Example sentences of "back [prep] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sold him for £100,000 to race in America and bought him back for £25,000 when he did nothing over there . |
| 2 | They demanded that the Shah , who had fled from Iran and who was undergoing treatment for cancer in the USA , should be sent back for trial before the hostages were set free . |
| 3 | After that there was no way back for Foulds as Doherty raced away for a 5–2 win , sealing it with a 60 break in what proved to be the final frame . |
| 4 | Oh I need to take that back for Friday because |
| 5 | They had been heading back towards London when the strange conflict in the sky had been picked up by UNIT . |
| 6 | All this happened in the twinkling of an eye and just as quickly I extricated myself from the upholstered prison , scraped up my hat and tried to bash it back into shape as I hobbled to retrieve a far-flung shoe . |
| 7 | On impact the ARC flares out and springs back into shape as the foot comes back to its original position and shape . |
| 8 | From the Bloody Bush pillar retrace your steps , going back into Scotland until just before the summit of the hill you see a small cairn on the right . |
| 9 | Atheists , who have destroyed the continuum by insisting that death is the end , have failed to take into account that this arid conclusion must feed back into life as it is lived , making it seem haphazard and futile and emphasising its injustices . |
| 10 | The first slip by Eachus was a turning point in the match , bringing Glenavon back into contention after they had fallen behind in a bright start by Bangor . |
| 11 | The first slip by Eachus was a turning point in the match , bringing Glenavon back into contention after they had fallen behind in a bright start by Bangor . |
| 12 | Comparing notes with an airship enthusiast the other day , I learned that the Falklands campaign might bring the airship back into favour because it can be sent up for a good look at the surroundings , especially at sea . |
| 13 | Of course , there might be other forms of intelligent life , not dreamed of even by writers of science fiction , that did not require the light of a star like the sun or the heavier chemical elements that are made in stars and are flung back into space when the stars explode . |
| 14 | Although this book is about marriage , this chapter needs to take the reader back into history because therein lie our roots and forgotten history has a tendency to be relived . |
| 15 | If you talk to women in the sort of project where she 's working , I think you do get a very strong picture of people who have very little confidence in themselves and certainly think that education is not for them , and if you then look at projects like second chance for women , there 's a range of access projects , particularly for for people who want to get back into education when they think that they 've had precious little chance to get anything out of education when they were at school themselves . |
| 16 | He dived back into cover as the bullets whined and ricocheted off the steel around him . |
| 17 | Wearing its manpower resource hat , Pencom Systems Inc is recycling redundant and retired IBM employees back into IBM as subcontractors under what it hopes will become a US-wide outplacement program : It 's starting with veterans of IBM 's AIX and OS/2 environments . |
| 18 | External UPSs , on the other hand , have to convert their battery-generated DC into AC before feeding it to the computer , which then has to convert the AC back into DC before it can be used . |
| 19 | Each member of her family and each of her close friends will have different strengths upon which she will need to draw , and together you should try to form a bridge over which she can gradually cross from the barren wasteland of her sorrow back into society where her new role awaits her . |
| 20 | He has concentrated on writing for some years , but says he will go back into court when , and if , he finds a case that appeals to him . |
| 21 | I have given up begging to be taken back into service since it is plain Annunciata is preferred . |
| 22 | Some newspapers are already running at a loss in the hope that they will move back into profit when the economic situation improves . |
| 23 | He would always kick it back into play whereas Lukic , more often than not , would kick it into touch . |
| 24 | Between them they tied a rope from the vehicle to the bridge and dragged it back into position so it could be opened the correct way . |
| 25 | Once we have ruled out the secular notion that authority implies superiority , we can then get it back into perspective as simply a necessary tool in executing responsibility . |
| 26 | Log back into LIFESPAN as QA APPROVER , read the mail ( telling QA APPROVER to approve the package ) and prepare the package for approval , using Option 1.5.2 . |
| 27 | The aim is to encourage a flow of used product materials back into industry as secondary raw material . |
| 28 | I , I waited until I got back into Switzerland before I said I 've been to Italy and I have n't got a scratch on the car . |
| 29 | At the same time I was working on a small English-Burmese dictionary with about 3,500 of the most common words likely to be needed by government workers going back into Burma when liberation should come . |
| 30 | ‘ Saville 's can not possibly do anywhere near as good a job in bringing that site back into use as the local authorities could if they acquired the site themselves . ’ |