Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [v-ing] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ageing NI team is looking back on the key events of the last decade of the millennium . |
| 2 | Old Coffin is going back to the sherry table . |
| 3 | This box is going back into the cupboard with the things that you want to keep . |
| 4 | Typically Market Maker the Harvard Securities newsletter , at a time when unemployment figures had reached the 3 1\2 million level , presented this rosy view of the City : " The prospect of stronger cashflow has meant the reintroduction of brandy and cigars after lunch ; Beluga caviar is creeping back onto the menu ; pension fund managers … are starting to hail taxis again , and the other afternoon in Throgmorton Street I actually heard a Blue Button whistling " |
| 5 | Having got rid of its international stores chain with the spin-off of InterTan Inc , Tandy Corp is heading back into the international market again and says it expects to open a second SuperCenter store in Stockholm , Sweden in the third quarter ; the company already operates a third SuperCenter in Copenhagen . |
| 6 | Suddenly , after a century of realism and what Rice calls ‘ little Protestant novels ’ , the tide is turning back towards the fantastical , towards ‘ magic , the extreme and the eccentric ’ . |
| 7 | It 's part of more than two million pounds seized from international drug traffickers that the Home Office is pouring back into the campaign against drugs . |
| 8 | A renowned rock guitarist is going back on the road with a new band , ten years after leaving the group that made him famous . |