Example sentences of "back [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his famous survey of 1849 Henry Mayhew found that the memory of the sawyers reached back through better days up to 1826 before the saw mills proliferated , to the even more lucrative times of their fathers , when sawyers could earn £1 a day . |
| 2 | And feeding back through that inversion is an equally scandalous interrogation of the dominant order being mimicked ; civil society is shown to be rooted in a like corruption . |
| 3 | But my lad heard something and he went back and back through that crevice until he could n't get any further . |
| 4 | And he , you know , he 's not gon na know if Andrew goes through there and suddenly disappears and do n't come back through that door for |
| 5 | ‘ Would you like me to see if there 's a doctor on the train ? ’ the conductor asked as he walked back through First Class with her . |
| 6 | It is a church whose authority lies in its age and its preservation of a form of worship which can be traced back through two millennia . |
| 7 | TRAVEL BACK THROUGH 1900 YEARS OF HISTORY |
| 8 | I join the queue that stretches back through three carriages , in pursuit of a warm can of Travellers ' Fare lager — the only substance known to man that leaves the body in exactly the same state as it entered . |
| 9 | These stages , linked to the known planets , can be traced back through medieval literature to the ancients . |
| 10 | Such models and sub-cultures tend to be conservative because they are part of a process of long-term cultural transmission , going back through previous cohorts and even generations . |
| 11 | It barely exists , and gives up completely after Dubh Lochan , leaving the hoodwinked walker to stumble back through huge peat hags , and over miles of outrageously rough ground . |
| 12 | ‘ If I were your woman , God forbid that I should ever be so cursed , I 'd cut all my hair off ! ’ she hissed back through gritted teeth , devastatingly aware of the effect his nearness was having on her traitorous body . |
| 13 | The Lark 's Head can be made into a Pedigree Cow Hitch by bringing end B back through both loops , to the other side ( Fig 8 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ It was probably the most painful experience I have ever had , going back through this life , this long life , which has not been the tranquil , easy existence people assume it to be . ’ |
| 15 | The typical problems that occur are that a file created on your system using downloadable fonts works perfectly but , when you send it to another system , such as a bureau 's typesetter , what you had in , say , Bodoni Bold comes back as New Century Schoolbook Italic . |
| 16 | This may help to explain why Dearlove 's conclusions were premature , but the issues he identifies come back as key concerns in the 1980s and 1990s . |
| 17 | Critics like the duchess believe the Government 's allocation of up to £22 million for care agencies will be heavily trimmed back as local authorities are given the final say on how the money is spent . |
| 18 | Former editor Martha Hutson is back as Associate Publisher on the East coast , and Senior Editors are William H. Gerdts and William Innes Homer , advised by an editorial board of Americanist scholars . |
| 19 | Presumably he must have arranged to fly back during that telephone call last night . |
| 20 | ‘ She over-extends her back during most arm movements and back kicks , ’ says writer Martica Heaner who has a degree in exercise science . |
| 21 | Upon a sale of land the purchaser is normally entitled to have produced to him and to investigate the deeds recording previous transactions in the land going back for fifteen years ( Law of Property Act 1969 : formerly the period was thirty years ) ; and though this period is sometimes reduced by agreement , the shortening of the period throws a risk on the purchaser , who is not only bound by all legal interests in the land which actually exist whether he discovers them or not , but also by all equitable interests which he would have discovered if he had insisted on an investigation for the longer period . |
| 22 | Pete finds this hilarious ; he has been dying to get his own back for various things for ages and this comes close to the perfect opportunity . |
| 23 | Mr Young said that now the trust had its core holdings , the second tranche of money would be invested more slowly with some held back for new opportunities . |
| 24 | The girl shut her eyes and gripped back for dear life . |
| 25 | Traffic tailed back for twelve miles . |
| 26 | But like most children ( and adults ? ) she has an attitude to tests which somehow stops her from checking back for possible errors . |
| 27 | My mother 's been up there and she did n't come back for two hours and she came back we kept well he 'd sold a lot of meat in the meantime . |
| 28 | He was away and would not be back for two weeks . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's been back for two days . ’ |
| 30 | She did n't come back for two days . |