Example sentences of "and back [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my lad heard something and he went back and back through that crevice until he could n't get any further . |
| 2 | If mothers feel obliged to step straight out of hospital and back into real life , with the minimum of care and fuss because of cutbacks , they simply wo n't fare as well as their seemingly pampered mothers and grandmothers did , which is a pity in this supposedly socially enlightened era . |
| 3 | Turn right along the river , left over waterfall to the alley into Abbey St. and back into Long St. |
| 4 | They had stopped on the high point , where they could look across their own little valley to the dark sea , and back into another valley lined with lush woods . |
| 5 | It is a long way but I am sure the Lotus will get us there and back without any trouble . ’ |
| 6 | In 1901 , am ambitious extension of the system took the trams away from the Promenade , on an almost circular four-mile route from Talbot Square to Marton and back to Central Station , only 250 yards away . |
| 7 | The fees , based on time and difficulty rather than on salary level , have been kept competitive ; the firm 's offices , first in High Holborn , then in New Cavendish Street , then in Harley Street and back to new Cavendish Street again , are presentable and functional rather than opulent or ‘ space age ’ . |
| 8 | In fact the original eighteen poems of the Hardy sequence , ( in the Collected Poems of 1919 , he damagingly extended it by three extra pieces ) tell a story of the poet 's pilgrimage to his and Emma 's early haunts , matching the stages of the journey there and back to specific stages of Aeneas 's journey , in Aeneid 6 , to the abode of the blest . |
| 9 | A few seconds later the glider is unstalled and can be brought level and back to normal flight with the normal use of the controls . |
| 10 | In the case of television sets the wheel has turned full circle , from intensive distribution to selective distribution ( for the reasons just mentioned ) and back to intensive distribution . |
| 11 | I would prefer to have a concrete base , sides and back to these tanks , but wonder how to seal the front viewing glass . , . |
| 12 | Before going on to look at re-entry and back to nursing courses in detail I would like to consider alternative routes of re-entry available to you first . |
| 13 | It would be an absolute blessing to get away from here and back to quiet sanity . |
| 14 | She is a clinical lecturer , University of Oxford and back at full time work as Consultant Dermatologist after maternity leave . |
| 15 | People ran from the blocks to the lavatories and back with pinched faces and sat in their rooms wishing they had saved a little coal . |
| 16 | The road here crosses from England into Wales and back with increasing regularity . |
| 17 | HELLOWEEN : ‘ Pink Bubbles Go Ape ’ ( EMI ) Germany 's premier rock band go to hell and back with this frightener , containing such weird titles as ‘ Heavy Metal Hamsters ’ and ‘ I 'm Don ’ Fine Crazy Man ’ ! — out now |
| 18 | Jon Solly is alive , well and back after four years in the wilderness . |
| 19 | It may seem surprising nonetheless to claim that the infinitive event is represented as a mere potentiality in uses with the modal auxiliaries in past contexts such as : ( 9 ) When he was young , he could swim across the lake and back in 10 minutes . |
| 20 | Four hamstring operations and two bouts of knee surgery later , Ian Snodin is back and back in central midfield . |
| 21 | In 1926 Lt Commander Richard Byrd flew from Spitzbergen to the North Pole and back in 16 hours . |
| 22 | This is not to say , of course , that the age of the corporate brewery — or multinational — will not return : in SAVE and CAMRA 's 1983 report , Nikolaus Boulting wisely warned that future students of interior design may find ‘ that the cycle is complete , from company identity to corporate image and back in three generations ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ On a Saturday morning , ’ Patrick said , ‘ I should be able to make the City and back in three hours . ’ |
| 24 | We do n't provide formal instruction , but novices pick up a lot by sailing out and back in light winds . |