Example sentences of "back [prep] the [noun] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Can you come back during the week when it 's less busy ? ’ asked the assistant . |
| 2 | Investors have been expecting its publication for the last two weeks but are fearful it will be kept back for the week when Parliament goes into the Christmas recess . |
| 3 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 4 | To obscure more recent failure , it was possible to dip back into the time when the championship-winning sides flowed . |
| 5 | Mr Whittington proved that the LCC had got themselves a very good orator to transfer back from the EMS when war was over . |
| 6 | In 1753 , 237 years before the days when 50 taxis lined Ingram Street at two o'clock on a Tuesday morning , back in the days when Ingram Street was a muddy avenue leading to a country house , sedan-chairs were being pushed aside by state-of-the-art horse cabs . |
| 7 | And then there was the one that never got published , back in the days when the Labour Party was the people 's party and affairs were run by the National Executive Committee , which was run by the trade unions . |
| 8 | Back in the days when he 'd lived in a hole in a bank , Masklin had spent far too much time cold and wet to turn up his nose at a chance to sleep warm and dry . |
| 9 | A Aequidens rivulatus got its common name back in the days when medium-sized fish were few and far between and by the standards then it was a Terror of an aquarium fish . |
| 10 | Wendt , a noted hardcore fan way back in the days when Nirvana were still a mod band , has been presenting the acts on Saturday Night Live for some years . |
| 11 | Back in the days when a groat and a half , etc . |
| 12 | Back in the days when he had yet concerned himself with the world . |
| 13 | She 'd found her way to Charlie through another of the contact magazines , back in the days when his wife had been handling that end of the business ; she 'd had to send along a photograph and that had gone a little against the grain — in all of her moonlighting so far , she 'd never let slip so much as her name — but everything had worked out well . |
| 14 | Most spreadsheets were designed back in the days when 640KBytes was the maximum amount of memory that was available . |
| 15 | That was back in the days when there were too many manufacturers and too few customers . |
| 16 | I remember you from when I was a kid , back in the days when you do n't remember me . ’ |
| 17 | You can bring it back in the morning when you pick up your own . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Looking back on the time when I was really big , around 1979 , I was the saddest and most miserablest I 've ever been . |
| 19 | Looking back on the period when he was seriously searching as a fourteen-year-old ( and for a man with a mind of Russell 's breadth this was no ‘ mere adolescence ’ ) , he described it like this : |
| 20 | After completing the airshow routine , John was on the homeward flight back to the UK when he ran into bad weather . |
| 21 | In only a very few pages , we have left the twentieth century far behind and discovered that these two descend from the Lombardic heroes mentioned in the Old English poem Widsith ( Aelfwin and Eadwin ) ; and since Aelfvin means ‘ Elf-friend ’ , we are not surprised to find ourselves drifting further back to the times when elves still walked the earth , before Numenor ( the Atlantis of the Tolkien mythology ) had sunk beneath the waves . |
| 22 | The idea is that if elderly people can be encouraged to think back to the times when they had lots of relationships , and when they felt they had some status and worth , then they are able to feel that status carry over more into their present life . |
| 23 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 24 | Go back to the moment when you first met and remember how it felt . |
| 25 | He thought back to the moment when he and Sophie were inside Singer 's flat : the bed littered with clothes hangers , the dim light , the stale air . |
| 26 | The memory was only a couple of minutes old , but he felt that scrap of the past unravel to bring him back to the moment when she said , ‘ I 'd been out to meet someone . |
| 27 | Now if we can go back to the period when the eighty odd agreements was developed into one national agreement , it seemed to break up what we would term a big happy family . |
| 28 | He also thinks it is important to build such a museum , as Japan and Britain have a long historical relationship dating back to the seventeenth-century when William Adams came to Japan on a Dutch ship . |
| 29 | The logical crisis went back to the time when he first started to read philosophy as an undergraduate and related to his reading of the English Idealist philosophers , as well as to his return ( for the purposes of passing his exams , and later as a tutor ) to the English empiricists of the eighteenth century . |
| 30 | But if film executives were to be believed , the majority of the audience was less interested in salving their fears about wars and conflicts ahead than in looking back to the time when Britain had a role to play in the world . |