Example sentences of "[noun] back [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | They 've cut it down and agreed I pay the arrears back at a pound a week . |
| 7 | A spokesman said that Mr Fontana had put his mandate back in the hands of the prime minister , Giuliano Amato . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | All I had to show for it , as I mopped my brow , were sympathetic words of congratulation back in the pavilion — and the club 's Cricketer of the Year award . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Tracing the origins of Chinese civilisation back to the Yellow River ( Huanghe ) , the ‘ cradle ’ of the nation 's culture , a basic contradiction was noted which continued to have a profound effect on the people . |
| 14 | Outside , in the concourse , the bear-leader passed the chain round the bear 's neck , made a noose of it , and led the bear back to the Underground . |
| 15 | The fire now reached his face , blackening his mouth , swelling the tongue , pushing the lips back to the gums . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd like to get an early night , so I 'll just grab a sandwich back at the hotel . ’ |
| 17 | Us poor workers then had the even trickier job of turning the christmas grotto back into a living room ! |
| 18 | Large groups of whales occasionally swim ashore and lie stranded on the beach , unable to move their huge bulks back into the sea . |
| 19 | We have to keep making trips back to the shop because we need bread or milk or something else that we 've forgotten . |
| 20 | I ca n't see much more coming back to the town now . |
| 21 | It was another neighbour , Dandelion , who had now brought the talk back to the Threarah and his indifference to Fiver 's fear . |
| 22 | ‘ If that is the case , we would wish to pass those savings back to the school . ’ |
| 23 | So why should we not pass the benefits of these savings back to the members ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He put the key back in the lock and opened the door , and then ushered Patrick through before him . |
| 26 | We shook hands on the deal and I grabbed the handles and began to push my first cock sparrow back over the bridge towards the Whitechapel Road . |
| 27 | The convoy turns and heads back to the warehouse at Zenesa . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | His merciless tone brought a spark of uncertainty back into the eyes of the Prophet . |
| 30 | He had a marvellous game , did n't waste a pass , won all his tackles , laid on both Martin Foyle 's goals , obviously Martin Foyle back in the side , took his goals so well ; really put himself about and Steve Foster at the back really held things together when erm things could have gone really calamitously . |