Example sentences of "[det] [noun] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Branson , paying tax was ‘ a waste of money ’ when you could plough that money back into the company . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The rear door of the car opened and my father was observed to be standing there , a few steps back from the vehicle , gazing steadily into the interior . |
| 4 | You can try to deny it if you like , but it wo n't get you very far when I play this tape back to the Press ! ’ |
| 5 | Chairman Reacher , who admitted last weekend that he had already started contemplating life without Brian , added : ‘ We are going to get this club back on the rails and climb up the Premier League . |
| 6 | ‘ Take this girl back to the castle , ’ he ordered tightly . |
| 7 | Selling shares for gain should not be confused with giving part of your family business to the next generation , which was made easier a few years back under the inheritance tax rules . |
| 8 | Looking at the relaxed poses in our photographs , it will come as no surprise to learn that Clarissa modelled for a few years back in the 60s . |
| 9 | The vineyards of Bisseuil are set some distance back from the village and grow at a height of about 160 metres on the south-east-facing slopes of Mont Aigu , which forms the eastern side of the Val d'Or in which Avenay is located . |
| 10 | Prior learning often refers to achievements acquired directly from life experience and can refer to achievements from some distance back in the past . |
| 11 | Following the disappointment of April 's 2-2 home draw with unfancied Lithuania , when the Irish surrendered a 2-0 lead , this victory will put some colour back into the cheeks of Billy Bingham 's boys . |
| 12 | " I 'd better ask Cowslip what we 're supposed to do about taking some of this stuff back to the warren . " |
| 13 | Er we 're getting a few bodies back into the team emptying the treatment room and and things are looking a lot better . |
| 14 | He noticed a dark bulk lying a few yards back along the causeway . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , it wo n't matter for the few yards back to the cottage … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Accordin' to our hero , there 's another road back to the coast by way of Cajabamba and Huamachuco . |
| 17 | Eugénie was able to bring this message back to the Tuileries where it must have pleased the Emperor to know that the Queen was sympathetic to France 's difficulties . |
| 18 | To that extent the Football Association were justified in taking this fixture back to the Sheffield stadium only three years after 95 Liverpool supporters died there . |
| 19 | The surging crowd had carried me some rows back from the front . |
| 20 | This path back to the Hall goes near my home , Pen House . |
| 21 | When the programs are transferred onto a new PC , an unpacker or unzipper puts all this information back into the program file so that it can be used by the PC . |
| 22 | There should be a mechanism for feeding this information back to the designers so that the succeeding system designs will avoid these problems . |
| 23 | Part of the public relations function is to feed this information back to the company . |
| 24 | Indeed , the slope was no more than gentle for some way back along the line by which they had come ; but he had been preoccupied with the idea of danger in the open and had not noticed the change . |
| 25 | This interpretation was already being undermined in the 1830s as new evidence showed that the geographical provinces did indeed extend some way back into the past . |
| 26 | Some date back to the 13th century , and The Sign of the Angel hotel was built in 1480 for a wool merchant . |
| 27 | Should not the Chancellor hang his head in shame and resign now , and let the Labour party get on with bringing this country back to the richness that it deserves ? |
| 28 | It was common practice for families to attend evening service and we sat in the same pew each week , about half way back in the north aisle . |
| 29 | By a supreme effort I managed to feed a few inches back into the vaginal opening but as soon as I relaxed it popped quietly out again . |
| 30 | They suggest that warnings by Mr Major that a vote for the Liberal Democrats could let Labour into Downing Street by the ‘ back door ’ may have frightened some waverers back into the Tory fold . |