Example sentences of "back [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | So he said I was being very stubborn and that I 'd be lucky to get my daughter back through drug addiction and one thing and another . |
| 2 | The recognition that ideas are not the pure result of cognition but are affected by the human context of cognition , can be traced back through philosophy — Larrain goes back to the fifteenth century to Machiavelli ( Larrain 1979 : 17 ) . |
| 3 | And again looking back through history , Nottingham 's red light district is . |
| 4 | And back through history . |
| 5 | If the sound from each microphone is separately recorded on a two-channel disc or tape , and played back through stereo headphones , the listener hears a remarkable replica of the original sound field . |
| 6 | If it 's under a thousand pounds , you ca n't get the money back through funding , and the policy is void . |
| 7 | We , eh , every day we walk right round field up Bennett Dork and back through town and back home every day |
| 8 | Users can track forward and back through cross references in the encyclopaedia articles themselves by using a single keystroke . |
| 9 | The answer is that after mating they produce a tiny mobile larvae totally different to the adult this might drift for miles on ocean current before settling into the fixed adult form Down Norwick power station in North Wales , generates the electricity by pump storage , in off peak hours thousands of gallons of water are pumped from a lower lake to an upper lake , when the demand for electricity is high bowels are opened and water falls back through turbine to the lower lake again , this generates the power To ensure that the lower lake would never flood the was diverted through mile long tunnel in the mountain side , no one knew for certain how the salmon , the trout and even rarer that used to migrate up the old river would cope with the tunnels , pitch darkness and slow flowing water . |
| 10 | Blood can not flow back through valve |
| 11 | Duck resembles large duck Teal , with conspicuous pale spot at base of bill , dark line back through eye , surmounted by a broken pale spot . |
| 12 | These ‘ fireside ’ monologues emerge from an assortment of inter-related characters and jump back through time to poor white Adam , ( Nature 's mistake ) . |
| 13 | They remember that the guardians of the tree run back through time to the one who only sang and never spoke , who used to keep vigil by the tree , where the sorceress Sycorax ( but they have forgotten her name ) lies deep with her grave goods . |
| 14 | It may have been the combination of the early hour and a squeamish stomach , but during the whole of our short stay on the island I had a most peculiar feeling of being transported back through time to another age . |
| 15 | I read them and cried as they took me back through time , down the long bloody passageways of the last seventy-five years . |
| 16 | He gave it to the driver of the taxi he found outside , who whisked him back up the hill again , back through time to a medieval alley smelling of woodsmoke and urine . |
| 17 | Not only does Orlando explore gender issues and sexual politics , in which Swinton is interested , but it also presents a sweep of family history , with which she can identify ; the family line stretching back through time , the ancient portraits in which one can see one 's own features . |
| 18 | She flew back through imagination to the festival at Shadoxhurst , to the dancers , the nonsense words they often chanted as they went through their formations . |
| 19 | ‘ He could be back as coach or manager in four years time . |
| 20 | IF Forest decide to sign Nigel Jemson , their old boy at Wednesday , winger Kingsley Black could go back as part of the deal . |
| 21 | t two minutes in the morning two minutes in the evening , that all will help grow one 's hair back as part of a programme . |
| 22 | Rob , along with locals Vic Cope and Phil Harper , spent three long , hard days and nights driving a TK Bedford 2,271 miles from Royston to Caratis in Zagreb and back as part of a Friendship Link between Great St Mary 's Church in Cambridge and St Mary 's Parish in Caratis . |
| 23 | ‘ We 're going to take Sarah , grind her up and send her back as hamburger meat . ’ |
| 24 | At other times it has been possible for an individual to bring foreign coins or bullion to the mint and receive it back as coinage ( minus a fee ) . |
| 25 | All the Tories needed to win was to play those interviews back as party political broadcasts . |
| 26 | IF Baroness Thatcher is feeling just a teensy weensy bit smug at the news that the Tories are in such a mess that a high proportion of them want her back as leader , well who can blame her ? |
| 27 | ‘ At least , not since we were in the Store and believed we came back as garden ornaments , eh ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm helping to set out the stalls for the hospital bazaar — should be back about midday , ’ she called , as she let herself out of the house . |
| 29 | Back about midnight , I 'd say . ’ |
| 30 | She caught him again on the way back between oven and table , and sank herself into him once more , but after a moment became conscious that he was having to make a considerable effort to hold the hot saucepan away from her at arm 's length . |