Example sentences of "back [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jazz tossed his hair back for the first time to take in what was going on . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not snowing so heavily now , ’ he said , on climbing back for the sixth time . |
| 5 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
| 6 | Yep … thanks Chappie … you helped pull us back into the big time and gave us a lot of enjoyment ( even when you fell over when trying to control the ball : - ) . |
| 7 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 8 | So , Slon , how do you feel about Zagrat , looking back from the freak time ? ’ asked the bimbo interviewer . |
| 9 | Later in life he looked back upon the married time of his professorship at Durham as an idyll ; the paradisal years of his life . |
| 10 | And along the top of the wall where once , back in the peaceful times , you set pieces of broken glass , you now run razor wire , each tine designed for maximum snag . |
| 11 | Warwick , 38 , and a veteran of 131 Grands Prix , won the world sportscar championship with Peugeot this year and has been itching for a chance to get back in the big time of Formula One . |
| 12 | BANNISTER : Back in the big time thanks to Clough |
| 13 | At the end of the session , I brought Maxine back to the present time and out of the hypnotic state and asked her what she felt . |
| 14 | Now bring it back to the modern time of the five day week , what is two fifths , or what are two fifths of the wage ? |
| 15 | When one goes back to the real time in which we live , however , there will still appear to be singularities . |
| 16 | You ge you forget yourself do n't you and you go back to the two times table , we 're on threes now . |
| 17 | Now , going back to the first time Mahoney was shot . |
| 18 | I travelled up from Kings Cross with Sidney , Daryl Bligh of the Graphic , K. B. D. Clarke of the Times , ‘ Tibby ’ Tisdale of the News , Stanford Roberts , of course , and I think we had Norton Malley with us , who would at that time I suppose have been on the Morning Post , though he later went back to the Irish Times . |
| 19 | So it was a case there , and course at the end of the day you rolled the little roll up , put elastic round and stood them up in a file and they stood there like little soldiers and you could always go back to the actual time , sometimes you found a man had n't re erm signed on , he 'd just gone and joined his bus up in town centre , well you , that was er subject of another letter . |
| 20 | Keegan spelled out the philosophy which is steering the Geordies back to the big time under multi-millionaire chairman Sir John Hall . |
| 21 | But maybe ye 'll be different , ye just want a taste of the exotic life and then ye 'll go back to the big time . ’ |
| 22 | Or something perhaps … moving through space forwards but back at the same time , as if I consisted of anti-matter for ever cancelled out … as if in all our words and gestures , acts and attitudes we effected some sort of parallel penetration into whatever had originated them , their primeval atom , with built-in unstableness. ( 107–108/303–4 ) |
| 23 | She rubbed her back at the same time ; bending to the floor had hurt her . |
| 24 | Scotland Today is back at the same time on Monday . |
| 25 | It is no good not following those rules and then worrying when your teenager is not back at the expected time , looking nervously at the clock and twitching the curtains every time a car pulls up in your road . |