Example sentences of "[noun pl] back " in BNC.

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1 That done , he can busy himself getting the Uruguay round 's warring parties back to the negotiating table .
2 Sir Patrick must hope this will be enough to bring the parties back to the table , to build on the broad principles agreed last time .
3 In June 1946 , a month after a popular referendum had voted down the Constituent Assembly 's proposed constitution and sent the parties back to the drawing board , de Gaulle re-entered the political fray .
4 Both Governments regard the current upsurge in loyalist murders as an urgent incentive to get the political parties back around the negotiating table .
5 Sir Patrick Mayhew and Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring stressed that they would continue trying to woo the parties back to the table — but neither gave any specific basis for optimism .
6 The only people who 'll get the Conservative parties back in is the snobby people who work at Oxford and that .
7 They 've cut it down and agreed I pay the arrears back at a pound a week .
8 Labour says that although it would hand the opted-out schools back to the authorities that used to control them , it would protect them against discrimination .
9 ( 3 ) The Principal Education Officer either accepts the lists proposed or refers particular schools back for exclusion or substitution , on the basis of expert knowledge about factors of which the project team could not have been aware .
10 My hon. Friend is right that the Labour party would be prepared to overrule parental ballots and to take grant-maintained schools back into the throes of LEA control , which is exactly what parents have voted to escape .
11 Cadfael stepped back to measure again the angle at which the body lay , and the few paces back along the path where the assailant must have been hidden .
12 Jehan took several paces back and he screwed up his eyes .
13 But now they 've got got the additional worry of discovering that the applications they made to various universities and polytechnics back in October may never have been sent .
14 When once the German impetus had exhausted itself , ground down by the lethal barrages from the Bois Bourrus guns , the inevitable French riposte would — within 24 hours — push the survivors back again .
15 I never dared to ask , but I understand now what it is that drives addicts back to the needle time and time again whatever the cost to their health and sanity ; I understand now what the mystics lay claim to when they speak of the peace that passeth all understanding .
16 To help addicts back to health , many of the ‘ anonymous ’ organisations use a 12-step plan pioneered by Alcoholics Anonymous .
17 The latter was aptly named , so tart that the first gulp curled your lips back .
18 Among certain groups living in southern Africa the labia can be as long as seven inches and the owners of such equipment have to push the lips back into the vaginal opening in order to get on with their daily tasks .
19 She had drawn her lips back over her teeth while she cried , rocking herself backwards and forwards in the seat .
20 He grinned , a loose and vulpine grin , drawing his lips back over his teeth , which were yellow and crooked .
21 The fire now reached his face , blackening his mouth , swelling the tongue , pushing the lips back to the gums .
22 His head came down and his mouth fastened on hers , cutting off the supply of air to her lungs , forcing her lips back against her teeth .
23 It was only then that he became aware of the stench of fetid breath as the figure drew its lips back over yellowing teeth to snarl at him again ; only then that he saw raging , bloodshot eyes glaring out at him from the hair covered face .
24 Airships back in business
25 When the weights reach the ground , remove them , roll up the work around the comb ( do not remove the wire ) and put the weights back on to the comb , from the back of the comb .
26 Large groups of whales occasionally swim ashore and lie stranded on the beach , unable to move their huge bulks back into the sea .
27 She had little idea as to the extent of his amputation and of his various trips back and forth from theatre .
28 On my regular trips back home , I am always a witness to the unspeakable hardships which the local population endures as a result of living alongside one of Europe 's most important arteries for the transport of people and goods in the North-South direction .
29 So we start to take an interest , and among other things we 're passed the names of a couple of Iranians who make frequent trips back home by train .
30 Using a compact model where waste is generated , also saves continuous trips back and forth from the kitchen to outside dustbins .
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