Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When they return each group enthusiastically reports their research findings back to the class . |
| 32 | As we pulled up at the lights , he leaped out , kicked the wheel cap back into place , grinned and said , ‘ Thanks , it happens about every two years or so , ’ got back in his car , then signalled equally wildly for me to wind down my window . |
| 33 | However , Excess loses the plot when it attempts to trace club culture back to its black and gay roots in half-a-dozen rhyming couplets or explain the appeal of Ibiza as club nirvana through two camp characters who , one assumes , symbolise ‘ hedonism ’ . |
| 34 | convert carbon dioxide not , not , not carbon dioxide back to oxygen ca n't they ? |
| 35 | She rang the bell , and there he was , suffused in the warm golden light of the hall , his sleeves rolled up , pushing that silver forelock back from his eyes . |
| 36 | Regional trade association for the carpet industry date back to the 1930s , but the first national one did n't make an appearance until 1949 . |
| 37 | More cavalry poured in , from the fields and woods , orchards and farmyards and side-roads , to flood the village centre and drive the surviving enemy skirmishers back down the slope to the river , where most succeeded in wading across to half-frozen safety . |
| 38 | Banking , despite his better judgment , on Merymose 's promise , and unable to shelve the curiosity which had been awakened , Huy pushed relaxation aside with his stool and made his way from the eating house back through the harbour quarter towards the City of Dreams . |
| 39 | It had looked as if Robert Palmer was getting Digital Equipment Corp back onto an even keel , but now comes cause for great concern . |
| 40 | It had looked as if Robert Palmer was getting Digital Equipment Corp back onto an even keel , but now comes cause for great concern : too many companies decide that if the product is having a tough time in the market , the answer is to change the packaging , and DEC is tarting up its famous lower-case ‘ digital ’ logo , which has stood the company in excellent stead since 1957 ; the updated logo features ‘ a more contemporary typeface and slight modifications to the spacing of the design 's blocks ’ , and the white letters now appear on a burgundy background instead of the traditional blue — and we hope the company gets some very tough questioning at the annual meeting over the cost . |
| 41 | But clearly Hateley , who made his England debut back in 1984 and earned a fortune playing abroad , does not feel he was properly treated by Taylor . |
| 42 | Once you 're satisfied that your spur socket wo n't result in the circuit serving too large a floor area , and you 've identified the socket as one from which you can run a spur , all you have to do is install your new socket where it 's needed , run the spur cable back to the socket that will feed it , and connect it in to the socket terminals . |
| 43 | Next to his engine room colleagues Hillier is an old campaigner , having made his Arsenal debut back in September 1990 and chalked up 47 League appearances since then . |
| 44 | The dark of the tunnel hammered the engine noise back at us , water drumming on the roof above my head . |
| 45 | Yeadon had eventually found the King Pot inlet back in 1986 . |
| 46 | It was done in fact by a brilliant military er tactic er and indeed the Americans succeeded in throwing the North Koreans back over the Yalob the river Yalob So up to that point limited force had been used to achieve a political objective , the objective was to s s to erm contain communism wherever communism looked like spilling over into other countries , non-communist countries . |
| 47 | Tt with the aid of the good general the er United Nations army and the South Koreans pushed the North Koreans back into North Korea and er MacArthur 's view was well while we 're winning why do n't we keep going , you know , perhaps we could take over China as well |
| 48 | Thakin Nu made yet another attempt to bring the White Flag Communists back into the AFPFL . |
| 49 | ‘ Agony , ’ he grated , depositing a dripping ice cube back into a cold drink and handing it to her . |
| 50 | Remedial step : Mick Newell got Blackburn Rovers back to winning ways with two goals against Chelsea yesterday |
| 51 | Gotham City 's caped crusader hit the Commodore scene back in Issue 55 , receiving a hefty 96% — perhaps a little too high . |
| 52 | There was none of that back-of-the-neck prickle of fear and guilt associated with encountering the zone patrols back at Taler 's Bump . |
| 53 | For instance , when an existing part is modified to produce a new part only the modification is stored along with a reference pointer back to the original part . |
| 54 | A first-half penalty by Jerome Gnako was enough to take the home team back to the top of the league . |
| 55 | Tries by Allan Bateman and Colin Laity brought the home team back into the hunt and set up a stirring finale to the heavyweight contest . |
| 56 | Lawrence is desperate to get injured players like skipper Alan Kernaghan back into action and threatens to swing the axe for Sunday 's FA Cup clash with Chelsea . |
| 57 | Tony Donaldson had rearranged his visits and his work schedule back at the Social Services department so that he would have most of the day free to serve as Mrs Balanchine 's interpreter . |
| 58 | I remember Billy Graham saying at Earls Court back in 1966 that the Christian Church in England should organise itself like the Communist Party : by forming active and multiplying cells , fixing a timetable , planning a strategy and working it through . |
| 59 | I first met Alan Sugar back in 1980 at Hulton House on Fleet Street when he floated off the company at an effective price of just under 2p a share , adjusting for scrips and the like which came later . |
| 60 | That body 's president has welcomed the formation of the National Olympic Committee of South Africa ( NOCSA ) , representing all sorts of rival sporting associations , whose chairman , Sam Ramsamy — a veteran campaigner for the sports boycott — now wants to get South Africans back into international competition . |