Example sentences of "back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , if you take the back off a watch you wo n't find 15 individual flip-flops inside . |
| 2 | You ca n't save calculations , but you can track back through a chain of arithmetic , alter figures , and see the alterations reflected in the final sum . |
| 3 | Maybe I 've strayed into another world and I 'll get back through a looking-glass . |
| 4 | To look back through a history of censorship in libraries is an instructive and fascinating experience ( and there is no better way than through Thompson 's Censorship in public libraries in the United Kingdom during the Twentieth Century ) . |
| 5 | Resisting stubbornly , the Highland units were pushed back through a 180° arc for nearly two miles [ 3.2 km ] and driven across the River Allan , while the Jacobite right forced Argyll 's left to retreat towards Stirling . |
| 6 | That came back through a separate AC30 so they could both distort to their hearts ’ content and not interfere with each other . |
| 7 | Make sure you lean back through a curved spine and rock off the heel of your hands for added support . |
| 8 | It was not her harmonica , it was higher pitched , a peeping sound like a poor recording played back through a tiny speaker . |
| 9 | To deduce even the sequence of the pieces of wire was difficult enough , but sufficient wire was played back through a specially made read-out head to establish beyond doubt what had happened . |
| 10 | He parked the car a street away and walked back through a gauntlet of whispers and stony smiles . |
| 11 | She flicked back through a number of the loose-leaf pages , quickly at first and then slowing as the date that she was seeking came closer . |
| 12 | I was on my way down at three o'clock in the strange light of an ominous red dawn , back through a sleeping Fort William and on board for breakfast , weary but elated with my stolen night on the roof of Britain . |
| 13 | And gives movement to the arms of the scissors and so back through the sieves to the chariot and the moulds . |
| 14 | ‘ No , you ca n't ! ’ said Thomas , coming back through the baize door positively pink with self-importance . |
| 15 | It is an idea — the idea that the practice of our art should ideally be an avocation rather than a vocation — which has a distinguished and ancient lineage , to be traced back through the English bourgeois idea of ‘ the gentleman ’ to the Italian aristocratic idea of ‘ the courtier ’ . |
| 16 | Then Maggie followed the thread back through the atmosphere barrier . |
| 17 | As you drive , this NVH manifests itself in the form of tiny vibrations fed back through the steering wheel and the gruff , uninspiring sounds from the SE-FHE engine . |
| 18 | Wexford went back through the Cullam 's living room . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Let us concentrate rather on the last sentence of the paragraph quoted and work our way back through the foregoing non sequiturs . |
| 21 | If he could root back through the maze of moment and incident , would he find premonitory signs sticking out like dire figurations of chicken entrails ? |
| 22 | He flipped back through the book looking at his entries , neat , and pages of notes about the pheasants and the weather and the times he 'd been up there . |
| 23 | Then he hurried back through the wood , down the field and along the road past the stream . |
| 24 | She came back through the kitchen and gave him the torch . |
| 25 | We turned back through the village again and up to Claro . |
| 26 | The slow dance was quickening , swirling them back and back through the darkening woods and stabbing gorse of memory to the sheep trying to escape the cold night and , beyond that , to the ways in which each of them , Forest girl and Forest boy , had first joined body with another . |
| 27 | We were driven back through the nearly empty streets . |
| 28 | ‘ And she likes the house to stay just the same , ’ she remarked to Fru Gertlinger , as she swept back through the green-baize door for yet more toast , ‘ so she 's not going to object to the blue room being returned to its former colours . |
| 29 | They shuffle out to a soft rhythmic crunching underfoot , reminiscent of how the boots of Napoleon 's legions must have sounded trudging back through the Russian snows . |
| 30 | Managers may respond by devising routines which will improve the output results but these will have a dramatic effect upon the processes of education back through the school life of every child . |