Example sentences of "back [prep] the [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rhodium sales slipped back during the year as car companies utilised strategic stocks rather than purchase new metal . |
| 2 | We 're just taking a bag , we 'll come back for the rest when the wind 's gone down . " |
| 3 | But yesterday , on his 91st birthday , Trafford , whose wife died in sheltered accommodation four years ago , told a community nursing conference in London that , though a Tory voter all his life who thought most of what Mrs Thatcher was doing was good , he saw a danger that old people might be heading back towards the workhouse if the Government went ahead with NHS cuts and changes in community care . |
| 4 | Her eyes swung back towards Marlin , who was asking her if she was all right , then back towards the street as brakes shrieked , and the failed assassin was struck squarely by a speeding car , which reeled round , wheels locked and sliding over the sleet-greased street , throwing the man 's body off the bonnet and over a parked car . |
| 5 | He came up off the floor in one swift , powerful lunge , slamming the full force of his body into Boisson and driving him back towards the dungeon before the man could gather himself for another swing . |
| 6 | He quietly took them to the back of the house before they left . |
| 7 | Moments later the parade was dismissed and while others returned to their tents Charlie walked slowly back behind the lines until he reached the mass burial ground . |
| 8 | She fell back against the wall as he lifted her skirt . |
| 9 | ‘ Terrified ? ’ he laughed softly , leaning easily back against the door as he studied her pale face . |
| 10 | When you knit with the main bed alone , the sinker plate does more than hold the yarn ; it holds the knitting back against the machine while the needles move forward . |
| 11 | He might also press back against the plinth when he tried to move his seat or legs . |
| 12 | She was pressed back against the seat as Fergus accelerated again . |
| 13 | I was doing a three-point-turn manoeuvre to get us back onto the road when he woke up , lifted his hat and mumbled : ‘ Where are we ? ’ |
| 14 | That 's not too bad actually except the day the young men loaded it back onto the trailer when we 'd finished and it was one of these corners , and I happened to be muggins on the corner where that lever was , and he had n't tied it , it was only in the ratchet , you know , he should have tied it of course . |
| 15 | The Business Plan goes back with the letter because they will require a copy of the business plan so that they when they see you at three , six , twelve and eighteen months |
| 16 | And the then manager , Brian Rose ( now back with the county as chairman of the cricket committee ) , hopped on the next plane . |
| 17 | I ease back with the gun so he has room to move . |
| 18 | Some are recovering from being injured in road accidents , and will be released back into the wild when they can fend for themselves . |
| 19 | Still , it was great to see them go back into the wild when they were old enough . ’ |
| 20 | It is hoped to released the bird back into the wild when it is fully recovered . |
| 21 | He was just about to plunge back into the streets when he saw someone running towards him . |
| 22 | Harrison Ford stars as a former CIA man lured back into the fray after he becomes the target of the IRA . |
| 23 | Our meeting then broke up , Mandeville stalking back into the hall whilst we returned to our chambers . |
| 24 | Bones obliged him in everything he asked , even shaking him tenderly back into the saddle when he flew up round his ears or slipped tailwards . |
| 25 | Working with with the with the cow man , but I very soon got tired , I 'd be begging to be allowed back into the stable because the horses were my first love . |
| 26 | Pro-Europeans were no happier as he stated that sterling would not go back into the ERM until changes were made . |
| 27 | However , the Government made it plain that they intended to go back into the ERM when they judged the moment to be right . |
| 28 | If anything happened to the computer and it proved impossible to get at the data inside , you could go to your back-up diskettes and simply copy the data back into the computer when it had been repaired , or replaced , or put it onto another computer . |
| 29 | Philip ran back down to the bit of broken fencing , climbed through and got back into the kitchen as the local news ended . |
| 30 | And low and behold you ca n't even get back into the kitchen because the kitchen is full of deadly fumes from the burning fat or er fat or oil within the chip pan . |