Example sentences of "[adv] back [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 it 's set far enough back from the road ,
2 And gives movement to the arms of the scissors and so back through the sieves to the chariot and the moulds .
3 So back to the surgery .
4 He got out of the car and went up and down on his haunches a few times to ease some of the stiffness from his legs , then started to walk the mile or so back to the hotel gates .
5 So back to the back to E.
6 From the Furka summit the road is by way of Hospental and Andermatt and so back to the Gotthard road and to Wassen .
7 But if we go back to square one ( and so back to the roots , back to the foundations , back to the beginning ) , we will find a faith which is solid and secure .
8 So back to the house , screwdriver delivered to surgery , and home yet again .
9 Hewlett-Packard Co shares plunged a week or so back after a warning that its fiscal third quarter earnings to July 31 would be flat , and the news that it posted a net of $191m or 76 cents a share , compared with $192m or 76 cents a share last year , suggests that times have become exceedingly hard in the Unix market this summer , and that Sun Microsystems ' weak fiscal fourth quarter ( UX No 397 ) may not have been solely down to product line transitions .
10 He 's only back from the war two minutes and he 's put the Medical Officer of Health 's nose out of joint .
11 ‘ Why do n't I buy you a coffee ? ’ she suggested , and they began to walk towards the refreshment tent , Lissa 's glance drifting idly back towards the boat .
12 Moreover , land use planning , which in the early 1980s was alleged to be an obstacle to investment , is very much back on the agenda .
13 The idea for this workshop came out of a realisation that Modularity was very much back on the agenda in a wide variety of institutions .
14 Shrugging , he slipped Blake 's identification into his pocket , and tossed the wallet carelessly back into the bushes beside the corpse .
15 A moment later he was running eagerly back across the camp to help the Moi with the skinning of the massive bull he himself had killed , unaided .
16 Sir Gerard 's mind slipped eagerly back into the past .
17 Therefore the total water volume of your aquarium ( 100 litres ) should be turned over a maximum of once every hour , and the water should flow very gently back into the aquarium , avoiding strong currents and surface turbulence .
18 The enclosed cab is covered in lightly-grained black Tolex with no corner pieces , while the front , which angles gently back towards the top , is more rock'n'roll than it looks .
19 The glass was placed gently back on the counter in front of Newman .
20 This will do you no harm at all , although to be brought gently back to the present by the voice of the therapist is a more satisfactory way .
21 Pyjamas and track-suits and Ian Botham 's ridiculous dark spectacles under the Melbourne floodlights seemed mercifully remote until Michael Melluish , MCC 's youthful-looking president , just back from Australia , brought our thoughts gently back to the world scene of the '90s .
22 One advantage of this approach is that you become accustomed to the throttle setting which will allow the model to settle gently back to the ground rather than falling rapidly .
23 The food-finder might instead single out one other nest mate , and then lead it alone back to the food source .
24 She gave a pleased smile at Sabine 's delighted acceptance , and disappeared purposefully back to the farm .
25 Fran gave him a watery smile , then turned her attention pointedly back to the schedule to forestall any further questions , and Fred took the hint .
26 I cram the minute halfway back into the stack of papers in the Quaker Oats box to mark where it came from and pick up the box .
27 But he waited-until the carriage was out of sight and then took her in its wake , halfway back into the centre .
28 Halfway back towards the car I see someone standing there .
29 Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action .
30 Hilda 's home was near the convent , and the tube train seemed to be boring a hole into the past , bearing her inexorably back to the source of her purest happiness and pain .
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