Example sentences of "back [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accepting this , some members of the British Government seem to have fallen back on to the second misconception . |
| 2 | Eastwood admitted : ‘ I was upset at missing out in the World Cup final and really do want to get back on to the international scene as quickly as possible . |
| 3 | Ma stretches her lips and lowers her head back on to the headrest . |
| 4 | ’ Li Shai Tung nodded and eased himself back on to the great saddle of a turtle shell that was placed beside the pool . |
| 5 | And true enough , after an afternoon weaving a poem back on to the frayed ends of a loom of broken rhymes , I had leapt up and punched the air with determination . |
| 6 | We are now working on ideas to get our lists back on to the mainstream networks as well , ’ he added . |
| 7 | Success came overnight in neither case ; but a slow and steady improvement did take place , hauled back on to the right track at intervals by taking out the original contract and referring yet again to the agreed terms . |
| 8 | He did lose the lines on more than one occasion and threshed around helplessly through pauses that seemed eternal , until the A.S.M. 's quiet voice in his ear managed to get him back on to the right track . |
| 9 | By then the working class had made it back on to the front page , if only in a supporting role . |
| 10 | I sorted out old toys into boxes , got a few rolls of carpet and wallpaper back into their places from where they 'd fallen , pinned a couple of maps back on to the sloping wooden under-roof , cleared away some of the tools and bits and pieces that I 'd used to repair the Factory , and loaded the various sections of the Factory that needed to be loaded . |
| 11 | As it happened , the entire episode was resolved after The Smiths decided to repoen communications with the label and a somewhat confused Easterhouse were invited back on to the Scottish tour . |
| 12 | He turned abruptly away and Willie followed him up the lane and back on to the main street . |
| 13 | Driving with difficulty through torrential rain while thunder and lightning crashed overhead , Jack found himself in a narrow West Country lane , realising that he had missed the turning that would have brought him back on to the main road . |
| 14 | Besides , Adam had said it was a long detour to get back on to the main road , if this lane was cut off . |
| 15 | The friar then made his way back on to the main highway , past the Priory of St Mary Overy and across London Bridge . |
| 16 | There seemed nothing at all , no way of climbing back on to the free wheel of conversation they had somehow set going the other night . |
| 17 | The planning principles adopted included keeping the common circulation areas and services central — all-internal kitchens and bathrooms back on to the spinal corridor which occupies the central strip of the former nave space ( Fig 45 ) . |
| 18 | Faced with a mounting burden of debt , Edward II tried to shift the burden of support back on to the local communities . |
| 19 | Corbett joined them and waited for the tankards to empty before good-naturedly bullying Ranulf into collecting their horses and making their way back on to the deserted track to Godstowe . |
| 20 | Thus far The Buddha of Suburbia is autobiographical : thereafter Karim and Hanif go their separate ways , only getting back on to the same tracks when they both flee north of the river to west London . |
| 21 | That 's the danger of a book as seductive as this one , the memories come flooding back along with the great names : Bobby Collins , Tommy Ring , Roy Vernon , Jimmy Gabriel , Colin Harvey , Joe Royle , Gary Lineker , T.G. Jones , John Hurst , Jimmy Husband , Kevin Ratcliffe , Tony Kay . |
| 22 | If that is excluded , then we come back down towards the twenty five hectares . |
| 23 | But then you might worry , if I 'm bound to come back down again , how can I guarantee that I come back down into the right erm body again . |
| 24 | Andrew Cunningham , who had been fortunate in having been one of the men brought up to the surface to erect a fence round the subsidence , volunteered to go back down into the unknown to search for his missing colleagues . |
| 25 | She preferred the additional wearisome walk , half an hour up and half an hour back down on the other side , to bothering one of these absorbed people . |
| 26 | Oh God we 're all back down on the bloody board now ! |
| 27 | Lying back down on the rumpled bed , she stretched luxuriously , then hooked her hands round the bed-head and stared up at the ceiling , a soft smile on her face . |
| 28 | They 'd finished their show and were coming back down to the damp and squalid cellar the management refused to redecorate because of its ‘ classic atmosphere ’ . |
| 29 | then wound back down by the parched red track |
| 30 | He seems to sweep aside rational analysis only to let it come back in at the ideological level , and underplays the processes of getting the ideology established in the face of organizational resistance . |