Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The erm the views coming back from the consultant were obviously er so follow occasions but not dramatically so . |
| 2 | Quacking and complaining , the ducks hopped back into the water and swam away . |
| 3 | You could see the prisoners looking back at the two bodies in the centre of the carnage ; there was a lot of blood now , spreading in pools . |
| 4 | The guards were changed and the prisoners settled back onto the luggage racks or the floor or the upright wooden seats to sleep . |
| 5 | The survivors scrambled back to the sepoy lines pursued by a vengeful squadron of Sikh cavalry . |
| 6 | Cheeks dripping white , the kids walk back to the car , happy and contented . |
| 7 | Our assistance breaks that barrier while allowing for the funds to come back to the Network when the company steps up production and is earning a return on its investment . |
| 8 | When Kit , informed by his scout that the enemy was present , gave the first order to fire , the soft promise of the light burst into flame ; the vanguard of the islanders fell back from the English muskets . |
| 9 | Clapping their wings the gulls came back from the sea , |
| 10 | The visitors came back into the game with two penalty goals by Graves and could have turned ends 9–9 had he been successful with his third penalty goal on half-time . |
| 11 | The keys came back through the post , without even a thank-you note . |
| 12 | You know that when birds are chicks in nest , they gape , their little mouths open wide , like this , and they , whenever the parents come back to the nest , wi with a worm or something , you see the little chicks , their little mouths wide open , they kind of reach out of the nest and , and , and try to their feeding . |
| 13 | He woke her gently , and as the mists sank back into the river in the sunlight , they made love . |
| 14 | The two poets talked together , the dogs slunk back into the room and fought under the window , the fire flickered . |
| 15 | Tuthanach slingshot whizzed and whirred , and two of the horsemen fell back over the mounts ' haunches . |
| 16 | In fact erm there are now , you could say , too many teachers in the system overall , and that 's why there are new proposals erm both in the colleges and in the universities to cut back on the number of teachers that are being trained . |
| 17 | The colours changed back to the traditional , the ball from white to red , the pads and clothing from kaleidoscopic to white , there were no floodlights , the pitches and outfield were hard and bare and the temperature consistently in the low 30s celsius . |
| 18 | Would you believe it — a false start and the man with the red flag is there to make sure all the eggs go back to the line . |
| 19 | As the officers leaped back to the other ships to spread the plan , Farquhar whispered privately to him , ‘ But if the fighting men are there — ‘ |
| 20 | As the flames died down and the dancers stood back for the family to precede them upstairs into the Long Room , there was a subtle change in the atmosphere . |
| 21 | Partially to silence Jane 's chatter , Patrick began quietly pointing out some of the landmarks , the memories coming back with the names . |
| 22 | When the water drops , the substances drift back along the passageways and soak into the water table . |
| 23 | Since the Greeks looked back on the Mycenaean past as a ‘ Golden Age ’ of gods and heroes , they tended to regard history as a decline from this ideal state and not as an ultimate order of reality . |
| 24 | Raise the toes of the back leg and — without the toes touching back on the floor — stand up using the thigh strength of the front leg . |
| 25 | ‘ But the difference now is that the profits go back into the game and the WRU are to be congratulated on their decisions to tap in to the funds that are available . ’ |
| 26 | Before the patients go back to the ward , they will pat their faces back into place and often ask for reassurance that no-one will be told . |
| 27 | Although the sums remitted back from the US were much lower than expected , and continuing high taxation rates caused a drain on domestic box office receipts , no attempt was made to rein in film budgets . |
| 28 | As the lamps were raised , the shadows chased back towards the top of the dome . |
| 29 | Since a van service , operating at fixed times , transports call-slips to the Annexe in batches , and brings the items requested back to the Main Building in batches , the time taken for straightforward deliveries of outhoused publications depends entirely on the time at which the request is submitted . |
| 30 | resulting in debris from the surroundings washing back into the pond together with water loss from the pond . |