Example sentences of "[noun pl] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That done , he can busy himself getting the Uruguay round 's warring parties back to the negotiating table . |
| 2 | Sir Patrick must hope this will be enough to bring the parties back to the table , to build on the broad principles agreed last time . |
| 3 | In June 1946 , a month after a popular referendum had voted down the Constituent Assembly 's proposed constitution and sent the parties back to the drawing board , de Gaulle re-entered the political fray . |
| 4 | Sir Patrick Mayhew and Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring stressed that they would continue trying to woo the parties back to the table — but neither gave any specific basis for optimism . |
| 5 | Both Governments regard the current upsurge in loyalist murders as an urgent incentive to get the political parties back around the negotiating table . |
| 6 | My hon. Friend is right that the Labour party would be prepared to overrule parental ballots and to take grant-maintained schools back into the throes of LEA control , which is exactly what parents have voted to escape . |
| 7 | Labour says that although it would hand the opted-out schools back to the authorities that used to control them , it would protect them against discrimination . |
| 8 | Cadfael stepped back to measure again the angle at which the body lay , and the few paces back along the path where the assailant must have been hidden . |
| 9 | I never dared to ask , but I understand now what it is that drives addicts back to the needle time and time again whatever the cost to their health and sanity ; I understand now what the mystics lay claim to when they speak of the peace that passeth all understanding . |
| 10 | The fire now reached his face , blackening his mouth , swelling the tongue , pushing the lips back to the gums . |
| 11 | Among certain groups living in southern Africa the labia can be as long as seven inches and the owners of such equipment have to push the lips back into the vaginal opening in order to get on with their daily tasks . |
| 12 | Large groups of whales occasionally swim ashore and lie stranded on the beach , unable to move their huge bulks back into the sea . |
| 13 | We have to keep making trips back to the shop because we need bread or milk or something else that we 've forgotten . |
| 14 | ‘ If that is the case , we would wish to pass those savings back to the school . ’ |
| 15 | So why should we not pass the benefits of these savings back to the members ? |
| 16 | The court will prepare the appropriate form of reply , account for the fee and hand the made-up summonses back to the plaintiff 's solicitor for posting . |
| 17 | The convoy turns and heads back to the warehouse at Zenesa . |
| 18 | The Revenue Commissioners and senior officials of the Department of Finance also advised against the idea because of the difficulty in implementing the scheme and policing the flow of funds back into the country . |
| 19 | That is , they translate words back into the same modality of bodily experience from which those who spoke the words derived them from within their own bodies . |
| 20 | John Lennon , the leader of Her Majesty 's Loyal Opposition , who was briefly a member of an unsuccessful group called The Quarrymen back in the 1960s , was apparently asked if he wanted to reform to appear on the bill . |
| 21 | ‘ Here we go again , ’ said Bodie , as he put the Capri in gear and slid smoothly out into the traffic flow , taking up a surveillance position four cars back from the battered , blue van . |
| 22 | The two men looked at each other quizzically , then Duncan handed the pictures back to the policeman and stood up . |
| 23 | Lie back down again , placing your legs back on the floor , knees bent . |
| 24 | He moved away from her and swung his legs back over the side of the bed . |
| 25 | A by pass for Newhnam seems unlikely , residents are hoping that time saved by the new second crossing might entice drivers back onto the motorway . |
| 26 | This can be achieved by making contributions in the year of change and in the following two years , in the latter case by relating premiums back to the year of change . |
| 27 | It was done in fact by a brilliant military er tactic er and indeed the Americans succeeded in throwing the North Koreans back over the Yalob the river Yalob So up to that point limited force had been used to achieve a political objective , the objective was to s s to erm contain communism wherever communism looked like spilling over into other countries , non-communist countries . |
| 28 | If Jitters did n't have a wife and kids back in the old country — which , come to think of it , he probably did n't these days — he might just have dragged Fat Old Stinky Juanita up before the padre and tied the old knot . |
| 29 | To listen to ‘ a load of shit on shehadat ’ , as Cave called it , was part of the side-business of negotiating ; the Americans would do their best to try to steer their interlocutors back to the subjects at hand . |
| 30 | in waves back to the sky |