Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burned by their experience of the volatility of the capital markets , many leading banks such as Bank of America and Lloyds are pulling back from the periphery of their systems to defend their home bases . |
| 2 | Now that a reaction is setting in , Mr Gorbachev is leaning back towards the conservatives to keep his balance . |
| 3 | RINGO Starr is going back on the road , but unlike his fellow former Beatle , George Harrison , his performances will have nothing to do with Transcendental Meditation , writes James Delingpole , Arts Correspondent . |
| 4 | In April each of the canes seen protruding starkly from the ground in February is cut back to the second bud and stakes are planted for their support . |
| 5 | Norbert was sent back into the real world , but within weeks he had registered as a disabled person and returned to the hospital . |
| 6 | Frank was lying back on the pillows with his eyes closed . |
| 7 | Simon was coming back along the waterline with Ben trotting at his heels . |
| 8 | In September 1990 W. was referred back to the clinic which had seen her three years before and began sessions with a clinical psychologist . |
| 9 | The fastest way to talk to Grosvenor Square was to get back to the third floor . |
| 10 | Beattie was taken back to the cell and shortly afterwards brought down to the main police office where the other men who had been arrested were being assembled . |
| 11 | FitzAlan was leaning back against the wall , seemingly at ease , but his eyes were narrowed and the muscles of the forearm braced over his raised knee were rigid . |
| 12 | Heinrich and Martha were walking back to the Reach hand in hand . |
| 13 | He told them about Mahmoud being put back on the case . |
| 14 | You thought that might lie behind Mahmoud being brought back into the Zoser case . |
| 15 | Joey Beauchamp and Jim Magilton … there 's speculation that Brian Horton is coming back to the Manor with his Manchester City cheque book let's ask him |
| 16 | The tree-branches creaked and the dry leaves rattled , for Baba Yaga was flying back over the trees in her pestle and mortar . |
| 17 | Some may still remember Christmas 1929 , when a whale washed ashore on rocks at Looe was cast back into the sea by the townsfolk . |
| 18 | Abraham has passed the test , Isaac is saved , and the purposes of God are brought back from the edge of the abyss . |
| 19 | KEVIN McGARRITY is going back to the British Vauxhall Lotus championship — and back to the team he quit midway through last season . |
| 20 | In his post-election Cabinet reshuffle Sandys was sent back to the Ministry of Supply to use his undoubted energies to create the much needed Ministry of Aviation . |
| 21 | Menzies was crouching back on the bench , his legs braced , like a cornered hare frozen in a last effort to baffle the enemy . |
| 22 | The stricken David Lawrence is carried back to the dressing-room . |
| 23 | As Crilly is taken back into the cells , he catches my eyes . |
| 24 | Peter was lying back on the sofa , doing nothing in particular . |
| 25 | And now the Trunchbull was leaning back against the weight of the whirling girl and pivoting expertly on her toes , spinning round and round , and soon Amanda Thripp was travelling so fast she became a blur , and suddenly , with a mighty grunt , the Trunchbull let go of the pigtails and Amanda went sailing like a rocket right over the wire fence of the playground and high up into the sky . |
| 26 | ‘ As I said before we left for Argentina , Sella , Mesnel and Lafond were welcomed back to the squad . |
| 27 | Cheryl 's three words were hardly finished before Angela was racing back to the farmhouse shouting at the top of her voice . |
| 28 | He was forced to pack up his career as Charlton 's left back at the age of 20 . |
| 29 | Like it or not , Louisa Agnew was driven back upon the Hall . |
| 30 | They had got into conversation one evening when Ianthe was coming back from the library where she worked , and it had reassured her — coming as a stranger to this rather doubtful neighbourhood — to meet somebody whom her mother would have described as a ‘ gentlewoman ’ . |