Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In the 5 years with Maxwell junior at the helm , the club has dropped back into the second division and shows debts of up to £4.5 million .
2 ‘ Two other factors will make us a better team this season — Keith Finlay has come back to the club from North Fermanagh and that has stiffened our batting while Tony Johnson from Barbados is a superb all rounder . ’
3 He has come back with a bang , and the film of Jurassic Park opens in July , which will obviously help his sales .
4 probably , a bar with nuts and raisins called raisin natural bar I 'm sorry about loo loosing the keys mum , mum tt the noise has gone the noise has come back by the way
5 THE discos and snooker halls group , European Leisure , currently embroiled in a Serious Fraud Office investigation , has moved back into the black in its first half-year to 31 December .
6 Anyone who has visited a newspaper office in the last five years with expectations from cinematic memories of Citizen Kane or who has struggled back from the newsagent on a Sunday morning with a sample of what is laughably offered as a ‘ leisurely read ’ will know that much has changed .
7 ‘ Yup , ’ she 'd said , shifting down to fourth as a car she 'd been waiting to pass pulled back into the slow lane .
8 In her latest novel , Jazz , Toni Morrison has dipped back into a time before cross-over , when African-American music was all-black , in her quest for a uniquely black literary language .
9 I begin by reminding hon. Members of the reforms that the Minister has brought back to the House .
10 Television came in the wake of other consumer durables : a vacuum cleaner and a boiler for the washing — once used to cook a lobster my father has brought back from the Highlands where he 's been on a spell of painting stations that will be closed by the Beeching plan a decade later .
11 In 1856 he exhibits on his lawn a stuffed crocodile he has brought back from the East : enabling it to bask in the sun again for the first time in 3,000 years .
12 Ignoring this , the present Government has cut back on the already poorly resourced Youth Training and Employment Training programme .
13 The moon has stepped back like an artist gazing amazed at a work
14 Mark Frost has gone back as a bowler , though of course he could come again .
15 Fred Couples , the Americans ' man of the season so far but who did not play last week , has gone back to the top amid a wholesale reshuffle .
16 Hypnotists working for the police ask an individual , most commonly a witness or a victim , to imagine that he has gone back to the time of the crime .
17 ‘ Why , Rohan has gone back to the Haut-Médoc .
18 Thank you very much I think er councillor said that in er Tory erm motions goes against er Conservative er national policy but what it does identify is a very worrying sub text to the Tory policies of the moment because w means testing for hou for housing welfare has gone back to the worst aspects of the nineteen thirties politics basically .
19 The Government has gone back to the Appeal COurt tonight in a second attempt to stop Central Television screening the first filmed interview with mass murderer Dennis Nilsen .
20 The actor who played Dirty Den in Eastenders has gone back to the prison where he was once an inmate .
21 Now it has gone back towards the middle and as of this moment , drug abuse worldwide is worse than ever . ’
22 OR when a gate has swung back on a horse rapping its knees or trapping its foot .
23 Hewlett-Packard Co has swung back on the offensive in the US with a predatory enhanced workstation trade-in programme , which it says accepts the broadest range of workstations , personal computers and X terminals in part exchange for new Precision Architecture RISC workstations and X stations .
24 The fact that she has fought back to the level that she has now attained is a tribute to the loving care , encouragement and inspiration given her by her parents .
25 Osaka has fought back with a splurge of infrastructure projects , most notably a new international airport perched upon a man-made island .
26 THE 18-month-old Young Vic Youth Theatre has fought back from the threat of funds-starved closure to launch new season with Brecht and Weill 's The Threepenny Opera .
27 A MOTHER who tragically lost two daughters in separate accidents last night told how her third daughter has fought back from the brink of death .
28 HARMONY Leisure , the pubs and hotels group where former GrandMet chairman Sir Stanley Grinstead is to join the board , has bounced back into the black .
29 A garden tractor company has bounced back from the brink of bankruptcy to become a market leader … despite the recession .
30 Orders came in , and that helped the warehouse people unpack the boxes and despatch them ; the information got fed back to the editor to tell him what the sales were , and it was a continuous process and all of the people tended to see the computer as working very much for them , rather than for the other department next door .
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