Example sentences of "the [noun pl] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have got to do a great deal more about restrictions on motor vehicles and give the cities back to the people . |
| 2 | The black van was parked under a palm tree waiting to take the prisoners back to the Murate . |
| 3 | It is simply something that must be done ; and , in the same way , I had to get rid of some woman , tip the scales back in the other direction . |
| 4 | By analysing element of the calls back at the laboratory , the biologists were able to show that the prairie dogs distinguished between them reasonably well , effectively creating a distinctive call for each person . |
| 5 | Melanie nervously clattered the animals back into the box . |
| 6 | She turned and walked briskly away from the desk , out of the main entrance and down the steps back to the car . |
| 7 | The two men looked at each other quizzically , then Duncan handed the pictures back to the policeman and stood up . |
| 8 | Among certain groups living in southern Africa the labia can be as long as seven inches and the owners of such equipment have to push the lips back into the vaginal opening in order to get on with their daily tasks . |
| 9 | The fire now reached his face , blackening his mouth , swelling the tongue , pushing the lips back to the gums . |
| 10 | The geologists took the nodules back to the laboratory and soaked them for months in acetic acid . |
| 11 | The Mons road offered the shortest route to Brussels , and if Brussels fell the Emperor would have succeeded in driving the British back to the North Sea and the Prussians back across the Rhine . |
| 12 | John Lennon , the leader of Her Majesty 's Loyal Opposition , who was briefly a member of an unsuccessful group called The Quarrymen back in the 1960s , was apparently asked if he wanted to reform to appear on the bill . |
| 13 | He put the books back in the drawer and stood waiting for Mrs Hatton to recover . |
| 14 | Not bothering to put the designs back into the black plastic cylinder , Paul stuffed them under his arm . |
| 15 | Sir Patrick must hope this will be enough to bring the parties back to the table , to build on the broad principles agreed last time . |
| 16 | In June 1946 , a month after a popular referendum had voted down the Constituent Assembly 's proposed constitution and sent the parties back to the drawing board , de Gaulle re-entered the political fray . |
| 17 | Sir Patrick Mayhew and Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring stressed that they would continue trying to woo the parties back to the table — but neither gave any specific basis for optimism . |
| 18 | If this right was exercised , then the Corporation must lease the lines back to the Company and grant them full through running rights . |
| 19 | We 're preventing caravans entering because we want to er prevent and incursion by the gypsies back into the park again , having spent several weeks trying to get them out , and another week or two er clearing the place up after them . |
| 20 | Right from the kick-off Hove took the game to Haslemere and only excellent defence held the visitors back from the line . |
| 21 | while you post the keys back through the letter box . |
| 22 | Wait until I let you through into the last cellar , and then I must take the keys back to the steward . |
| 23 | Benin replaced the receiver and locked the telephone away , then , after securing the drawer , put the keys back in the wall safe , closed it and spun the dial . |
| 24 | They do not promise change in the sense of progress ; they promise change in the same way that the apparatchiks of yesteryear want the Communists back in the Kremlin . |
| 25 | It accounts for the constant visits of the apostle to the Gentiles back to the Jerusalem church ( Acts 18:21 , 20:16 , 25:1 etc. ) , and his organisation of a great collection for their benefit , little though he could have approved of their theology ( Rom. 15:26 , I Cor. 16:1 , 2 Cor. 8:1ff ) . |
| 26 | No sooner had we done so when a staff officer drove up in a car , accused us of looting and ordered us to put the tins back in the cases . |
| 27 | We need to ‘ internalize the externalities ’ — to bring all the costs back into the box so that the consumer pays the full price . |
| 28 | Marie took the stockings back into the living-room . |
| 29 | The Burgundians then intervened , pushing the Visigoths back across the river . |
| 30 | Then skim off the fat , pour the juices back into the roasting tin and bubble them up . |