Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We have therefore decided to give members until 31 March 1993 to get back to us with their comments in the hope of achieving the most desirable end result .
2 But , on the stroke of midnight , Prince Charming turned back into a rat . ’
3 It is pointless.and harmful to hark back to how things used to be , although the conflict of loyalties may be hard to handle .
4 Chapter 10 comes back from Utopia — and I am all for Utopia — to the question of ‘ How is it to be done ? ’
5 You then follow Hunter 's Path , swinging uphill above the gorge , then crossing Piddledown Common to head back to the village .
6 The Local Government and Housing Act 1989 gave back to the Secretary of State for the Environment the power to make determinations excluding certain elderly persons ' dwellings from the Right to Buy .
7 FitzAlan half glanced back over his shoulder .
8 A perfect day 's drive would be a visit to the islands on Lake Constance , including Mainau , which is famous for its tropical and exotic plants first planted back in 1827 .
9 And Mr Slipshod slithered back into the Town Hall .
10 Established players Nigel Smith , David Jarrold , Pat Watford , Andy Cooper and Graham Arnold all come back into contention .
11 The Isle of Wight SSD sees care management as a progression of practice rather than management , with care managers able to transfer back into social work posts .
12 Last year was abysmal , we conceeded so many goals because the defence could n't cope most notable occasion was Man City away where 2 of their 4 goals came from shite defending ie defenders unable to pass back to the goalie who would then pick it up .
13 The pools is how Littlewoods first began back in 1923 when John Moores , a working class lad from Manchester , made his first million with a winning blend of football and gambling .
14 A FRESH wave of confidence swept through the market yesterday and boosted the FT-SE 100 Index back through the psychological 2,700 level .
15 Figure 3.3 shows how the volume-temperature plots of a gas all extrapolate back to zero volume at 0 K.
16 Tonight 's headlines ; Oxford United come back in remarkable fashion from Molyneux , trailing by three goals to nil after twenty four minutes and with four minutes remaining to go , United scored twice to equalise .
17 K1 2005 stands at Mallaig ready to run back to Fort William with the return Lochaber train in very wet conditions .
18 Convoys of reinforcements intermingled with men from the depots of Verdun , civilian refugees and shattered regiments all streaming back to the rear .
19 The question mark at the end of line 4 refers back to ‘ with whom ? ’ 'No vicissitude can find' is therefore a statement of fact , implying a pagan , not a Christian attitude .
20 These physicists have systematically probed one particular puzzle of quantum mechanics , a question that Albert Einstein and colleagues Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen first raised back in 1935 .
21 London Irish fought back with plucky resolve , a well taken high pass put winger , Mike Corcoran through .
22 For women keen to get back into the workplace or further education , a Women Returners course starts on Tuesday , September 14 , from 10.30am-12.30pm .
23 After consultations with other Western governments the United States adminstration on April 24 drew back from any punitive measures against the Soviet Union over its blockade of Lithuania ( officials having previously hinted at possible limited economic sanctions ) , when President Bush gave a clear indication at a press conference that the administration considered Gorbachev 's political survival and good Soviet-US relations to be more important than Lithuanian independence , explaining : " I am concerned that we do not inadvertently compel the Soviet Union to do something that would set back the whole process of freedom around the world . "
24 I had hoped to purchase high-ratio Salisbury diffs for a Series III to take back to Australia .
25 Then , while Henry Ii headed back to Anjou , Richard and Alfonso of Aragon besieged Bertrand de Born in Hautefort .
26 But Class 1 looked back at him listlessly .
27 He pulls away , past me , like a shark impatient to get back into the swim of things .
28 But one player ready to head back to Wimbledon is Alan Cork , 32 , one of their original Crazy Gang .
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