Example sentences of "[noun prp] back [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Llewellyn 's long , diagonal punt soon put Newport back into Bridgend territory . |
| 2 | The post had been vacant since the resignation of Chedli Klibi ( Tunisia ) in September 1990 , when inter-Arab divisions heightened by the Gulf war had contributed to controversy over the timing of the proposed relocation of the Arab League headquarters from Tunis back to Cairo [ see p. 37726 ] . |
| 3 | Gazza is eager to fix up a friendly with his former club and Newcastle chairman Sir John Hall said : ‘ Our fans would love to see Gazza back at St James ' Park . ’ |
| 4 | Subsequent financial woes — he had quit his job as a broker to work on a show for the Boone gallery — sent Koons back to Pennsylvania , where he lived with his parents for several months before heading to Florida for a political campaign job that brought him enough money to return to New York . |
| 5 | Marianne Brace spent eight months taking the Ashleys back to Pimlico , Brasted , Machynlleth and Tybrith , in order to produce a valuable archive document of an amazing , late-twentieth-century success story . |
| 6 | The Raasay ferry takes only a handful of vehicles and rather more passengers , and travels frequently , and if the ferryman finds that he has no room for you on his last run of the day from Raasay back to Sconser he will return . |
| 7 | So while he could have given this kind old Cornish gentleman an eye-opening insight into the plans being made on the Continent of Europe to bring England back within Rome 's jurisdiction , he was content to let his host do most of the talking . |
| 8 | Detectives brought Gore back to Gloucestershire for questioning . |
| 9 | Stirling sent his men from Siwa back to Kabrit and he himself made for Cairo , where he arrived in the midst of what became known as ‘ The Flap ’ . |
| 10 | The memory of that game brought Ginny back to Johnny Redburn : the last time Ginny remembered playing it was when he and his wife came to stay in August 1964 . |
| 11 | Middlesbrough manager Bobby Murdoch brought Hankin back into Englsih football and was sacked a week later . |
| 12 | The publicity the film attracted in Cannes followed Nicholson back to America where it was due for New York opening in July which , as Karen Black told me later , was an odd time : ‘ It was a college film and so it goes on release at exactly the same time as the colleges are closing down for the summer and everyone is going home . ’ |
| 13 | But it was , but it 's good news for Oxfordshire is n't it — Nigel back to Williams . |
| 14 | He decided to accompany Beattie back to Newtownabbey . |
| 15 | ‘ Had Father brought Winnie back to Winnipeg we might never have had the Pooh stories , ’ says Fred Colebourn , Harry 's son . |
| 16 | John told of his epic journey , when he pedalled 12,500 miles from Sydney back to Liverpool for charity . |
| 17 | We came on a , I think it was on a Friday or Saturday morning and I had to go back Sunday night , cos I was on duty on the Monday back in Plymouth , and I did a month in Plymouth , er , a month or five weeks no longer , and I came up each weekend to see them , my wife was left there then . |
| 18 | There was some slight discussion whether the British should keep Canada or should choose the large French sugar islands like Martinique and Guadeloupe ; very few politicians close to the centre of power thought of giving Canada back to France , but the issue underlined the fact that Canada was unlikely to provide much revenue for the British treasury directly , and certainly would not provide the amount of revenue that sugar for re-export would give at a time when Britain used for consumption or for manufacture all that her West Indian islands could produce . |
| 19 | Rosemary Duncan-Smith had made her views plain when driving Meg back to Norwich station after her interview . |
| 20 | Albert himself took Sam back to Bella . |
| 21 | They sent Hamilton back to Scotland with Ivone Kirkpatrick , one of our men working for the BBC who 'd met Hess a couple of times in Berlin , when he was with the FO . |
| 22 | We are expecting the locals from Backnong back to Chelmsford in the middle of November . |
| 23 | I took Jacqui and Frances back to Southwark and collected my wages from Simon . |
| 24 | Cash-strapped City boss Peter Reid , who dismissed talk of bringing Paul Stewart back to Maine Road from Anfield , insisted : ‘ This is a vitally important game for both clubs . ’ |
| 25 | Now he 's backing Best to go one better and lead Bangor back to Europe as winners . |
| 26 | It 's a delight to welcome Maighread back to Belfast to herald the release of that album . |
| 27 | When Swindon first played Tranmere back in December , a power surge sent the sparks flying , blew a fuse box and a floodlight failure abandoned the game . |
| 28 | In his letter announcing the betrothal , João had said that he would come to Ireland in the summer in order to take Sara back to Lisbon before the autumn storms , so her expectation of his arrival mounted with each passing day . |
| 29 | Already , he has won one Royal Aero Club Bronze medal , earned by flying his immaculate Bucker Jungmann G-TAFF ( he 's Welsh , you see ) solo from Australia back to Yorkshire . |
| 30 | The operation to ship Rudman back to Britain began after he waived his right to appeal to the Irish High Court , and then the Supreme Court , against extradition , a process which could have taken months . |