Example sentences of "back on [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean-Paul lay back on the silken divans and closed his eyes . |
| 2 | That famous stain was back on the front steps . |
| 3 | The ageing NI team is looking back on the key events of the last decade of the millennium . |
| 4 | We skirted the artificial Llys y-fran reservoir and chose a route back on the tiny lanes which connect the farms . |
| 5 | The Six agreed to hold an intergovernmental committee , to be headed by the tireless Paul-Henri Spaak , which would consider , flesh out and report back on the various proposals . |
| 6 | I 'm also thrilled by the terrific response to my December letter , when I asked you to pinpoint the key issues that you believe should be tackled by the Government in order to put Britain back on the right tracks for 1992 : not surprisingly , childcare comes high on your list , as it does in the questionnaire . |
| 7 | But it 's nice to get back on the right tracks and now we have to keep it up against Stockport on Tuesday . |
| 8 | Right , and the background to that of course is , for those of you who may not know , Bullett was I suppose a more junior person in the State Department , when he went to Europe with Woodrow Wilson in nineteen eighteen , and nineteen whenever it was for a peace conference , and Bullett was the only one of the American delegation who resigned and confronted Wilson and said , look , you 've gone back on the fourteen points , you 're not doing what you said you would do . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 've got my old job back on the same terms and I 'm delighted . |
| 11 | She released him and he fell back on the crumpled bedclothes to stare up at her at first blankly . |
| 12 | ‘ Terry and I tried to cut back on the silly stories by not doing anything at all , but then they attacked the fact that we were n't doing anything , ’ she said . |
| 13 | They can look back on the last years they spent together as some of the best in their whole lives . |
| 14 | In one of his rare public reflective moments , he looked back on the three women in his early life , Mud , Lorraine and June , with gratitude because they gave him a good start , independence and the belief that he could always take care of himself , come what may . |
| 15 | Certainly there are differences , especially in the better development of marine sediments in the American Pennsylvanian , but these in a way have obscured the resemblances ; for work in America has concentrated on the marine fossils , whereas in Europe we have usually been forced to fall back on the non-marine faunas and floras . |
| 16 | The ‘ billow ’ or cone shape which develops in the sail under air flow couples with sweep back on the leading edges to offer a natural washout . |
| 17 | Looking back on the twenty-five years of fostering children , is there any one memory that stands out for you ? |
| 18 | The rest of the 50 minutes should be used to look back on the previous lectures and notes on the same topic . |
| 19 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 20 | She eased back on the twin-power throttles and pushed the mixture and prop levers fully forward . |
| 21 | But for no more than half-a-dozen months — and then they are back on the high seas again , pursuing their trade . |