Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He comes pounding down the ladder , and grabs the wheel and stampedes back into the waves . |
| 2 | Turn left into Bleak Terrace and go back onto the Fell through the wicket gate to the village boundary wall . |
| 3 | The recurrent nerve leaves the hypocerebral ganglion as a median or paired lateral oesophageal nerve and passes back to the hinder region of the fore gut , where it ( or each branch ) terminates in a ventricular ganglion . |
| 4 | So the bit was taken out of his mouth and put back in the proper place , and Wendy continued to calmly trot him around with the other horses ; and Huckleberry kept putting his tongue over the bit again , and again , and again . |
| 5 | I finish my tea and climb back into the Toyota . |
| 6 | Thirty seconds later , he had the whole U-rod assembly unbolted from the car and stepped back out the way he 'd come in . |
| 7 | Instead , not wanting to risk a scene without more evidence of his suspicions , he went back to his car and drove back to the Club , stopping briefly at a couple of pubs on the way to see if Gwen was in either . |
| 8 | For a fleeting moment , she wondered if the woman might have given her deliberately wrong directions but , shrugging the thought away , she started the car and turned back in the direction from which she had just come . |
| 9 | I take the tube and have my first puff and lean back upon the settee , my eyes closed , my legs spread slightly . |
| 10 | If there are no more loans to be entered , the user presses the RETURN key and goes back to the options list . |
| 11 | Okay press the er escape key and go back to the regression results , erm so return to the post regression menu and then display regression results , regressult results again . |
| 12 | I then collect the grassbox and jog back to the front of the house where Pa is waiting . |
| 13 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 14 | They left the goose in the dairy and went back along the passage and through a swing door with baize on one side into a wide , dark hall where a grandfather clock ticked in one corner and a small oil lamp threw shadows . |
| 15 | At your command , our unique GPS Man Overboard feature immediately goes into a special plot mode which continuously gives range and bearing back to the location at which it was activated . |
| 16 | On 22 January 1946 he agreed to the formation of the Central Intelligence Group ( CIG ) , which was to be a small organisation simply collating all forms of foreign intelligence and reporting back to the president through the National Intelligence Authority ( NIA ) . |
| 17 | Lee loosened his grip and sat back on the floor . |
| 18 | He was unable to find work and went back to the North to be near his little boy . |
| 19 | ‘ One spring I left my noviciate and came back to the farm . |
| 20 | With a burgeoning caseload , too few judges , and increasing delays the courts may be tempted to block the further development of the law and to cut back on the advances already made . |
| 21 | Iris , seated at the dressing-table , paused in the act of brushing her short , mouse-brown hair , glanced briefly through the window and turned back to the mirror without comment . |
| 22 | I shut the window and move back into the room . |
| 23 | She said nothing , but instead left the two young people by the window and moved back to the duty manager 's desk . |
| 24 | She put him in the cubicle and went back to the nursing station to phone the physiotherapy department . |
| 25 | The road would be turning east soon , and taking them back to the main road so that they could turn south and walk back to the house . |
| 26 | Held , allowing the appeal , that on its true construction section 9(4) of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 was a paramount provision which limited all other provisions of that Act and related back to the time of the events in respect of which evidence was sought rather than forward to the time when such evidence would be given ; that since all the evidence sought from the retired Crown servant related to matters which had come to his notice in his capacity as an officer or servant of the Crown , section 9(4) applied and the court had no jurisdiction to make the order for his examination ( post , p. 197F–G , H ) . |
| 27 | When he saw Robert , he made what looked like a little , stunted bow and moved back towards the boys on the lawn . |
| 28 | That report , I trust will be adopted by the , er the public services national committee and go back to the C E C for the endorsement and er , watch this space . |
| 29 | Sighing , he came to a halt and leaned back against the hedge they were passing . |
| 30 | Uncle Wafter heaved a sigh and slumped back in the chair , his hand covering his eyes . |