Example sentences of "back [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I keep as many of your letters as I can store to look back on at the turn of the century , which we 're both going to see ! |
| 2 | A rapid winch launch will tend to pitch the glider back on to the tail , making a larger forward movement necessary to get the tail off the ground and so ensure a margin of speed when the aircraft takes off . |
| 3 | Slowly ‘ crunch ’ your head and knees together and then lower your head back on to the floor . |
| 4 | He went straight back on to the mat to work with his judo partner of a decade and more , Brown . |
| 5 | In another case , a pimp repeatedly followed a girl to her house in an attempt to force her back on to the streets . |
| 6 | When the White House and Congress do reach a 1990 budget agreement ( no one is willing to predict when ) the spending cuts will be restored and the carriages lifted back on to the rails . |
| 7 | The planning principles adopted included keeping the common circulation areas and services central — all-internal kitchens and bathrooms back on to the spinal corridor which occupies the central strip of the former nave space ( Fig 45 ) . |
| 8 | Mr Stephen Joseph , of the pressure group Transport 2000 , said the plans would force people back on to the roads . |
| 9 | Perhaps the train in Aunt Louise 's mind had jumped back on to the rail for a while because it was then , in quite a conversational voice , that she began to speak of her daughter . |
| 10 | He wrapped this and the fat-soaked bread in sheets of clean newspaper taken from the bathroom , then climbed back on to the stool to see what else he could find . |
| 11 | There seemed nothing at all , no way of climbing back on to the free wheel of conversation they had somehow set going the other night . |
| 12 | A5 southbound traffic will travel on the east side of the roundabout and back on to the A5 . |
| 13 | Hardline resistance to Mr Gaidar and his shock therapy programme , which conservatives say is sending millions into beggary , will not have ended with the vote in the Grand Kremlin Palace and is likely to move back on to the streets with more rabble-rousing in coming months . |
| 14 | And with that she reversed the van , turned it round and drove back on to the road . |
| 15 | And true enough , after an afternoon weaving a poem back on to the frayed ends of a loom of broken rhymes , I had leapt up and punched the air with determination . |
| 16 | What the admiring spectators did n't see was Zarei sitting in the first aid room and insisting those helping him look away as he took off his socks , ‘ because I do n't want to frighten you ’ , and later on slipping a tape of Irish Folk music in to his Walkman as he went back on to the track and muttering quietly to himself , ‘ that will help me stop thinking of the pain ’ . |
| 17 | Several more aircraft were set ablaze , and as they drove back on to the road without a shot having been fired against them , Stirling and Mayne were cock-a-hoop . |
| 18 | After three months ' travelling in Australia , hitch-hiking has become an addiction ; the stimulation of a new acquaintance , a frank exchange of views , and then back on to the roadside — a self-contained experience without any repercussions . |
| 19 | As it happened , the entire episode was resolved after The Smiths decided to repoen communications with the label and a somewhat confused Easterhouse were invited back on to the Scottish tour . |
| 20 | The roof drainage should be able to take water away quickly and cleanly without obstruction , and therefore eaves tiles should discharge neatly into gutters without water being blown back on to the wall or woodwork . |
| 21 | Since nobody on the summit of the Ben required a ticking off , except perhaps by the fashion police , it was back on to the tourist path for the descent . |
| 22 | Donald would choke and spit and deposit the whole mouthful back on to the plate . |
| 23 | My legs folded , both knees hit the ground , and I scrambled , in a rage , back on to the wheelbarrow . |
| 24 | Success came overnight in neither case ; but a slow and steady improvement did take place , hauled back on to the right track at intervals by taking out the original contract and referring yet again to the agreed terms . |
| 25 | I ran into the road , did a Highland fling and ran back on to the pavement . |
| 26 | He stepped back on to the deck . |
| 27 | Without glancing at the two men , he drove out of the warehouse , through the metal gates and back on to the street . |
| 28 | He turned abruptly away and Willie followed him up the lane and back on to the main street . |
| 29 | YOU FAT BASTAD ! ’ as a stage diver is thrown back on to the stage and Carl , who has removed his glasses in a rare moment of vanity , gets out of the way by blundering blindly into the snare drum . |
| 30 | By this time , the whirligig of time had actually brought Hill back into fashion , and I hope that his shade had a cackle at the sight of the Thames executives attempting to clamber back on to the bandwagon . |