when you hit the strings really hard , a lot of the vibration gets transferred to the springs and back into the bar in a sort of flutter and I really do n't like that sound at all . |
| 18 | The economy moved back into the black in February after a Dm412m deficit during January but the latest Dm1.6 billion surplus is still well below the comparable Dm2.1 billion a year earlier . |
| 19 | THE discos and snooker halls group , European Leisure , currently embroiled in a Serious Fraud Office investigation , has moved back into the black in its first half-year to 31 December . |
| 20 | Once the water has turned the generator , it will be discharged back into the river in exactly the same state and volume as abstracted . |
| 21 | He woke her gently , and as the mists sank back into the river in the sunlight , they made love . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm very proud of my guys ’ , said Dick , ‘ through them Dick Melton Aviation has put two vintage aircraft back into the air in the space of six months ’ . |
| 23 | The presbyterians also had misgivings , and only came back into the system in 1838 when they were practically guaranteed control of their own schools within it . |
| 24 | Although I believe that hysteria , as classically defined , can provide only a part of the answer to the problem of anorexia nervosa , it is a starting-point and , in the light of Szasz 's observation that ‘ hysterical conversion is best regarded as a process of translation , ’ I propose to translate the history of my own symptoms back into the language in which they were intended to be expressed . |
| 25 | Because the father has been fit and active any available capital had no doubt been put back into the farm in the form of land improvement , buildings , etc . |
| 26 | And they 're not coming back for their education ; they 're coming back for the support that Arbour gives them , so they may spend more time with Monica in the nursery looking after the baby and gradually they 'll move back into the classroom in their own time and get back to their exams . |
| 27 | I could n't go back into the office in this state . |
| 28 | The houses were spacious , detached , each one built to an individual design and set back from the road in well-kept gardens : it was the posh part of town . |
| 29 | Standing back from the road in its own grounds , it commanded an extensive view of the sea to the south and the patchwork of stone walls and green fields to the north . |
| 30 | The Laurels was a very nice house on the edge of the town standing back from the road in a large garden . |