Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why the concept of the safety case — a case going back to the very essentials of design — is so important . |
| 2 | His origins are obscure , but he seems to have been a German from one of the tribes which were allowed to settle within the Empire , and for which privilege they were liable for military service , a practice going back to the late third century . |
| 3 | Sultan Pakubuono XI of Surakarta comes from a lineage reaching back to the ninth century and , despite Indonesia 's official birth into the modern age with her independence in 1949 , the Sultan , like his ancestors before him , remains the uncrowned " Pope " of pre-Islamic Javanese mysticism . |
| 4 | Chatterjee told this idea to Bikash Sinha , Director of the Calcutta Cyclotron , during a car ride back from the springs in 1984 . |
| 5 | That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house . |
| 6 | That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house . |
| 7 | One of the most common patterns of establishing chains of reference in English and a number of other languages is to mention a participant explicitly in the first instance , for example by name or title , and then use a pronoun to refer back to the same participant in the immediate context . |
| 8 | The ILEA covered the area of the former LCC and thus ensured a continuity going back to the establishment of the London School Board in 1870 ( Maclure 1988 : 110 — 11 ) . |
| 9 | Therefore the Australian move to make whaling more humane was in fact a move to get back to the way it had been after a serious deterioration . |
| 10 | Everyone picked up their travelling bags and in a straggle more than a group walked back towards the passengers ' assembly area . |
| 11 | For them , he said , there was a need to go back to the basics of spelling , grammar , punctuation and arithmetic . |
| 12 | Such testate protozoans have a record extending back to the Cambrian . |
| 13 | Why should Shadrach contemplate for a moment stepping back into the burning fiery furnace ? |
| 14 | Craig hurried up the stairs as the knocking became more insistent and paused for a moment staring back to the hallway . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , at Newbury , our archaeologists have worked with the Trust for Wessex Archaeology and unearthed the remains of flint tools from a site dating back to the Middle Stone Age . |
| 16 | If we picture a vibration as a cycle , that is as equivalent to a rotation round a circle to arrive back at the beginning again , the angular distance travelled in the mathematician 's natural units is 2π . |
| 17 | He felt mercifully isolated and stopped for a while to lean back on the lower bank of fell . |
| 18 | Spectators gasped in awe at the sight of a ball landing back in the same court . |
| 19 | BRADFORD missed a chance to go back to the top of the Stones Bitter Championship after being hammered 28–6 at home by Castleford . |
| 20 | Lofoten was chosen for this first large raid because it offered a chance to hit back at the enemy as well as such economic targets as the destruction of fish oil supplies , which might impair German manufacture of nitro-glycerine and would reduce supplies of vitamin A and B capsules issued to German troops . |
| 21 | Warwick , 38 , and a veteran of 131 Grands Prix , won the world sportscar championship with Peugeot this year and has been itching for a chance to get back in the big time of Formula One . |
| 22 | The latter allows both parties a chance to stand back from the daily routine and take a harder look at overall performance . |
| 23 | This is a unique journey — a chance to step back to the days of sumptuous style , to the days when international travel was lavish and luxurious , when railways meant romance and trains meant tradition . |
| 24 | A goal or two is what everyone needs and at least United have a chance to come back in the cup with the second leg at Torquay next week |
| 25 | Lawrence picked up the handset and radioed into central headquarters , asking for a policeman to go back to the club . |
| 26 | He swallowed quickly , then like a jackal went back to the carcase , gulping down the soft tissue , sucking air and blood through his nostrils , choking with the violence of his ingestion . |
| 27 | The group as a whole goes back to the Devonian ( ? |
| 28 | Maybe it 's a ploy to get back at the people TSB calls ‘ Rich Bastards ’ for having credit cards . |
| 29 | Before answering them , just just spend a minute thinking back over the last week . |
| 30 | Her eyes were drawn by the impenetrable blackness of the alleys between the parade of houses opposite , a clutch of raucous youths tumbling out of a Victorian plastic pub on the corner and a drunk dressed in a greasy jacket sitting on a bench set back from the road . |