Example sentences of "[vb pp] back [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our other major domestic market , the distilling industry has come back strongly from the low levels of production of the early 1980s and appears full of optimism , if the huge rise in the share prices of quoted distilling companies is a fair yardstick . |
| 2 | ‘ Years ago we threw the old didacticism ( dowdy morality ) out of the window ; it has come back in at the door wearing modern dress ( smart values ) and we do not even recognize it ’ ( p. 159 ) . |
| 3 | Cameron and Menzies were squeezed back nearly into the house , and big Mary , finding herself hard up against Menzies , took his arm , cleared a space with a sideways butt of her hip , and twirled once round with him . |
| 4 | That 's where the blood leads by , okay , on that side of the heart the left hand side of the heart it 's being pumped and therefore the muscle is a bigger muscle , that 's doing the contracting , the blood push out and it relaxes back again and that allows the blood to be sucked back down into the heart , okay , and the next time it 's shh , that goes out and then it relaxes down again and the blood sucks back down into the heart , okay so that 's what it does , all the muscle can do is that , muscle can only retract and then it relaxes , contract and then it relaxes , that 's what the heart 's doing all the time , how many beats a minute ? |
| 5 | When she had been strapped back on to the bed beside a tray of sinister-looking instruments in the medical centre , Benny had tensed her muscles as best she could , before the guards had fixed the buckles and left . |
| 6 | The conclusions will be fed back in to the teamwork scheme . |
| 7 | The encoder is set to generate a position pulse corresponding to a 0° switching angle and this pulse is fed back directly to the phase excitation circuit , when the appropriate position is reached during the first step . |
| 8 | When records are being updated during the run , and so have to be written back on to the device after they have been read into main storage , this method involves no loss of time . |
| 9 | The Russians were pushed back northwards to the Stanovoi mountains , where the frontier fixed in 1689 by the Treaty of Nerchinsk was recognized until the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | In the 1970s and 1980s , left-wing guerrilla groups moved into the cities , trained teenagers in the use of weapons and were then pushed back in to the countryside by the army . |
| 11 | The use of this experimental design can not exclude the possibility that Ac-ASA is pushed back out of the cell after its uptake , as a small excretion rate could not be detected in the presence of such large extracellular quantities . |
| 12 | By May 3 up to 500 Moroccans were being turned back daily from the southern Spanish port of Algeciras as they attempted to enter before May 15 , when a visa became necessary for visitors who were citizens of Morocco , Algeria , Tunisia and Mauritania . |
| 13 | The bodies of two young boys have been stitched back together in the mortuary of this place . |
| 14 | It disgraced itself on the Cambrian Coast Express some weeks ago and was hauled back ignominiously to the works where a tremendous flap occurred as to who paid for the necessary . |
| 15 | Saturday at sundown it was sold back again to the Reichmanns . |
| 16 | Then salts are actively transported back out of the tubules into the blood , against the concentration gradient , leaving behind in the tubules a very dilute urine , which is voided to the outside . |
| 17 | Ca n't tell you how long a journey it was back in the fog from Liverpool that day , and then when we were relegated back again to the third division it was on the last match of the season against Charlton , and the heavens opened and a big thunder storm and it just flooded the pitch and the referee just called the match off and they had to play it again the following Friday and Charlton ran out two-one winners and Walsall finished with nine fit men and still that 's the football I suppose . |
| 18 | As it happened , the entire episode was resolved after The Smiths decided to repoen communications with the label and a somewhat confused Easterhouse were invited back on to the Scottish tour . |
| 19 | The dismissals were announced the day after Girija Prasad Koirala , the general secretary of the Nepali Congress Party , had delivered a message to the King warning him that unless substantial powers were quickly turned over to the new government , crowds would be called back on to the streets of Kathmandu . |
| 20 | Three were dragged back on to the train and taken by the scruff of the neck from station to police car . |
| 21 | Three were dragged back on to the train and taken by the scruff of the neck from station to police car . |
| 22 | Slicked back severely from the face into glistening tails , unruffled by ocean breezes , Spanish hair is understated minimalism . |
| 23 | Other raw material was flown back daily to the CIA in America and here too a special department had to be set up to cope with the volume . |
| 24 | Accepting this , some members of the British Government seem to have fallen back on to the second misconception . |
| 25 | As she was pressed back on to the couch her mind raced madly in protest , but all she managed to bring out in a kind of croak was , ‘ No , Daddy , no . ’ |
| 26 | The new Chaplain had done a lot of good work and was given back up by the other Chaplains . |
| 27 | Perhaps the train in Aunt Louise 's mind had jumped back on to the rail for a while because it was then , in quite a conversational voice , that she began to speak of her daughter . |
| 28 | From this perspective Levinas proposes the possibility that the much lamented ‘ subject ’ be brought back not as the ontological subject which seeks to reduce everything to itself but as an ethical subject defined in relation to the other : ‘ Ethics redefines subjectivity as this heteronomous responsibility in contrast to autonomous freedom ’ . |
| 29 | Before doing so I should say by way of parenthesis that I have totally bypassed the colleagues who are currently members of the Government , several of whom suggested privately that they would resign if the Maastricht bill or anything like it is brought back on to the floor of the House of Commons . |
| 30 | The King 's corpse , together with the saddle and bridle , was brought back here to the castle . ’ |