Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Instead he learned that life is not a choice between murdering your way to the throne or slopping back in a sty ; that there are swinish kings and regal hogs ; that the king may envy the pig ; and that the possibilities of the not-life will always change tormentingly to fit the particular embarrassments of the lived life .
2 Each year straw equivalent to 3.6 million tonnes of coal is wasted , usually burnt in the field or ploughed back into the ground .
3 Every culture , however imperfectly and blindly , either turned towards the light or fell back into the darkness .
4 He would linger on those delivery trips and stay for dinner or tea or come back via the Talbot , the pub across the road , although he was under age .
5 In one of them he found a collection of cheque stubs and account books that went back to the 1940s .
6 Only 15 months later , the participants in that match , which , it must be said , was not full of passion , are now presumably heavily engaged in destroying each other simply because they come from two sides of a divide that dates back to the tragedies , miseries and horrors of the second world war , back to the first world war and into the deep recesses of history before that time .
7 And at the same time , and slightly in contradiction to that , I found it increasing erm , er , perception and indication of dissatisfaction with the way in which the joint er , collaborative structures were actually working , if I may say , especially at the top level in terms of the political erm erm , so I say to you colleagues , that you are required as er , by statute to , to have in place collaborative structures , er , under a statute that goes back to the nineteen seventies , and I should also say to you that up and down the country that authorities like your own are at this stage doing what you 're doing , and that is reviewing the effectiveness of the operation of those structures , and probably coming to much the same conclusions .
8 He comes pounding down the ladder , and grabs the wheel and stampedes back into the waves .
9 Turn left into Bleak Terrace and go back onto the Fell through the wicket gate to the village boundary wall .
10 The recurrent nerve leaves the hypocerebral ganglion as a median or paired lateral oesophageal nerve and passes back to the hinder region of the fore gut , where it ( or each branch ) terminates in a ventricular ganglion .
11 One researcher has suggested that they may be able to detect the very low frequency vibrations that are created in the water by waves and reflected back from the ocean floor , an echo-location system similar in principle to that used , at the other extreme end of the frequency scale , by bats .
12 Yanto took a long swig of cider , then closed his eyes and leaned back against the tree trunk with a sign of contentment .
13 They returned to the warehouse and stood back as a boy carrying a sheet of glass under his arm came down the stairs .
14 So the bit was taken out of his mouth and put back in the proper place , and Wendy continued to calmly trot him around with the other horses ; and Huckleberry kept putting his tongue over the bit again , and again , and again .
15 I finish my tea and climb back into the Toyota .
16 ‘ Oh , I 'm well enough , ’ Mrs Clamp said , shaking her head and coming down off the stool , picking up some more frozen burgers and going back to the freezer .
17 Thirty seconds later , he had the whole U-rod assembly unbolted from the car and stepped back out the way he 'd come in .
18 Instead , not wanting to risk a scene without more evidence of his suspicions , he went back to his car and drove back to the Club , stopping briefly at a couple of pubs on the way to see if Gwen was in either .
19 For a fleeting moment , she wondered if the woman might have given her deliberately wrong directions but , shrugging the thought away , she started the car and turned back in the direction from which she had just come .
20 I take the tube and have my first puff and lean back upon the settee , my eyes closed , my legs spread slightly .
21 He removed his arm from her shoulders and leaned back against the wall , his gaze still on the fair-haired young girl who sat on the bicycle , ready to move off , the wind blowing her skirt and hair .
22 Some of the nomes scouted around the sheds and came back with a few vegetables that had been missed , but it was a pitifully small amount .
23 If there are no more loans to be entered , the user presses the RETURN key and goes back to the options list .
24 Okay press the er escape key and go back to the regression results , erm so return to the post regression menu and then display regression results , regressult results again .
25 Looking at City at Southampton on Saturday and thinking back to the Everton sides that twice won the championship , Kendall appears just the man to implant the discipline and experience needed around some otherwise exciting talent .
26 Twenty minutes later they were on their way , the three of them piling into the big black Mercedes and heading back to the railway station .
27 I then collect the grassbox and jog back to the front of the house where Pa is waiting .
28 ‘ Be our guest , ’ said Noolan and went back into the social room leaving the large figure , head wreathed in cigarette smoke , seated at the top of the big committee sized table .
29 She pushed the tray off her knees and lay back on the pillow .
30 As the stray bullets whistled across no-man's-land , Charlie fell on his knees and crawled back to the reserve trenches , to brief his section on what they might expect once they were pushed forward another hundred yards .
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