Example sentences of "back [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a digitally-recorded album , so you 're just playing into a microphone and what you 're getting back through the headphones tends to be a little dry and sad . |
| 2 | Andy gives a small smile , takes the empty glass from her and heads back through the crowds to the kitchen . |
| 3 | He threw her a final black look and proceeded to storm past her , then paused at the edge of the path that led back through the gardens . |
| 4 | Reluctantly , the great golden beast left his excavation and pushed back through the reeds — pausing only to shake the dirt from his coat . |
| 5 | They shared a bottle of Barolo , then made their way back through the Lanes to the Conference Hall and stood on the sea-front opposite the entrance , watching the arrival of the Great and the Good . |
| 6 | The supply chain project seeks to achieve this by focusing on future customer needs and driving them back through the activities of the business to make Guinness Brewing GB operate as effectively as possible for the company and its customers . |
| 7 | Turn back through the pages of ancient history books on Venice and as far back as the year 1740 you will find tell of a friendly hostelry providing a refuge to weary travellers on this hotel 's site . |
| 8 | She turned back through the pages . |
| 9 | She must have sat alone there for a good quarter of an hour , singing to herself , before Henry and Lettice came crashing back through the woods , squealing that they had seen Humphrey and Janet and must take to the skiff at once . |
| 10 | And gives movement to the arms of the scissors and so back through the sieves to the chariot and the moulds . |
| 11 | Hari was angry as she walked back through the streets towards her home , Emily Grenfell was nothing but a snob , she thought everyone beneath her . |
| 12 | And as I walk back through the streets the other thing fuelling this self-criticism is that I turned up there with the gun . |
| 13 | KOD belong to and older and , dare I say , bolder tradition of British independent rock stretching back through The Bunnymen , The Banshees , The Cocteau Twins and The Smiths . |
| 14 | Interviews will ascertain , for both groups of firms , their clients ( B ) and will then trace back through the clients the former suppliers ( C ) . |
| 15 | I locked the Transit — you can take peace , harmony and sisterly love just so far — and threaded my way back through the tents to the fire Melanie had lit near the clapped-out bus without wheels . |
| 16 | Walking through the ancient forest of Wychwood , EV Thompson steps back through the mists of time . |
| 17 | Just 100 yards from the seafront and you step back through the centuries , giving you a real feel of medieval life . |
| 18 | Now you can visit the Jorvik Viking Centre , step aboard a time car and be whisked back through the centuries on a journey to real-life Viking Britain . |
| 19 | He moved away and I heard a murmur of protest as he trod on feet and pushed ribs to move back through the sightseers . |
| 20 | Then the train went into reverse , motors growling , occupants groaning , and trundled slowly back through the squalls of rain , passing Maryhill and looping down through Anniesland and over Great Western Road . |
| 21 | Peter leafed back through the photographs . |
| 22 | I 'd got a troublesome cough developed , and now looking back through the years , er it would have been a sort of hay-feverish condition that I I have been a bit bothered with . |
| 23 | An old track lead back through the woodlands to the forest road and your starting point at the car park . |
| 24 | The three horses on the highway had been caught and tethered by the time Michael came back through the trees , leading the roan . |
| 25 | Then the big grey monster ran back through the trees , jumped at me and knocked me down . |
| 26 | There was a yell , and then Burun came trotting back through the trees . |
| 27 | This can be checked by looking back through the arguments . |
| 28 | He stood back as the visitors moved among the men , speaking to them where possible , usually meeting with only perfunctory grunts in answer to their questions . |
| 29 | She glanced briefly back as the doors closed behind her , and was a little surprised to see the brown-eyed doctor still gazing after her . |
| 30 | The members are accountable and let me go back about the committees . |