Example sentences of "back [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this sort of technology was introduced into commercial-sized refrigeration plants , they could be turned off during peak times and then switched back on during low demand periods , saving money for the companies that own them and using less energy . |
| 2 | Feeling stupid and wretched and impossibly wet , her cord trousers clinging horribly to her legs , her sweater feeling ten times heavier with the weight of water , she glared ahead of her as Leo courteously helped her back on to firm ground . |
| 3 | Get back on to Classic Gold . |
| 4 | Anyway , do n't let us get back on to that . |
| 5 | We 'll come back on to that later on , because it , it , it , if this is what happens with you , because what 's happening there is , you 're not using the adrenaline , and we will , we 're moving on to that where you do n't use up the adrenalin . |
| 6 | Would you mind if I come back on to that later ? |
| 7 | that they thought they could develop and hav hold events on , and er , he said , like we , we came up with some good ideas , put forward some ideas , really good ideas , for things to do on this land , and he said , the trouble is that all these councillors back on to these pieces of land , and he said , er , they do n't want people coming along and enjoying themselves on it , because they want to go and walk their labradors on it . |
| 8 | The point is that , unless you have such focuses for new building , you are left with only two alternatives : to force all new building back on to those urban wastelands ; or else to let new housing grow , like fat around a middle-aged belly , on the outskirts of existing villages and country towns . |
| 9 | But biological weapons are unlikely to be much used on troops in combat , mainly because of the difficulties of getting the aerosols on to them without seeing them drift back on to those who released them . |
| 10 | Because higher-rate taxpayers benefit more from tax allowances than people on lower earnings , the reform would shift the burden of taxation back on to those with highest incomes . |
| 11 | I like this very much as an easy summer skirt — three pieces knitted right across your machine , hooked back on to fewer stitches for a small yoke to avoid bulk at the waist — equally becoming to the very slender or larger lady . |
| 12 | To try to rejuvenate his fading presidency Reagan wanted to be seen on prime-time network television across America greeting each hostage in turn as they stepped safely back on to American soil . |
| 13 | Oscar Esmond Godolphin always recited a little prayer in praise of democracy when , after one of his trips to the Dominions , he stepped back on to English soil . |
| 14 | ‘ Daddy , darling , ’ Alyssia said , smiling genuinely for the first time since she had stepped foot back on to English soil and kissing him on the tip of his nose , ‘ in your own cantankerous way , you 've put your finger right on the button . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't expect you 'd be back much before seven . ’ |
| 16 | He went back inside without another word . |
| 17 | Their 1987 balance sheets took a hit because of defaults , but have bounced back nicely in 1988 . |
| 18 | Lost John 's Cave is found very easily by rounding the end of the wall on the right and walking back alongside for 180 yards to a hollow where a small stream enters a black cavity in a low cliff ; a few yards further over a small rise is another less obvious orifice . |
| 19 | Oh yeah , but we well she 's gon na change it , d' ya know when you update it you know they bring it back down with all the different words that , that 's being to the the , the , the , the dialect , not the dialect , the the vocabulary they , they 've , they 've got in America . |
| 20 | Finish by slowing back down to normal training pace again for the last 16 to 17 minutes . |
| 21 | Rouble weaker : The battered rouble inched back down to another record low on Moscow 's tiny Interbank Currency Exchange today , changing hands at 399 to the dollar . |
| 22 | If the clusters grow too big before they collapse , they will be unable to shake off enough smaller carbon fragments to get back down to 60 atoms . |
| 23 | Traders were plunged into another whirl of selling , taking the lira back down to five-month lows of around 964 to the German mark . |
| 24 | Remember the last thing you did was add it on , so if we say it 's two pounds , we 're back down to forty pounds that he 's got to buy units . |
| 25 | I scrambled back down after that and retrieved the ball-bearing I had hit the sign with the day before . |
| 26 | I am well aware of the atrocities that some Croatians perpetrated during the second world war , and of the tensions between Serb and Croat that go back long before that , which left a legacy of hatred and fear . |
| 27 | The height of my military skill was the ability to strip a Bren gun blindfold and put it back together in 30 seconds . |
| 28 | Back together after two years , Cher , 46 , had just watched Sambora , 32 , at a West End gig . |
| 29 | From this position he could not expect to be prominent going to the first bend , the clubhouse turn , and Shoemaker held him back in about eighth place , some four horses out from the rails , as the runners came past the stands . |
| 30 | MLA locksmiths will get you back in with minimum disruption . |