Example sentences of "back [prep] the [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked back through the many pages she had written , and saw the great names glitter there — Proclus , Plotinus , Iamblichus , Ficino , Pico , Agrippa . |
| 2 | I shall not , however , let my hon. Friend hold me back during the few minutes that I shall use to unbridle myself . |
| 3 | Joyce Anderson , of Thornton Hough , said : ‘ We are not really in a race against time , the winners will be the party who come back with the fewest miles on their clock . |
| 4 | I walked the glen many times , and looked back on the few trees , lying far in the hollow , that grow near the place where the massacre is said to have begun ; while on either side were deep rock-lined , tree and fern-fringed chasms , leading into seclusions and bleak mountain summits , one could spend long hours exploring . |
| 5 | I 've got my old job back on the same terms and I 'm delighted . |
| 6 | Despite these dangers many birds find their way back to the same spots year after year . |
| 7 | Second , the affection for medievalism is literary before it is architectural , and architects themselves invariably refer it back to the same lines from Milton 's Il Penseroso ( c.1631 ) : |
| 8 | But of course it is nice to come back to the same places over and over again , sort of er see friendly faces . |
| 9 | In their over-all coverage , therefore Genesis and the tradition represented by Atrakhasis look back to the same events . |
| 10 | But they went back to the same orphanages which were grim.There was a determination to help them . |