Example sentences of "back [prep] a [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 | Mark Frost has gone back as a bowler , though of course he could come again . |
| 9 | Of course that is n't really allowed , but once you 've got back as a ghost , there 's not much anybody can do to stop you . |
| 10 | Come back as a ghost — drive me mad — I do n't care ! |
| 11 | She came back as a ghost . ’ |
| 12 | No no he comes back as a ghost just to I think he comes back |
| 13 | A Prime Minister , a Prime Minister second one goes I wan na go back thousand , thousand times better so erm , sends him back as a queen . |
| 14 | Obviously what you say to another person and the way you say it will have an effect on what they say back as a response . |
| 15 | I do n't personally believe in reincarnation , but knowing my luck I 'd either come back as a pair of Ian 's boxer shorts or an amoeba . |
| 16 | A brief greatness was now conferred on the place , when the Popes found it an island refuge in their struggle against the Empire : Count Pierre of Melgueil bestowed the county and bishopric on SS Peter and Paul and Pop Gregory VII in 1085 , Pope Urban II graciously granted it back as a fief for a mere annual ounce of gold , and in 1096 , on a visit , astonishingly declared the church ‘ second after that of Rome ’ , with arms of the two |
| 17 | Since 1213 when King John tactically surrendered the kingdom to Pope Innocent III and received it back as a fief held of the papacy , the English crown had owed the pope an annual tribute of a thousand marks ( £666 6/ 8d ) . |
| 18 | And he sends him back as a man . |
| 19 | They brought him back as a Caretaker to General Manager and really I did n't see eye to eye with him . |
| 20 | They returned to the warehouse and stood back as a boy carrying a sheet of glass under his arm came down the stairs . |
| 21 | He was involved in everything , opening the innings , coming back as a runner for Graham Gooch , bowling a match winning spell , holding a vital catch and finally ending the game with a calm run out . |
| 22 | They 're obliged to charge us a certain amount for access , but they 're talking about giving us that money back as a grant . |
| 23 | Clearly , if I speak from my critical parent state too often , patronising you and moralising at you , directing you as a child , and you retaliate in a parent state and attempt to direct me back as a child , we 've got a ‘ crossed transaction ’ . |
| 24 | She was on the very first Dreamflight in 1987 as a leukaemia sufferer and was now back as a helper , having been given the all-clear this year . |
| 25 | There were three women and they died at the same time so God goes cos you do n't all three of you do n't so , erm , the first one goes : I wan na go back to Earth thousand times are better so she goes back as a President , right ? |
| 26 | when she went back as a teacher . |
| 27 | But I came back as a Gnome . |
| 28 | Sometimes you come back as a beetle and sometimes a man . |
| 29 | Eventually she got up , removed the bung once more with a gloved hand , and stepped back as a tongue of yellow flame licked out at her . |
| 30 | Still to come : A look at Lester Piggott 's first day back as a jockey , plus the rest of the day 's sports news . |