Example sentences of "[noun] back [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've cut it down and agreed I pay the arrears back at a pound a week . |
| 2 | Us poor workers then had the even trickier job of turning the christmas grotto back into a living room ! |
| 3 | ‘ Wonderful weather , Lady Deverill ! ’ the young man called to his victim as he cantered through the iron gates and reined his horse back to a walk . |
| 4 | Erm the managing director in front of Mr erm said to me , It wo n't affect your wages but what we will ask is that you give the company car back until a period of time that your wife passes a test in which case it can be given to your wife as indeed managerial status Mr . |
| 5 | The execution time of a RISC cycle is given by the time it takes to read a register , perform an ALU operation , and store the result back into a register . |
| 6 | For his best , he chooses the buying back of a company at a bargain price . |
| 7 | This story took my mind back to a survey on driving that was published a while ago on the differences between men and women behind the wheel . |
| 8 | Fig 85 Maui Mayer from Hawaii performing a cut back in a World Cup wave riding event . |
| 9 | Endill had been dragging an ironing-board back from a room where everything was half buried in the floor when , turning a corner , he bumped into a tall thin man who had appeared from nowhere . |
| 10 | ‘ Yeah , well , just tell them they got two more days and then they get their boy back in a bag . |
| 11 | The next few years were difficult for them all , but when Eb came home , gassed and disabled , he had done his best to put the shop back on a business footing — going in every day to work behind the counter , keeping the books , and not letting customers run up bills they could n't pay . |
| 12 | The publication by Lobachevsky in 1829 of a consistent ( non-Euclidean ) geometry , in which Euclid 's parallel postulate is denied , should perhaps have turned mathematicians ' attention back to a study of axioms , especially as it had long been appreciated that Euclid 's use of the axiomatic method was , to say the least , inconsistent ( [ 106 ] contains stronger views . ) |
| 13 | What they each gained separately was a greater individual confidence and capacity for self-determination as women , and each of them fed that confidence back into a variety of struggles to change the position of women , and in the case of the majority of women in that particular group , to a struggle for some kind of socialism . |
| 14 | Terry B says it 's great to be back and he 's heard there 's a race for the over fifties which he may have a go at … he 's getting itchy feet and will soon be back riding for trainers … he 's also got his old job back as a steward at Worcester races and his public still love him |
| 15 | As to a scoop , just hold the article back for a while and I think you 'll have one . |
| 16 | As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster . |
| 17 | we used the situation of taking faulty goods back to a shop |
| 18 | It was murmured throatily against the swell of her breasts , before his lips found the hard jut of her nipples and she dropped her head back with a gasp of pure delight . |
| 19 | ‘ We 're not going to succumb , Bernard , ’ she would say if he made a move towards her , and she 'd toss her head back in a swift , moving , golden curtain . |
| 20 | And it was as if Boy was now suddenly the drowning one , and O was the lifeguard ; O slapped him twice around the face , pulled his head back by a handful of hair and placed his mouth over Boy 's before he had time to speak , and kissed him right there in the doorway of The Bar . |
| 21 | She laid her head back against a cushion , breathing in deeply and regularly to relax the tension in the back of her neck , but it was no use . |
| 22 | Stok stood up and put his hands on the small of his back and threw his head back like a man in pain . |
| 23 | Fireworks back with a bang |
| 24 | Getting the ball back within a degree of percentage and be able to get yourself back into position er you 've got to be very careful with that . |
| 25 | Still to come : A look at Lester Piggott 's first day back as a jockey , plus the rest of the day 's sports news . |
| 26 | Xokonoshetl Gomorro gets his possessions back after a night in police cells . |
| 27 | Canvassers who normally get the forms back after a maximum of four visits to any household are now having to return seven or more times before the people hand back the completed form . |
| 28 | Luke palmed his hair back with a gesture of resignation , and once again Merrill softened towards him . |
| 29 | To create a Chignon , tie your hair back with a band and put the Flexi Comb around the ponytail . |
| 30 | From observing Star Eye , he thought she 'd modelled herself on Cabochon : she even sat like him and had started scraping her hair back into a ponytail , even though it was n't really long enough yet . |