Example sentences of "[vb pp] back [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 A radar pulse scattered back by the planet is spread over a distance range which exceeds that of the transmitted pulse by an amount equal to the radius of the planet .
2 Tens of thousands were reported back on the streets in Timisoara yesterday , defying a state of emergency , a curfew , and a ban on assembly of more than five persons imposed on the region .
3 This is always agreed to and the Bill is then reported back to the House .
4 The Bill is reported back to the whole House as amended .
5 in nineteen eighty nine if I recall there was a divisional structure which er comprised of a number of companies within the division and there was a managing director of that division who would have reported back to the board
6 At Milton Keynes Magistrates Court today the youth was remaded back into the care of the local authority and is again in the childrens home …
7 But its annual surpluses ( $56 billion in fiscal 1989 ) are added back for the purposes of the Gramm-Rudman deficit-cutting law .
8 The residuals are smoothed using the same recipe as before , and the results are added back to the results of the first smooth ; this is illustrated in exercise 9.1 .
9 A high-pass filter was used to isolate the local ( high-frequency ) variation which was then added back to the image so that the local component was effectively doubled , thus amplifying or exaggerating its importance .
10 They had come back across the river and they were in a street close to the Embassy .
11 Sam Somerville had come back into the room , shouting at the bugs : ‘ He 's gone .
12 But he admitted : ‘ It is a crashing diappointment for Rob because he had only just come back into the side — and his return coincided with two successive clean sheets . ’
13 Sandra had come back into the room , and somehow she was at Matthew 's side , holding his hand and weeping .
14 He did not believe that Rose , if she had come back into the flat , would have let the cat out , or left it unfed .
15 When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning .
16 The trouble was that Deborah had never come back through the wood before , only the one way — to Pack Meetings .
17 The three of them had come back down the tunnel to the entrance , with the man pushing Nona in front of him as a hostage .
18 He 'd have come back at the weekend , most likely .
19 I have come back to the international scene with a fierce rival in Phil Tufnell , with Ian Salisbury breathing down our necks and Hampshire 's young Sean Udal making great strides every season .
20 Top flight football should have come back to The Valley .
21 The woman had come back to the farm 's archway from where she and two men stared nervously up the road towards Frasnes .
22 The three other members of the crew had just come back to the pump — we were doing " series pumping " — they had brought me a bottle of beer and I was taking a swig .
23 After wartime service in the RAF he had come back to the School , and with his friends Mr. Norris and Mr. Hardie had helped to introduce Rugby to the School .
24 It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field .
25 She had come back to the nursery ready to sympathize with Nannie about the underarm cramp caused by her inside .
26 But they had finished with Elise 's death , and now Merrill had come back to the Midlands city where she and Elise had grown up before they went their separate ways .
27 ‘ Two other factors will make us a better team this season — Keith Finlay has come back to the club from North Fermanagh and that has stiffened our batting while Tony Johnson from Barbados is a superb all rounder . ’
28 It is interesting , is n't it , that er I knew the road to Damascus was long , but I did n't realise it were that long cos on the second of July the Tories moved an amendment at P and R criticising us for spending money on the Lord Mayor 's car , but I 'm glad to see that you 've come back to the fold .
29 He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them .
30 The devilish smile , oblique and sharp as a scar , had come back to the gaunt face .
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