Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This went back to the development of working-class antipathy to Thomas Malthus , who was seen as giving scientific justification to ruling-class opposition to reform , for after all the aim of his famous moral restraint was to convince the working class to postpone marriage as long as possible . |
| 2 | From their Edwardian dominance of golf and tennis , the British slipped back to the second rank . |
| 3 | It is important , however , not to project this split back into the 1470s . |
| 4 | It is important , however , not to project this split back into the 1470s . |
| 5 | A bird , a pigeon perhaps , took startled flight , its wings almost brushing her , and Sabine jumped back against the wall , her heart hammering . |
| 6 | The last EF1-11s based at Saudi arrived back at the Oxfordshire base at the weekend . |
| 7 | The other three looked back at the Shuttle . |
| 8 | All three ran back to the trough prepared to swim for it as the boys had done several times before . |
| 9 | ‘ We all moved back into the drawing-room for coffee , ’ said Henry , ‘ and I performed my arty trick with the cream and the back of a spoon . ’ |
| 10 | I could n't imagine what she expected to tell them if they all came back on the same day . |
| 11 | ‘ We had agreed to wait until they all came back from the States . ’ |
| 12 | With the new Conservative Government in 1979 , Ken Stowe moved from Downing Street to become Permanent Secretary in the Northern Ireland Office — not exactly a rest cure — and in 1981 came back to the DHSS . |
| 13 | We all raced back to the camp , another three miles over tough terrain . |
| 14 | As dusk fell they all piled back into the ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ and , with the track rod end still giving forth its loud protesting wail , drove down to where the torpedo boats were moored . |
| 15 | They all walked back towards the cars . |
| 16 | The couple were deluged with rice and we all walked back to the bride 's parental home afterwards . |
| 17 | We all trooped back to the living room . |
| 18 | Athelstan then blessed the grave and with Watkin darkly hoping the body would stay there , they all trooped back into the church . |
| 19 | Then she took them into Arkwright 's and bought them a bar of chocolate each , which she could ill afford , and they all went back to the Vicarage . |
| 20 | as if the children had n't heard her or were not aware of her presence , they all ran back towards the side of the house , and there they stood as a group , staring at the man with the short legs and the girl with hair that looked almost white , walking towards their mother . |
| 21 | Blackwell Retail Ltd edged back into the black — if only just — in the year to end-August 1992 , after two years of losses . |
| 22 | One feels that his ghost may now rest in peace , happy in the knowledge that this exceptional cliff has now fully realised the potential he first saw back in the mid 1950s . |
| 23 | One disappeared back into the darkness . |
| 24 | Hilary Robarts said impatiently : ‘ But the body , when you first went back for the torch and saw her , you were certain she was dead ? ’ |
| 25 | And Mr Slipshod slithered back into the Town Hall . |
| 26 | ‘ You see , Lewis , ’ began Morse , as the two strolled back to the front of the property , ‘ Kemp had grown tired of Sheila Williams and was starting out on a new conquest — the delectable Lucy Downes . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | John said : ‘ We both dashed back to the skip and retrieved as many records as we could . ’ |
| 29 | They were good men — exemplary young men , it might be said — from families whose ties to the Seven went back to the foundation of the City . |