Example sentences of "back [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The family historian 's initial task of tracing his ancestors back through the nineteenth century is relatively straightforward , thanks to the information provided by civil registration certificates and census returns and by standardized Church of England registers . |
| 2 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 3 | The first players then have to blow the balloons back for the second person to take over . |
| 4 | the idea was there and the structure and everything was there it was just that you had n't actually explained what you had to do first , you know , to come back with the erm recommendations erm but you did , you did get the date confirmed to come back for the second appointment which was good . |
| 5 | I hope to be back for the first leg with Manchester United . |
| 6 | Jazz tossed his hair back for the first time to take in what was going on . |
| 7 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |
| 8 | Yeah , I know he 's admitted it already that does n't mean we 're not gon na get you back for the first time you fucking did it ! |
| 9 | ‘ It 's not snowing so heavily now , ’ he said , on climbing back for the sixth time . |
| 10 | Oh it 's it it 's on a it 's on erm it 's on a plate so you er I do n't mind I 'm , you know I do n't mind not getting it back for the next month . |
| 11 | ‘ When you 've finished , it 'll look like a snooker table , ’ he said cheerfully , and , reversing deftly , he went back for the next lot . |
| 12 | Anyway , we met up , and we never did get back for the last act . |
| 13 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
| 14 | However , despite the setbacks , the game bounced back after the Second World War and , in a similar way to the developments in France and Romania at the turn of the century , it made inroads into Soviet universities . |
| 15 | William Tallack , who as Secretary of the Howard Association had experience of criminal affairs reaching back towards the mid-nineteenth century , was among those who took this line . |
| 16 | Relegation followed , and the hopelessly over-stretched club were sliding back towards the Fourth Division when Toshack resigned in 1984 . |
| 17 | Its lineage reaches back , via the accusations against the Hollywood ‘ talkies ’ and the earliest silent movies , through and beyond the Music Halls at the turn of the century when directly similar complaints were voiced , towards the cheap theatres and penny-gaffs of early Victorian England when it was commonly alleged that the portrayal of the daring exploits of Jack Sheppard and Dick Turpin caused young people to imitate their crimes , and then back towards the eighteenth century 's disapproval of popular amusements such as fairs , interludes , public shows and minor theatres . |
| 18 | As the linker needle comes back with the second stitch in its hook , the latch of the linker needle closes and the first stitch goes over the latch of the linker needle and is cast off . |
| 19 | But in an hour , with the bridge awash , Harriet was back with the second cub . |
| 20 | We are back with the ninth century as a historiographical battleground : " It was the best of times , it was the worst of times … " |
| 21 | To begin with , there was the accumulated pre-war experience , which stretched back into the nineteenth century , of labour being the cheap factor of production — an attitude reflected in the slow development of cost-accounting in Britain . |
| 22 | To step outside the church today , back into the twentieth century , is to awaken abruptly to our modern ‘ sophistication ’ . |
| 23 | The fact that we have bombed Iraq , a rather small Third World country , back into the 19th century or even earlier ; the likelihood of continuing violence in the Middle East ; the probable Lebanisation of Iraq and Kuwait the increasing difficulty in finding a solution to the Palestinian problem ; the increased threat of terrorism ; the erosion of democracy — all these issues will stimulate opposition to a long-term North-South confrontation . |
| 24 | John Payne says the ambition now is to get back into the first division |
| 25 | Now he is out of action again after fighting his way back into the first team . |
| 26 | Baronness Warnock ( Ind ) , whose 1986 report forms the basis of the bill , said it would be a paradox if ‘ we democratic and increasingly educated people should … put ourselves back into the 17th century , when the question of whether or not Galileo and indeed Descartes might pursue and publish their scientific findings was regulated not by scientific considerations , but by religious considerations . ’ |
| 27 | He was not amused , although I think his pride was hurt more than anything else , but he did move his chair this time — right back into the second row ! |
| 28 | Beginning their new season in the third division of the Paisley & District League , the Stoddard Carpets football team are fighting to get back into the second division where they were last year . |
| 29 | In the 5 years with Maxwell junior at the helm , the club has dropped back into the second division and shows debts of up to £4.5 million . |
| 30 | It was a movement whose history went back into the Second World War , into the New York clubs that had bred Charlie Parker , Dizzy Gillespie , and the new jazz of be-bop . |