Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prince went back to the bible and put his hand on it . |
| 2 | The idea of the Temple went back to the time of Moses when God commanded a tabernacle ( i.e. a tent ) to be built in which to keep the Ark of the Covenant . |
| 3 | By the Canal Turn he was second , and he kept up his gallop as the field came back towards the stands , taking up the running with three fences to go . |
| 4 | Quacking and complaining , the ducks hopped back into the water and swam away . |
| 5 | The guards were changed and the prisoners settled back onto the luggage racks or the floor or the upright wooden seats to sleep . |
| 6 | More bangs from the rear of the house , the door through to the kitchen slammed back against the wall , the room filled with soldiers , and in the wrecked doorway a tall , slim officer was making a small ceremony of ushering in a man with long grey hair and a black coat . |
| 7 | After half an hour I was still waiting , so I gave him an experimental pull and the hook came back minus the barbel . |
| 8 | The two nomes watching the lane hurried back into the quarry to report . |
| 9 | The Admiral climbed back into the saddle and gathered his reins . |
| 10 | The driver sauntered back from the office , and was joined by two labourers who would load his cart . |
| 11 | The mud-slinging splashed back in the face of the accuser . |
| 12 | Her moment came at the end of the first course when , without any apparent signal , the parlourmaid came back into the room . |
| 13 | The survivors scrambled back to the sepoy lines pursued by a vengeful squadron of Sikh cavalry . |
| 14 | An optometrist can calculate the strength of glasses a person needs by judging the light reflected back from the retina . |
| 15 | Now , as the light leached back into the world , he saw the door open at the head of the steps and a figure appear . |
| 16 | There is n't a microphone in the tree , but the echo reflected back from the tree will be Doppler-shifted upwards in pitch in this way . |
| 17 | The Superintendent leant back in the chair in the diocesan office conference room , Tallboy sitting opposite . |
| 18 | The superintendent went back to the shop-floor and David looked at Rachel . |
| 19 | When Kit , informed by his scout that the enemy was present , gave the first order to fire , the soft promise of the light burst into flame ; the vanguard of the islanders fell back from the English muskets . |
| 20 | Under Aelfwald the kingship passed back into the archbishop 's own family — the descendants of Leodwald ( see Appendix , Fig. 9 ) , to whom Aethelberht , as a kinsman of Ecgberht , will have been related . |
| 21 | When the girl came back into the cabin she was shaking . |
| 22 | Clapping their wings the gulls came back from the sea , |
| 23 | The visitors came back into the game with two penalty goals by Graves and could have turned ends 9–9 had he been successful with his third penalty goal on half-time . |
| 24 | The keys came back through the post , without even a thank-you note . |
| 25 | The Sun switched back to the Tories in 1979 , and the circulation gap doubled . |
| 26 | The controller came back with the Porto weather : ‘ 1 CB at 2000 . |
| 27 | But then the judge came back into the courtroom , and everybody stopped talking . |
| 28 | Once the four moralists of the minority took over , and the question reverted back to the Holy Office ( still presided over at this date by Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani ) , there could be no doubt about the answer : consistency required a continued ban on contraception . |
| 29 | When the child shrank back against the edge of the bed and made no attempt to climb up on to the mattress , Aggie put a hand to her head before muttering , ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 30 | As the lady walked back to the castle on Bridhe 's arm , Catriona ran ahead to ready the bedroom . |