Example sentences of "back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And gives movement to the arms of the scissors and so back through the sieves to the chariot and the moulds . |
| 2 | ‘ No , you ca n't ! ’ said Thomas , coming back through the baize door positively pink with self-importance . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Then Maggie followed the thread back through the atmosphere barrier . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Wexford went back through the Cullam 's living room . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Let us concentrate rather on the last sentence of the paragraph quoted and work our way back through the foregoing non sequiturs . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Then he hurried back through the wood , down the field and along the road past the stream . |
| 12 | She came back through the kitchen and gave him the torch . |
| 13 | We turned back through the village again and up to Claro . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We were driven back through the nearly empty streets . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Flat on his stomach , he slid across the cockpit to lead the other two lines over the taffrail and back through the portside stern anchor cleat to the portside winch . |
| 20 | Just 100 yards from the seafront and you step back through the centuries , giving you a real feel of medieval life . |
| 21 | Walk back through the square and past the Church of Our Lady Under the Chain to Míšeňská Street . |
| 22 | Eachuinn Odhar turned to glare ; then , his face changing to incredulous welcome , abruptly pushed back through the crowd towards a young man at the foot of the stair , newly washed and shaved , tall and striking in his best breacan-feile , a clean white cloth over his eyes ; led by a little girl . |
| 23 | They bumped into him as they went back through the wire and held a whispered council of war . |
| 24 | by no means all rhyolite lavas are associated with obsidian — the majority are not — and , as one goes further back through the geological record , obsidian becomes progressively more and more scarce , due to devitrification , and none at all is found in rocks more than a few million years old . |
| 25 | After a quick glance back through the shop ( Maisie and Ruthie were staring out at the street in silence ) Henry slid one sheet of the printed paper into Gordon 's typewriter . |
| 26 | He made no rejoinder but retreated back through the communicating door ; and she went on serving the customer . |
| 27 | She did n't intend to miss her Saturday-morning ride , though , and so , on leaving Pack Meeting , she took the path back through the wood . |
| 28 | The trouble was that Deborah had never come back through the wood before , only the one way — to Pack Meetings . |
| 29 | Deborah turned away from the signpost and began wading back through the deep undergrowth to the main path , intending to break into a run when she reached it ; but just as she turned off she heard a faint , distant , reedy cry , which stopped her in her tracks . |
| 30 | ‘ I should n't really haff talked to a stranger like that , ’ she thought , as she hurried back through the wood , ‘ especially a tramp , but if people drop paper about they really ought to be told , because they get other people into trouble . |