Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] back [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or right back to the day she married Steve , or took the boat to England ? |
| 2 | He got out of the car and went up and down on his haunches a few times to ease some of the stiffness from his legs , then started to walk the mile or so back to the hotel gates . |
| 3 | Hewlett-Packard Co shares plunged a week or so back after a warning that its fiscal third quarter earnings to July 31 would be flat , and the news that it posted a net of $191m or 76 cents a share , compared with $192m or 76 cents a share last year , suggests that times have become exceedingly hard in the Unix market this summer , and that Sun Microsystems ' weak fiscal fourth quarter ( UX No 397 ) may not have been solely down to product line transitions . |
| 4 | For myself I would much rather be hunting — or even back in the army again . " |
| 5 | But Martin and Mihal went slowly down the mountain , and slowly back to the forest . |
| 6 | From the Furka summit the road is by way of Hospental and Andermatt and so back to the Gotthard road and to Wassen . |
| 7 | But if we go back to square one ( and so back to the roots , back to the foundations , back to the beginning ) , we will find a faith which is solid and secure . |
| 8 | And gives movement to the arms of the scissors and so back through the sieves to the chariot and the moulds . |
| 9 | Cameron talked with Minerva , who was being magnanimously tolerant of her husband 's much-publicised affair with Nina Kenyon , and with Anne , who was well into the tertiary stage of her fourth marriage ( to Didier Bishopric , a society restaurateur ) and just back from the Betty Ford clinic after a spell of amphetamine dependency . |
| 10 | This line of islands swings round to the north , and finally back to the west through South Georgia , describing a great loop , and then heads off for the extreme south of South America . |
| 11 | I had to move further and further back down the line to the boats . ’ |
| 12 | If Rome pulled further and further back from a willingness to tolerate new theologies , it was due to a not-unfounded belief that by 1970 ‘ new theology ’ meant a very different thing from what it had meant before 1960 . |
| 13 | TROUBLE-shooter Sir John Harvey Jones is back on TV tonight ( BBC2 9.45pm ) and also back in the soup . |
| 14 | I ca n't find anyone who actually likes this offset idea , and you really do n't want to spend your playing career justifying why your instrument looks so wacky ; left to hang around the user 's neck , it does actually rest neck-up , as promised , although I would think that this has a fair bit to do with the strap button being under the top horn and slightly back towards the body . |
| 15 | Robin Knox-Johnson has recently been honoured at the Silk Cut Awards for his seamanship in navigating his yacht Suhali one way across the Atlantic with nothing more than an astrolabe , a cross-staff and a lot of skill , and then back without a mast , engine , radio or compass after a battering in a series of storms . |
| 16 | Allen looked at the ground on which they were standing and then back along the path . |
| 17 | He ran through the hall , the mockery of Havvie Blaine 's party following him as he dashed out of the main doorway — no sign of her there — and then back down the alley at the side — and still no Sally-Anne . |
| 18 | He let in the estate agent and took him over the house , into the drawing room and the dining room , upstairs to the Pincushion Room , the Centaur Room , the Room of Astonishment , the Deathbed Room , the Room Without a Name , and then back down the back stairs to that jumble of kitchens and scullery and washhouse and coal-store , most of it a nineteenth century addition . |
| 19 | I looked over the balcony , first at the stage and then back at the dance floor and beyond . |
| 20 | And then back for the evening service . |
| 21 | He glanced slyly at her and then back to the filing cabinet three feet away from where she was standing . |
| 22 | It 's rather like a trip on the Circle Line ; you can get on at any point really , and you 'll get to the fridge , or the move , or the school fees sooner or later and then back to the beginning again . |
| 23 | Glancing up at her uneasily and then back to the document in front of him he read that Nora Elizabeth Fanshawe , by profession a teacher , had been born in London in 1945 , had black hair , brown eyes and was five feet nine inches tall with no distinguishing marks . |
| 24 | And in fact that showed no relief to the A sixty one at all in that it was quicker for traffic to actually pass er through on the A sixty one going to the to the traffic model and the all the assumptions built into it , er than it was to use a southern bypass er out to the inner northern route and then back to the A sixty one south of Killinghall . |
| 25 | Those that did , turned onto the Zeros who were by now en route to other targets and then back to the battle fleet . |
| 26 | Rex glanced down at the billfold and then back to the screen . |
| 27 | They , they needed a , a sort of a , a set of more radical policies to , to get full mobilization and it 's out of that that the outline agrarian law comes , and then they realize the mistakes of that and there 's a , there 's a pull back to the right so it 's , it 's that kind of move to the left and then back to the right . |
| 28 | However , I shall study the issue that the hon. Gentleman has raised about the length of time it takes for the grant to get to the applicant and then back to the contractor . |
| 29 | And it just goes on keeps going on another night another nightmare and then back to the interview room again and the tape machine again and more questions about Stromefirry-nofirry and Jersey and flights and that 's when they tell me about the other one that 's when they say oh by the way your best friend Andy is dead blown up in the hotel when it burned down ; probably beaten to death first head stoved in but of course you probably know all that because you did that too , did n't you ? |
| 30 | For answer , he fired the engine and drove her quickly and silently back to the cottage . |