Example sentences of "back [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , if you take the back off a watch you wo n't find 15 individual flip-flops inside . |
| 2 | Maybe I 've strayed into another world and I 'll get back through a looking-glass . |
| 3 | Resisting stubbornly , the Highland units were pushed back through a 180° arc for nearly two miles [ 3.2 km ] and driven across the River Allan , while the Jacobite right forced Argyll 's left to retreat towards Stirling . |
| 4 | To look back through a history of censorship in libraries is an instructive and fascinating experience ( and there is no better way than through Thompson 's Censorship in public libraries in the United Kingdom during the Twentieth Century ) . |
| 5 | He parked the car a street away and walked back through a gauntlet of whispers and stony smiles . |
| 6 | She flicked back through a number of the loose-leaf pages , quickly at first and then slowing as the date that she was seeking came closer . |
| 7 | You ca n't save calculations , but you can track back through a chain of arithmetic , alter figures , and see the alterations reflected in the final sum . |
| 8 | Rachel watched him as he tramped back through the fruit trees towards the house . |
| 9 | As Adam looked back through the split in the gates , he saw Curly Top , saw the evil hatred in his eyes . |
| 10 | There was no one at the pumping station in the Old Town , so the two of them headed back through the dockside streets to find out what was happening . |
| 11 | The outer side of the algal ridge is often interrupted by a system of spurs and grooves , the latter running back through the ridge as a series of surge channels , which may even become roofed over in places by the development of Porolithon from their sides . |
| 12 | We turned back through the village again and up to Claro . |
| 13 | Rutherford said that he would give him a 20-minute start , then drive back through the village and collect him . |
| 14 | Push the crate left to hit the switch , go down , collect the star and fly up , left and then down , go left , collect the star , fly straight right , then fly up , land on one of the platforms on the side of the wall , jump up and go right on the chair-lifts , go down , right through the wall , climb up the blocks , push the crate down two platforms and go back through the wall , go left , down , right and jump onto the boat , go right , up and left into the tent to complete the game . |
| 15 | Their fingers interlocked and tightened , and when he pulled her hand back through the wall , she made no effort to resist him . |
| 16 | Composer also has a MIDI facility to play back through the PC speaker . |
| 17 | This was a digitally-recorded album , so you 're just playing into a microphone and what you 're getting back through the headphones tends to be a little dry and sad . |
| 18 | Bert shuffled back through the door into the boarded off section of the garage , followed by Yanto , who was frustrated by the old man 's slowness . |
| 19 | Entitled ‘ Potential human carcinogens : methods for identification and characterisation ’ , it was promptly kicked back through the door by several well-respected cancer specialists who were asked to review it . |
| 20 | He would expect his visitor to come back through the door to the kitchen . |
| 21 | The transaction seems to embarrass him because he insists on carrying it out in the corridor out of sight of his secretary , whose fluffy blue feet have just slipped and slid back through the door of his office . |
| 22 | I threw myself back through the door , falling to the ground . |
| 23 | The staircase was filled with the sounds of bellowing , screaming and thrashing shadows as Duvall burst back through the door after Barbara . |
| 24 | The exit to the roof was on the other side of floor 5 so Ralph went back through the door into the large room . |
| 25 | She had grabbed his hand and his cane firmly in her hands and was trying to pull him back through the water . |
| 26 | We walk back through the park and disperse : tonight they 're going to a party , it 's Paul from The Soup Dragons ’ birthday . |
| 27 | Walking back through the park , and carefully holding the children 's hands as they crossed the busy road , Laura found it almost impossible to ignore her friend 's sly suggestion . |
| 28 | Andy gives a small smile , takes the empty glass from her and heads back through the crowds to the kitchen . |
| 29 | At the end of the utterance HARPY traces the optimal path back through the tree . |
| 30 | He threw her a final black look and proceeded to storm past her , then paused at the edge of the path that led back through the gardens . |