Example sentences of "back [prep] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wriggled in outrage , but when he caught her head between his hands , pulling back for a few moments to stare intently into her face , she stopped fighting . |
| 2 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 3 | In one instance , a stock of thousands of BBC props had been sold off this year for £75,000 yet the BBC later spent £1,100 renting just three items back for a few weeks . |
| 4 | ‘ If Steve does n't come back for a few days I 'll probably have to go into Palma and see the airlines and the tourist board myself . ’ |
| 5 | The attendant came back after a few minutes , its little red boots ruffling the hem of its robe . |
| 6 | Some of the nomes scouted around the sheds and came back with a few vegetables that had been missed , but it was a pitifully small amount . |
| 7 | Mummy will come back in a few minutes , wo n't she , for Susie ? ’ |
| 8 | I 'll be back in a few minutes . ’ |
| 9 | I did n't want to leave the Maxteds behind because they had started out as my passengers , so I went back in a few minutes later to see if they were ready to leave . |
| 10 | I 'll be back in a few minutes for our little talk . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Expect me back in a few minutes , ’ she heard him say distantly . |
| 12 | She came back in a few minutes , looking very serious . |
| 13 | Grant , the people could come back in a few minutes |
| 14 | We will be reporting back in a few weeks ' time about this case and whether we have achieved a lasting and muzzle-free peace treaty between the battling Yorkies ! |
| 15 | They went away thanking her for her help , and promised to come back in a few weeks ' time when Bruno 's booster injection was due . |
| 16 | so she 's got to go back in a few weeks ' time |
| 17 | Come back in a few years , eh ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll be back in a few days with your orders . ’ |
| 19 | Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time . |
| 20 | I mean , we could go back in a few days and I could distract her while you … ’ |
| 21 | wait a bit , and they said so , they looked at it and said we 'd have to take it back in a few days time for them to do , they could n't do it there and then . |
| 22 | when we send it back in a few days fitting , this job I says we 'll want it early in the morning and you can have it in the afternoon , but we were going to spend the day in Liverpool , but you 're dad said , I 'm not being round all those shops all day , so I said ooh no ! |
| 23 | According to Melbourne Sunday Press reporter Dennis Williams , the paper interviewed a hypnotist , Mr Bill Bakha , who claimed to have taken Kylie back to a former life as a waif called Caitrin in 19th century Ireland . |
| 24 | Cut the rootstock back to a few inches high . |
| 25 | Cut all main branches back to a few inches long and for each prepare 2–3 scions of the new variety as for whip and tongue grafting , but trim their bases to a long wedge shape . |
| 26 | Budgetary concerns and the drive for self-sufficiency ( UX No 374 ) , are forcing OSF to retract back to a few core technologies like DCE , DME and Motif , and to hold off on any further technology requests . |
| 27 | think back to a few years back when I was in training about a job and you might still think it now , but I could n't give , put ideas over to somebody on one-to-one training . |