Example sentences of "back on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back on the fall , he said : ‘ I knew he was going down 20 yards before it happened . |
| 2 | The shoes were back on the desk top . |
| 3 | Wickham dropped the file back on the desk . |
| 4 | But it would take many years before Nordhausen became a green town , many years before it could even start to ease back on the pollution it coughed on to its inhabitants and the surrounds in which they existed . |
| 5 | Frank was lying back on the pillows with his eyes closed . |
| 6 | He smiled fondly at the girl as he spoke , and Paulette , who in truth was very pretty , blew him a kiss before lying back on the pillows . |
| 7 | Now , in the light of a bedside lamp , he could see Marius Steen Lying back on the pillows asleep . |
| 8 | She lay back on the pillows . |
| 9 | Then she fell back on the pillows . |
| 10 | He dropped the diary into the drawer , closed it and fell back on the pillows . |
| 11 | He lay back on the pillows , smiling at her . |
| 12 | She rested her head back on the pillows and looked at him a bit desperately . |
| 13 | Isabel was so stunned that she nearly fell back on the pillows . |
| 14 | She gave an irritated sigh and flung herself back on the pillows , staring straight up at the ceiling . |
| 15 | She laughed and threw herself back on the pillows . |
| 16 | If Liz and Owen had n't had that accident , which brought us together to look after the twins , we might never have found each other again ! ’ she cried , feeling almost faint as she fell back on the pillows , hardly able to bear the thought of how narrowly they had averted a lifetime of unhappiness . |
| 17 | She overtook it , and sped down a road to the left , getting back on the route that ran beside the motorway . |
| 18 | Martin , a student from another part of the college , a Higher Diploma course , reports back on the progress of the Garden Project ( designing an accessible garden ) . |
| 19 | Now Matthew from the First Diploma course reports back on the progress of another project . |
| 20 | Canon Wright said : ‘ I believe that to go back on the progress that was made in the convention would be a retrograde step , for what is going to replace it ? ’ |
| 21 | THE WONDER STUFF are back on the vinyl trail with their first single for more than a year . |
| 22 | Pascoe fast-forwarded the tape , then pressed play , bringing the music back on the swell of a crescendo . |
| 23 | It was a remarkable achievement by any standards , but it proved that Waites was well and truly back on the scene and still a competitor to be feared . |
| 24 | The Exiles are bristling to get back on the scene and currently lie third in the Division Four South , tucked in behind Havant and Basingstoke . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll stick to mineral water , ’ Alyssia said , sourly noticing that Mr Charm was back on the scene when he continued his conversation with Simone as though she had n't arrived on the scene at all . |
| 26 | ‘ Adam never stood a chance , did he , once you came back on the scene ? |
| 27 | Those are the Saw Doctors interesting this about the Saw Doctors is one of them won the lottery in Ireland I do n't they have a lottery we 're go when are we going to get a national lottery that 's what I want to know when are we going to get it a national next year we 're going to get a national lottery that 's right and one of the Saw Doctors won the national lottery and he won three quarters of a million pounds er and they have n't made much money the Saw Doctors but he won three quarters of a million pounds so that have n't worked for quite some time but they are back on the scene as I speak and er they really if if they er come to York they 're certainly worth seeing . |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't say he 's back on the scene again . |
| 29 | She does n't even know yet that he 's back on the scene , let alone that he 's working with me , and as for anything else … ’ |
| 30 | I thought she had matured this past year with me but all my hard work to get her to face up to her responsibilities crumbled when Steve came back on the scene . ’ |