Example sentences of "their [noun] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Greene and Cloke were jeered as they passed the post and cries of ‘ cheats ’ greeted them as they rode their mounts back to the unsaddling enclosure and were hauled before the stewards . |
| 2 | Some sport Gazza crops , while others lost their hair back in the mists of time . |
| 3 | It just annoys me , the way they do n't tie their hair back in the coffee shop . |
| 4 | It was at that precise moment the killer pack picked up their trail back in the woods , having arrived hotfoot in answer to the summons of the ultrasonic whistle . |
| 5 | Though heavily laden as they were on their trek back to the crofts , they did not complain . |
| 6 | Cold swimmers demanded their money back at the new Ponteland Leisure Centre after claiming the water was too cold . |
| 7 | The letter I saw which alerted er , users and their carers about these items on the agenda , seem to be an indication for them to , to express their opinions back through the Social Services Department , now if that 's consultation , then the process has started . |
| 8 | To listen to ‘ a load of shit on shehadat ’ , as Cave called it , was part of the side-business of negotiating ; the Americans would do their best to try to steer their interlocutors back to the subjects at hand . |
| 9 | However , once these new languages and varieties had become established in the Caribbean , the same phenomenon of migration took their speakers back to the original " homeland " of the lexifier language , English . |
| 10 | Also , both the vicarage and Rectory farm can trace their origins back to the 1500's . |
| 11 | The author set the context for his story with a lengthy but fairly conventional genealogy of the kings of France , tracing their origins back to the Trojans as Frankish historians had done since Merovingian times . |
| 12 | These associations can often trace their origins back to the nineteenth century when they were , under different names , primarily concerned with giving relief in cash and kind to families in distress . |
| 13 | Wales have responded to their 5-1 opening game thrashing by Romania with two successive wins , at home to the Faroe Islands and last month in Cyprus , to put their campaign back on the rails . |
| 14 | Bull confirmed that those taking unpaid leave will get a bonus proportional to the duration of their absence ( three months salary for a year , six months for two years , nine months for three years ) , but that they will have no guarantee of getting their job back after the leave . |
| 15 | This is the reason why in recent years theorists have turned their attention back to the question of the historicity of historical understanding , to its status as interpretation , representation or narrative , and , more radically , to the problem of temporality as such . |
| 16 | The urgent blare of his car horn drew their attention back to the sheriff 's tall figure . |
| 17 | Finally , they began to make their war back to the cars . |
| 18 | Offering Mr Hurd his support , Mr Michael Heseltine ( C. Henley ) , said : ‘ It 's quite impossible to explain to the Chinese population in Hong Kong that we 're putting their relatives back across the frontier with the mainland day after day , and allowing boat people from Vietnam to remain in Hong Kong . ’ |
| 19 | Both companies are known to be pro-rail and hopeful of putting their goods back in the tracks if a more realistic service can be offered in the future . |
| 20 | Khomeini was born at the turn of the century , to a family of mullahs who like to trace their ancestry back to the prophet Muhammad . |
| 21 | But the constraints on their existence implied by operating from open waste land or shacks have created a situation where they have little security , and the owners of such enterprises are discouraged from reinvesting a high proportion of their profits back into the business . |
| 22 | We 're trying to get big , local companies to plough some of their profits back into the community through the work of the YMCA . ’ |
| 23 | Cockburn himself was one of those whose reappraisal led to East Lothian becoming a notable region for agricultural reformers , ploughing their profits back into the improvement of the earth . |
| 24 | His concern was echoed in a BBC Panorama investigation Only Fools And Horses ? on Monday in which it was claimed that off-course bookies must pour more of their profits back into the Sport of Kings — or it could die . |
| 25 | ‘ Lille ’ , wrote a local observer in 1869 , ‘ is not a capitalist town , it is first and foremost a great industrial and commercial centre ’ where men put their profits back into the business , did not play about with them , and hoped they would never have to borrow . |
| 26 | Pritchard and one corporal then nipped back across the open roadway to drop a 10lb charge between two tugs moored in the basin , and their dash back to the hut , a mere 60 yards or less from the approaching enemy , was achieved without mishap . |
| 27 | Carrie 's young brother was waiting to tie up a brace of barges to a river tug for their journey back to the Royal Albert Dock and he had taken the opportunity to visit his sister and her husband in the dining rooms . |
| 28 | After incubation and the exertions of tending their young , adults require the rest of the summer to regain condition and undergo at least a partial moult , then to fatten again for their journey back to the wintering grounds . |
| 29 | A river flowed near to Bavduin , and each night the dead came to the water on their journey back to the cold earth of their own times and lands . |
| 30 | In May 1806 , Lewis and Clark re-entered the Nez Perce homeland , on their journey back from the Pacific . |