Example sentences of "the [noun sg] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pitched the tent back from the sea , close to a river . |
| 2 | After spending considerable effort getting the boiler back into working order it was important to give it a steam test , obtain an insurance certificate and get it back on the chassis so that it could be used to haul trains . |
| 3 | They were ready to move on the appointed day and , at the end of the summer , they would begin the trek back to the village on their own , as soon as they smelt the smoke of the bonfires in which the thatch and the bedding from the shielings were destroyed , for reasons which today we might classify as ‘ environmental health ’ , but which , to the young folk of the shieling , was almost a ritual . |
| 4 | We spent our final night of the trek back in Torvizcon before returning to Orgiva . |
| 5 | Franz Thun-Hohenstein had to promise his grand-father Franz Anton and his father Christoph , who died in 1990 , that if Bohemia were ever to become free again , he would take the picture of the Annunciation back to the church of the Holy Cross in Decin . |
| 6 | Solution then flows down the capillary and drains round the sides of the bulb back into D , but as no back pressure from the excess solution exists , the volume in D plays no part in determining the flow time t . |
| 7 | He does n't understand at all , children say things to him at school he 's very mixed up i 'm going to have to seek a lot of help for all the children.He asked me : ’ Am I going to get the bike back for Mark and Thomas to ride on the child 's seat ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Then mummy tells me I ca n't go out and I 'll wheel the bike back into the garage . ’ |
| 9 | I soon had the bike back in working order and if the distances were n't too great , I would ride while the others rode in the van . |
| 10 | The bottom turn should be sharp enough to bring you back up to the top of the wave whereupon you perform what is known as a ‘ cut-back ’ in which you use all your weight on the windward rail to violently turn the board back down the slope of the wave . |
| 11 | For best effect , set the board back from the face of the chimney plaster by about 12 to 25mm , so there 's no problem with cracking at the joint where plaster and hardboard or timber meet . |
| 12 | you want it just like that , we 'll have to put it up if you 're gon na carry the milk back for me right let's clip you in who do I fasten in ? , |
| 13 | Incongruously , Giselle was a flabby girl ( parents should think ! ) who could n't screw the top of the coffee jar on straight , could n't put the milk back in the fridge , could n't shut the door . |
| 14 | Carefully , crouching to hold the jar low against the ground lest the wind whip any of the powder back towards him , he sprinkled the contents of the jar across the end of the dirt road just before the gate . |
| 15 | Put the crayon back in , do you want to watch Chip and Dale ? |
| 16 | T hat day they had tried , without success , electric shock treatment to try to get the heart back into normal rhythm . |
| 17 | If a grant is made and there is money or other assets in the estate of the person who has died , this will have to be used to pay the money back to the Social Fund . |
| 18 | I 'll pay the money back to her . ’ |
| 19 | But I 'll tell you this , ’ she glared at him , her heart pounding , ‘ I 'd rather work around the clock to get the money back to my father in time than spend one minute longer than I have to with a selfish , bad-tempered misery who was obviously born an expert at everything . ’ |
| 20 | Around 20 per cent of loans to Third World countries have been spent on arms : the weapons go to poor countries , the money back to rich ones3 . |
| 21 | It would be wrong to give the money back to Mr Hellyer and terrible to tell Dad . |
| 22 | All the boy 's instincts told him to throw the money back at the policeman , their natural enemy , but his little brothers ' faces changed his mind . |
| 23 | paid but if you had a complete attendance they gave you the money back for your self which was quite er a good thing in these days when a a tanner was a tanner . |
| 24 | It has usually cost them less than 0.5% to raise capital by issuing dollar-denominated warrants ( ie , Eurobonds with warrants that give the buyer the right to buy the shares at fixed prices in four or five years ' time ) in London and then using swaps to get the money back into yen . |
| 25 | ‘ It just would n't be right , ’ she replied with a shrug and slipped the money back into his pocket . |
| 26 | If the government then uses this money to repay the national debt by buying back more bonds and Treasury bills than it issues , this will release the money back into the economy again . |
| 27 | The County Council reallocates resources from things that it sells into things like new build , new schools ; if we sell a piece of a playing field or whatever , then we will put , plough the money back into capital resources within the education service somewhere else . |
| 28 | If it 's under a thousand pounds , you ca n't get the money back through funding , and the policy is void . |
| 29 | What do you do — put your ideas to one side and spend the next few months feeling deflated ; or do you take out a Midland Personal Loan now and enjoy the benefits of your purchase , paying the money back in easy stages ? |
| 30 | So that you 're , in other words you either , you 're , by having the money back in your hand you are then restored to the position you were in before you bought the goods in the first place . |