Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there was organised resistance , on their return charge , they would seek to carry on right back to the ford and over , picking up Hay , Wemyss and the prisoners on the way . |
| 2 | How do you erm , well , to get back into Lotus , type exit , and then enter Hang on right back to the spreadsheet . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know how you do it , ’ said Jack , as I moved somewhat magisterially back to my seat . |
| 4 | He was only just back in the house when he heard his Mum draw up in the car . |
| 5 | Hypocrisy is a key element in this plot , too , with the difference that while they started near the top of society and were on the verge of receiving power at the very beginning , he — as a bastard son who is only just back from having spent nine years abroad ( the typical occupation for one who has no prospect of inheritance in his own country ) and is due to go again — starts very much lower down in society , virtually at the bottom . |
| 6 | ‘ XYZ ’ is rooted much further back down the racks of dog-eared discs in the second-hand shops where Moose once worked , back to C&W , maverick balladeers and songwriters like Jim Webb , Lee Hazelwood , Gram Parsons and Fred Neil ( whose ‘ Everybody 's Talkin' ’ gets charmingly worked over here ) rather than soundscapers . |
| 7 | To meet the needs of pupils growing up in such an environment , RE must not assume any religious faith — it has to start much further back with questions of why there is such a phenomenon as religion . |
| 8 | In some ways , we 're much further back from the starting line . |
| 9 | Although the word aromatherapy was coined in the 1920s by the French chemist René Gattefossé , first we shall aim the historical telescope much further back in time to The Beginning . |
| 10 | What sustains him throughout is his recourse to certain fundamental principles of order and authority which , although they may be tangentially related to his espousal of Christianity , have their roots much further back in his own past and particularly in his early study of Bradley and Maurras . |
| 11 | In his second novel , The Inheritors , Golding has stood so far back from modern historical progress as to imagine the supersession of innocent , hairy Neanderthalers by ‘ bone-face men ’ in a prehistoric age : they wear clothes or , as the primitive eye sees it , they step outside their skins . |
| 12 | But it 's so far back in my mind that I ca n't reach it . |
| 13 | In the beginning , so far back in antiquity that no record of it survives , an accident occurred . |
| 14 | In a place like this there are bound to be some good seamstresses and Singers will surely have had their salesmen down here back in the days of the square-riggers . |
| 15 | Yet there 18 on Cezanne , and another 18 on Degas , 15 for Manet and so on back through ages . |
| 16 | With long-term injury victims Graham Hill and Ian Brady only recently back in full training , and not ready for a competitive return , Carroll admits : ‘ The situation does not leave us with many options . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Forgive me , ’ she insisted , but was quickly over her small embarrassment , and , feeling as he steered his vehicle up steep hilly , even mountainous terrain that they must be over halfway back to Mariánské Láznë , she suddenly felt completely happy , and just had to tell him , ‘ I 've had a lovely morning . |
| 18 | One woman traced her like of cooking not only back to her mother but to her grandmother . |
| 19 | Indeed , Sombro was not long back from the town when he arrived at North Point and he appeared tired and wan as he looked up with those big eyes he inherited from the Labrador side of his lineage . |
| 20 | Sorry about the mess , but I 'm not long back from school . |
| 21 | It suppresses the blood-sugar level — not just back to the level before the meal , but even lower than the pre-meal level . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's not far back to the town ! ’ |
| 23 | Nevertheless , it was clear that he was still not fully back to his old self because the tough links courses took their toll as the round wore on . |
| 24 | Bad though it is , the figure suggests that Guatemala is not yet back to the horrors of the early 1980s when death squads , organised by military presidents , murdered at will . |
| 25 | ‘ You know I 'll have to go , ’ Maggie said tremulously , not yet back to earth , her body still shivering with delight and reaction . |
| 26 | Surrey fast bowler Martin Bicknell : back to his best , but not yet back in favour with the selectors |
| 27 | Quite plainly , having so recently finished the work that had absorbed him for almost two years , he was not yet back in the habit of eating lunch at a regular hour . |
| 28 | Sandy McGlashan was not yet back from Anderson 's . |
| 29 | He will probably feel even more hard done by if she is not yet back from her new job . |
| 30 | Her father was not yet back from work , her mother was not yet back from bingo and her brother might be anywhere . |