Example sentences of "back [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The typical emigrant , huddled together with his like in the strange new environment which received him coldly enough — the militant xenophobia of the ‘ Know-Nothings ’ was a native American response to the influx of starving Irish in the 1850s — fell back naturally on the only human setting that was familiar and could provide help , the company of his countrymen . |
| 2 | And Durbeyfield lay back comfortably on the grass . |
| 3 | On the following flights you position the final turn and approach relative to where you made the last one , i.e. if you kept too close and landed rather far into the field on the first landing , you will move back more on the next , remembering the positioning of the previous flight . |
| 4 | He wriggled back further on the bed till he was leaning up against the wall . |
| 5 | Who went to the end of the street , nevertheless , and came back briskly on the impetus of her need , her decision . |
| 6 | From then on they met separately in wine bars , reporting back intermittently on the drunken evenings they had had . |
| 7 | The weekend should have been the danger period , not a Tuesday , a nothing day of the week when nobody did anything other than look back wistfully on the pleasures behind them and look forward to the unformed pleasures ahead . |
| 8 | She opened her mouth to speak , thought better of it , then slumped back angrily on the sofa and folded her arms across her chest . |
| 9 | He is now back full-time on the circuit after breaking an arm in a car crash in 1990 , which put him out of action for 12 months . |
| 10 | So we 're meeting back here on the twenty fifth of April at two thirty . |
| 11 | She turned and walked the long clicking walk down the floor ( the shop strangely quenched of sound and movement ) , tugged back hard on the glass door and with a shake of shiny hair had passed into the random straggle of the street . |
| 12 | I lay on the ground for a few more moments , then continued on my way through the trees in the direction of Brigade Headquarters , pondering on the likely thoughts of Colonel Peter Young and his three Officers back there on the hill . |
| 13 | This area of toughened vegetation and rocks lines the shores of the Mediterranean , off and on , from Israel to Gibraltar and back again on the other side . |
| 14 | Eleanor Thorne lay back again on the high pillows , and her nut-brown face was petulant . |
| 15 | He came downstairs and found Alexander Atkins and the second man back again on the doorstep . |
| 16 | We can go down and come back specifically on the Monday . |