Example sentences of "back [prep] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | TRAVEL BACK THROUGH 1900 YEARS OF HISTORY |
| 2 | And they came back for another fortnight of re-building ! |
| 3 | ‘ But I might just feign insanity some day and come back for another cup of that damned fine coffee . ’ |
| 4 | it re and he came back after eight years of of not working there and he came in hello Barbara ! |
| 5 | I remembered I had a pistol if I needed it , and turned back towards this man of the island . |
| 6 | Cripps , speaking on behalf of the East Bristol Labour Party , moved the reference back of this section of the Executive Report but won only 331,000 votes against the 2 , l16,000 votes for the National Executive 's condemnation of the Unity Campaign . |
| 7 | Tarred poles are laden with electrical wires looped out and pinned back like huge bunches of charred bananas . |
| 8 | Infuriated by the glint of triumph in his deep blue eyes , she managed to get herself back under some sort of control , though the rivers he 'd sent surging through her body with his kisses were far from still . |
| 9 | He came back with two slices of dark brown bread and a semi-transparent lump of fat on the top . |
| 10 | Zambia came back with two plates of food and sat down again . |
| 11 | Paul Lane came back with two plates of scrambled eggs and buttered toast . |
| 12 | Then , of course , the other side was his interest in Child Education , and he had been more or less in the outset of the exciting development which had been going on in Vienna , and had come back with all kinds of ideas . |
| 13 | do more than , oh look , wonder if he 's Jewish look in that back with that star of David flag in that back ground |
| 14 | A minute later , when she 'd got control of herself , Drew was back with another glass of vodka and orange . |
| 15 | Dwayne comes back with another round of beers . |
| 16 | She thought back with bitter awareness of what the astrologer had told her when she had read her charts . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's called Titian , ’ she said , pushing her waves back with vigorous sweeps of her hands as if to deny its attraction to men . |
| 18 | Well and we have seen one response for people now making Mill that is that his objections are not being finessed by computer technology , they do n't want to get back into that type of argument , because this is really not the most important argument against direct democracy . |
| 19 | That questions and recriminations would creep in later she had little doubt , but for the moment she simply wanted to shut out the rest of the world , to step back into that circle of magic they had created , first in the pool , then in the factory car park when they had somehow made the rest of the world go away . |
| 20 | Peyton did move back into some degree of opposition ( now called Whig ) contact , and he was involved on the peripheries of the 1682–3 Rye House plot . |
| 21 | From the lochan you turn north-east , back into some semblance of peace . |
| 22 | ‘ Ballad Of The White Horse ’ starts beautifully and threatens to break down , with Louise babbling like she 's speaking in tongues before bringing it all back into some semblance of melodic order . |
| 23 | ‘ Ballad Of The White Horse ’ starts beautifully and threatens to break down , with Louise babbling like she 's speaking in tongues before bringing it all back into some semblance of melodic order . |
| 24 | Brushing her hair back , she sat at the desk , trying to force her thoughts back into some semblance of order . |
| 25 | Here , after all , was a President prepared to take the economy seriously and to begin the long process of hauling it back into some semblance of order . |
| 26 | She was just a girl with a sweet smile and a pretty face , her hair drawn back into some kind of fishnet behind . |
| 27 | The West Indies captain was applauded all the way to the wicket , then seemed to play himself back into some sort of form . |
| 28 | At some time , you 'll have to come back into some sort of a system like G C S Es if , if they 're , I mean they might be changed , but there 'll be something like |
| 29 | It was n't until later , when Robyn heard Anne 's key in the lock , that she realised just how long she had been staring into space , miserably going over and over the disastrous weekend , in a futile attempt to try and put it all back into some sort of perspective . |
| 30 | She nodded , and tugging her clothes back into some sort of order , she went to the door . |