Example sentences of "back [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Adam looked back through the split in the gates , he saw Curly Top , saw the evil hatred in his eyes . |
| 2 | There was no one at the pumping station in the Old Town , so the two of them headed back through the dockside streets to find out what was happening . |
| 3 | The outer side of the algal ridge is often interrupted by a system of spurs and grooves , the latter running back through the ridge as a series of surge channels , which may even become roofed over in places by the development of Porolithon from their sides . |
| 4 | We turned back through the village again and up to Claro . |
| 5 | Rutherford said that he would give him a 20-minute start , then drive back through the village and collect him . |
| 6 | Push the crate left to hit the switch , go down , collect the star and fly up , left and then down , go left , collect the star , fly straight right , then fly up , land on one of the platforms on the side of the wall , jump up and go right on the chair-lifts , go down , right through the wall , climb up the blocks , push the crate down two platforms and go back through the wall , go left , down , right and jump onto the boat , go right , up and left into the tent to complete the game . |
| 7 | Their fingers interlocked and tightened , and when he pulled her hand back through the wall , she made no effort to resist him . |
| 8 | Composer also has a MIDI facility to play back through the PC speaker . |
| 9 | Bert shuffled back through the door into the boarded off section of the garage , followed by Yanto , who was frustrated by the old man 's slowness . |
| 10 | Entitled ‘ Potential human carcinogens : methods for identification and characterisation ’ , it was promptly kicked back through the door by several well-respected cancer specialists who were asked to review it . |
| 11 | He would expect his visitor to come back through the door to the kitchen . |
| 12 | The transaction seems to embarrass him because he insists on carrying it out in the corridor out of sight of his secretary , whose fluffy blue feet have just slipped and slid back through the door of his office . |
| 13 | I threw myself back through the door , falling to the ground . |
| 14 | The staircase was filled with the sounds of bellowing , screaming and thrashing shadows as Duvall burst back through the door after Barbara . |
| 15 | The exit to the roof was on the other side of floor 5 so Ralph went back through the door into the large room . |
| 16 | She had grabbed his hand and his cane firmly in her hands and was trying to pull him back through the water . |
| 17 | We walk back through the park and disperse : tonight they 're going to a party , it 's Paul from The Soup Dragons ’ birthday . |
| 18 | Walking back through the park , and carefully holding the children 's hands as they crossed the busy road , Laura found it almost impossible to ignore her friend 's sly suggestion . |
| 19 | At the end of the utterance HARPY traces the optimal path back through the tree . |
| 20 | Charlie looked quickly back through the half-light towards Trentham who said , ‘ Bloody Huns . |
| 21 | Suddenly , the dogs who were sniffing this exciting new country stopped ; ears raised , hair rising on their necks , they backed slowly towards John and Mary , then they howled and turned and ran back through the cutting , leaving John and Mary puzzled and a bit frightened . |
| 22 | Pressing the ESCAPE key at any other time will lead you quickly back through the menu system until you reach the main menu again . |
| 23 | Holding a length of silk in its beak , it then pierces a hole in the leaf and pushes the silk through it , tying a little knot in the end to prevent the thread from slipping back through the hole and then doing the same thing on the other side so that the two leaf surfaces are secured to one another . |
| 24 | Managers may respond by devising routines which will improve the output results but these will have a dramatic effect upon the processes of education back through the school life of every child . |
| 25 | If he could root back through the maze of moment and incident , would he find premonitory signs sticking out like dire figurations of chicken entrails ? |
| 26 | I asked as we turned our backs on the Pacific and began working our way back through the maze of walls and rubble . |
| 27 | it comes back through the starter motor and so I thought oh right strip it all down see what 's up , see if it 's bent inside |
| 28 | As he 'd hobbled back through the sleet a tiny part of him had hoped her gratitude would include an embrace , or at least a few words that would let him know she felt something for him . |
| 29 | Walk back through the square and past the Church of Our Lady Under the Chain to Míšeňská Street . |
| 30 | In a journey back through the history of crime and delinquency , Pearson shows that for generations Britain has been plagued by the same problems and fears as today . |