Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [verb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 .
2 They sat in the parlour , on the evening of Saturday , September 2nd , waiting for Menzies ' man Allan Stewart to come back with the news from Blair Atoll .
3 He said that the official in charge of antiquities at the Nasiriya Museum had received from the Americans a ‘ very small number ’ of terracotta objects dating back to the dawn of mankind and the Babylonian period , some of which had only recently been broken .
4 To the left of them , a conch shell brought back from the Indian Ocean curled mysteriously in on itself , like the pink and white entrance to another world .
5 Armed vigilante groups fight back against the gangs , adding to a vicious circle of violence .
6 Perhaps the DNA of the mule germ-cells mutates back to the parental forms or , more speculatively , as Taylor and Short suggest , borrows chromatin ( chromosomal material ) from a neighbouring cell .
7 Roger Courtney went back to the raiding of the SBS which we will follow in later Chapters .
8 A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune .
9 After an indifferent start to the season Surrey 's David Ward bounced back with a NatWest century against Glamorgan , then went on to record the fastest first-class hundred of the season ( 70 balls ) against Northants
10 As they parked and headed for the open front door , a smiling woman in a dusky pink two-piece and with her silver hair caught back in a chignon appeared to welcome them .
11 Tendulkar and Richard Blakey hit back with a stand of 176 in 24 overs , but then Neil Fairbrother swooped to run out the Indian ace with a direct hit .
12 And in the library there is a more recent collection of men 's pin-up books dating back to the Fifties .
13 Introduced last summer to bring stock car racing back to a more affordable level , their early outings showed promise , with the Christmas meeting at Foxhall producing 30 starters and some excellent racing .
14 Stoneywood Mill dates back to the eighteenth century , and is now part of the Wiggins Teape Group .
15 Later in the year , when the poet Apollinaire came back from the war with a head wound , a grand banquet was held in his honour at the Palais d'Orléans in the Boulevard du Maine .
16 Persian forces crossed the river Araxes in mid-July 1826 and forced Russia 's frontier troops to fall back on the Georgian capital of Tiflis ( Tbilisi ) .
17 WHAT MEMORIES the Echo article brought back about the evacuation .
18 Research studies demonstrated back in the 1970s the fact that exhaust emissions contained dangerous toxins , in particular lead .
19 In thesimpler organisms , the feedback signal goes back to the boundaries on which the stimuli impinge .
20 Now , as the echo wavefronts stream back from the tree towards the approaching bat , the bat is still moving fast towards them .
21 Miss Harker jumped back with a stifled cry and put up her hands to protect herself .
22 In the very early hours of Saturday morning transfer back to the airport for your flight to London Heathrow .
23 ‘ Going about , ’ he shouted and watched in amazement the crazed proficiency of the little cocaine addict leaping back into the cockpit to winch the genoa sheet in .
24 When elected in 1981 , the Mitterrand government harked back to the legacy of planning in the first postwar decades ( chapter 18 ) .
25 The other side lever remains back on the .
26 PAT Clinton hit back at the critics who jeered him after he retained his WBO flyweight title in Glasgow on Saturday .
27 Walking through the ancient forest of Wychwood , EV Thompson steps back through the mists of time .
28 But at that moment , as Cicely and Guthrie Hepwood came back into the house from the stables , all she knew was that , while she still wanted Naylor , she could not let him make love to her — not in his aunt 's and uncle 's house with them only in the next-door room , for all she knew .
29 Just before half-time City came back with a goal from Ian Baird it was well made and well taken … food for thought for the United defence and of course Smith who started off in the directors box but was down on the touchline after this incident in which David Penney charged into Junior Bent …
30 The three bedroom property dates back to the 1860s and is situated in Allerton Road right in the heart of Woolton Village .
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