Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owing to a bizarre mix-up between a Japanese morse operator in the South China Sea , and new early closing times at Whaddon Post Office , when football finally got back to normal in 1946 , Athletico , now fielding eleven internationals , found themselves in the Mid-Counties Combination instead of the higher Mid-Counties South-West League ( Northern Division ) . |
| 2 | During the early part of 1988 the focus of research gradually moved back towards the piezonuclear fusion . |
| 3 | Britain 's unheralded side twice fought back from behind to snatch a deserved point against Poland in the first match of the Olympic qualifying tournament in Sheffield last night . |
| 4 | The hospitaller suddenly stepped back in panic as the bear sprang into life , towering above him , its great paws clawing the air . |
| 5 | Among those giving evidence were two care workers , who said the girl regularly arrived back to the home in the early hours of the morning and sometimes not at all . |
| 6 | The director duly reported back to base camp that Douglas had rejected every concession he had made in order to get him to accept the part . |
| 7 | As other members of the pride moved in to share the meal , the remaining zebras in the herd at first startled by the drama quickly settled back to grazing . |
| 8 | Roman casually leaned back in his chair and sipped his drink with relish . |
| 9 | Drainpipe trousers and fluorescent socks , drape jacket , bootlace tie and hair carefully greased back into a DA style — the Teddy Boy certainly livened up the Fifties . |
| 10 | THE AUDEN GENERATION by Samuel Hynes Pimlico , £12 THIS literary history of England in the Thirties ( a decade often looked back upon nostalgically as the most recent time when literary giants still stalked the land ) is more than the usual glib account of the rise to fame of that precocious composite poet MacSpaunday . |
| 11 | PAKISTAN 'S under-fire fast bowlers Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram last night angrily hit back at Allan Lamb 's ball-doctoring allegations . |
| 12 | There had been a light snowfall the previous night but it looked as if someone else had been here , visited the witch then gone back to the line of trees , covering their tracks by using a switch of old branches so no imprint could be seen . |
| 13 | Then the instrument was relaid with the crosshead towards the west so that the lengthening shadow gradually moved back along the hour marks to the twelfth . |
| 14 | Twenty minutes later , wearing her grey flannel trousers and mole-coloured jersey and with her hair casually tied back in a velvet ribbon , Julia walked into the salon , only to be brought up short by the sight of David staring blankly at a yellow form in his right hand , a tumbler of whisky ignored and tilting in his left . |
| 15 | I have seen in my own area where wee lads who were on the border line of going one way or another regarding life in Northern Ireland , ending up getting jobs and doing great for a year and at the end of the year just thrown back onto the dole and people have lost interest in them again . |
| 16 | Discuss in or out of role — with the results of the discussion later fed back into the whole group . |
| 17 | His head was crushed , and the stone coldly fitted back into its mound . |
| 18 | Mrs Thatcher was known to dislike the rating system but the rates continued to climb , largely because the Treasury steadily cut back on the grants paid to local authorities . |
| 19 | In the urge to protect itself for the negative battles of the present , the party thus pulled back from its only truly positive policy for the future . |
| 20 | And that would be soon as ever he had his own son safely established back under this roof , where he should have been all along ! |