Example sentences of "[adj] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They take the arms straight back from the ball with the clubface closed or hooded . |
| 2 | She made it to the staircase , and dashed at random back into the bulk of the house . |
| 3 | Other MPs , however , paid warm tribute to Mr Kinnock 's achievement in bringing Labour back from the point of near-extinction . |
| 4 | He 's out of his mind in case you 've had an accident or something , but he could n't come after you because he was due back at the hospital for a clinic . ’ |
| 5 | I left him to his problems because it was coming up to the time when Emil had said the crew should board the train , and I was due back in the coffee shop . |
| 6 | This action is due back in the High Court in October . |
| 7 | Matilda looked right back into the flashing eyes of this infuriated female giant and said with total calmness , ‘ I have not moved away from my desk , Miss Trunchbull , since the lesson began . |
| 8 | We 're looking right back to the beginning of the universe . |
| 9 | But here I was stuck back on the dole with a Fostex 250 , a guitar , a microphone and a drum machine , so I worked out a way of getting up to about eleven tracks on the Portastudio by constantly bouncing to and fro . |