Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a matter of minutes , the attackers had been routed , only a few surviving to run back into the streets where the morning had yet to dispel the darkness . |
| 2 | The fifty one year old tried to crawl back to the house but collapsed . |
| 3 | Blackwell Retail Ltd edged back into the black — if only just — in the year to end-August 1992 , after two years of losses . |
| 4 | All three ran back to the trough prepared to swim for it as the boys had done several times before . |
| 5 | His slides were good and his descriptions fairly accurate , but I sensed we were all glad to get back to the comfort of the hotel and I to my electric fire . |
| 6 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp shares jumped almost 8.5% on Friday on hopes that the government will spend heavily on a major new communications network : Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said on Thursday that an economic stimulus package , widely expected to include funds for a network of high-speed fibre optic cables , would be even larger than 1992 's supplementary budget ; if the government steps in with new funding , the state-controlled phone company would likely end up laying the cable and providing services ; the project is the one first mooted back in the early 1980s to connect every home and business in Japan . |
| 7 | The other three looked back at the Shuttle . |
| 8 | Work again over same two stitches and put original two stitches back on the needles ; miss eight stitches ; repeat from * to end . |