Example sentences of "back [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no one at the pumping station in the Old Town , so the two of them headed back through the dockside streets to find out what was happening . |
| 2 | She ran like the wind back to the apartment and tumbled her few clothes into bags , then raced back through the back alleys to avoid the crowds and finally met Lucenzo pacing up and down by the column . |
| 3 | As the Welfare Officer drove back through the camp gates she was greeted by the smell of a well-smouldering barbecue and the news that the Greenfinch rounders team had lost heavily in a tournament at RAF AIdergrove . |
| 4 | Keep the board level ; move back as the wind increases . |
| 5 | Keeping a little white icing back for the wave crests , tint the remaining royal icing shades of different blues and greens for the sea . |
| 6 | He hopes to be back for the play offs . |
| 7 | However , prop Paul Burnell will be back for the league games , while Allan and Margot Wells will continue in their role of fitness and speed trainers . |
| 8 | She shivered as they started to walk back towards the pine trees , black now and menacing . |
| 9 | At the County Ground , Swindon Town battled their way back amongst the play-off contenders . |
| 10 | And Cardiff knew , as the thing pulled him sharply back against the metal stair-rails with an echoing clatter , that the thing had double-backed to the sounds from the service corridor , had torn the still-imprisoned Farley Peters from the wall . |
| 11 | ‘ You are no trouble , ’ she had said , lying back against the satin cushions , smelling of rosewater and musk . |
| 12 | Alexandra leaned back against the sofa cushions . |
| 13 | To find the angle of the legs draw them from well back under the tail coverts and place the feet under the head to balance the body ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In America corporate bosses and Wall Street are in rare agreement about the need to get retail investors back onto the shareholding registers . |
| 16 | Erm you go back onto the performance guidelines that have been basically imposed citizens charter really at the end of the day . |
| 17 | The guards were changed and the prisoners settled back onto the luggage racks or the floor or the upright wooden seats to sleep . |
| 18 | We came back with the ice creams and we sat there , just sitting there , all in a row . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've invested our money back into a system others can come through , which is a way for us to stay fresh and help people we believe in . ’ |
| 20 | Evening turned into night with considerable speed in the tropics , and by the time Howard 's smouldering car crawled back into the university grounds , it was almost fully dark . |
| 21 | With any luck I 'd have time to dry my hair and dive back into the satin whatsits before he arrived . |
| 22 | Edward , alone in his room in the long wastes of those summer days , looked back into the exercise books and noted his own absence . |
| 23 | Corrosion-control of the containers and the vaults wilt be achieved by recirculating a portion of the warm outgoing air back into the inlet ducts . |
| 24 | The orangs were gradually forced back into the mountain forests . |
| 25 | Pile back into the potato shells , then bake in the oven at 220°C ( 450°F ) Gas mark 7 for about 20min . |
| 26 | Elliott Gabellah , vice president of the Rhodesian ANC , met us the day after he came back from the independence celebrations . |
| 27 | The Corn Is Green was to be done on the new medium of television in 1946 and somehow Philip wangled leave of absence from the RAF for Richard who yet again played Morgan Evans and yet again was pulled back from the gypsy snares of freewheeling pleasure to the source and the purpose of it all . |
| 28 | Major debt defaults in Mexico and Brazil had prompted a worldwide retreat from international bank lending and the virtual collapse of the syndicated loan market ; since then , unofficial observers estimated that some $45,000 million of net development capital aid had flowed back from the borrowing countries and towards the lenders . |
| 29 | I saw you coming back from the communion rails , with your eyes down and your hands folded , as if you were n't putrid inside , but I know . |
| 30 | Stepping back from the display cabinets , hoping to sit down on the window-seat , she made a false move and bumped into something cold . |