Example sentences of "back [prep] [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been with some degree of cautiousness and a heightened sense of responsibility that Gould once more stocked up on shot , caps , and powder on his way back through Launceston for the journey home . |
| 2 | The sources of the Bonheur range from the decorative ‘ cloisonnist ’ aspect of Gauguin 's painting and back through Ingres to the bacchanals of the Renaissance . |
| 3 | Newson got a goal back for Bournemouth near the end but it was Swindon 's game by then . |
| 4 | The smell of the smoke drifted back towards Cassie across the garden . |
| 5 | One of the game 's great half backs , manager Jarlath Cloonan gambled by playing him centre half back against Tipperary in the All Ireland semi-final . |
| 6 | One of the game 's great half backs , manager Jarlath Cloonan gambled by playing him centre half back against Tipperary in the All Ireland semi-final . |
| 7 | ‘ I walked back along Piccadilly towards the theatre for the evening show . |
| 8 | He had to get up early to go on local radio , which meant another journey back into Edinburgh in the morning . |
| 9 | If it fails to contain a panacea we will be back into Europe with the begging bowl . |
| 10 | Towards nightfall most of the refugees went back into Myitkyina for the night , but the remaining convalescents and I were too tired to do this , so we stayed on the airfield . |
| 11 | The Hungarian king was killed in the battle , and Hunyadi fled back into Hungary with the remnant of his army . |
| 12 | Rufus , driving back from London with the hashish his dealer swore was genuine Indian charas and a package of best Colombian , picked her off the street — ‘ a piece of property that is found ownerless ’ . |
| 13 | Althusser elaborates his thesis that Marxism is not a historicism at some length , presenting a critique of the historicist and humanist traditions which he takes back from Sartre to the beginning of the century , even to the Russian Revolution itself , and in which he also includes the ‘ absolute historicism ’ of Gramsci and the Frankfurt School . |
| 14 | All those Tibetans who come back from India in the spring laden down with watches , silver jewellery , radios — where do you think they get their money from ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We signed him and when he came back from Brazil at the beginning of the next season , he explained that he had changed his name , dropped the da Silva . |
| 16 | For the first time Selene , brought back from Hampstead for the funeral , spoke up . |
| 17 | got something back from Intercity on the P S work where they 're wa wishing us to predict to certain date what we 're gon na be spending over the next six months . |
| 18 | ‘ One year , ’ he said , when he was sure of my attention , ‘ the shepherds found a tār when they were crossing the high ridge on their way back from Aula in the spring . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll be back from Poltown by the time you get back from Linby , so I 'll go to the bus-stop to meet you , ’ Angela promised . |
| 20 | She was flown back from Zimbabwe at the weekend for treatment at Newcastle 's Royal Victoria Infirmary . |
| 21 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 22 | When he came back from Livorno in the late summer of 1913 he made straight for the Café Rotonde , to be greeted rapturously by artists and models on the terrace . |
| 23 | If the Nepalese court decides that there is no case against the two men , they could be back in Britain by the end of the week . |
| 24 | Back in Moscow after the grinding 40th anniversary celebrations in East Berlin , President Gorbachev made plain on Soviet television that Erich Honecker 's Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( SED ) could sink or learn to swim . |
| 25 | But I expect to be back in Scotland within the next couple of weeks , so we can discuss whatever needs to be discussed then . |
| 26 | Back in London in the Sylheti community , having a young , good-looking wife from a comparatively high class is in turn a status symbol . |
| 27 | Captain Lawton and his men seem to have had a fairly trouble-free time of it , because all 15 of them were duly discharged back in London after the seven-month voyage . |
| 28 | Industrial Action and we 're only three days back in January before the Prelims , so as far as I can see that is St Agnes 's Eve out the window . |
| 29 | And because it was his territory , Trent retained hope , despite his fear of Louis ; as he had retained hope back in Ireland under the inspection of the leader of the terrorist unit that he had infiltrated . |
| 30 | Back in Johannesburg after the war , Herbert began to practise law in partnership with one of his elder brothers , James , but later went off to Europe for a year to study law in Vienna . |