Example sentences of "back as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat on Hee-Haw 's back as the donkey walked on . |
| 2 | If units of good were constantly being cancelled by units of evil , ultimately mankind could be reverted to any point in time past , even to as far back as the beginning of life . |
| 3 | She was forced back as the bark opened and the hardwood below parted like a wound . |
| 4 | Then the darkness came back as the board was replaced . |
| 5 | Carver spoke quickly , nodding towards Galvone 's back as the American stared at the blizzard . |
| 6 | ‘ Any time , ’ Fritz bellowed back as the Lout drove off , tooting his horn derisively . |
| 7 | This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all . |
| 8 | Excavations at Tepe Gawra much nearer the highland sources of metals show that close contacts had already been established with the city states of Sumer as far back as the middle of the fourth millennium B.C. By the time of the Royal Cemetery of Ur ( c.2600–2500 B.C. ) metallurgy and not least gold- and silversmithing had already reached a stage at which many of the fundamental processes had been mastered . |
| 9 | Turn back through the pages of ancient history books on Venice and as far back as the year 1740 you will find tell of a friendly hostelry providing a refuge to weary travellers on this hotel 's site . |
| 10 | The cost of the work , including structural and minor alterations , will come out of council balances on the basis that the money will be paid back as the scheme goes ahead . |
| 11 | I stand well back as the engine accelerates to cutting speed with a roar and a grind and a clatter of the blades . |
| 12 | It was important not to remember how Nuadu had looked in those last moments , defiant and unafraid , his head thrown back as the Robemaker had dragged him forward by the vicious crimson rope-lights . |
| 13 | The wings became a blur and Twoflower was jerked back as the dragon veered and sped off down a side corridor like a gnat-crazed swallow . |
| 14 | ( The fact that the Chinese sign for ‘ father ’ stems from the glyph of a man and a jade adze suggests that a similar notion prevailed in that country as far back as the Shang dynasty . ) |
| 15 | They fought back as the enemy continued to bomb hangars and parked aircraft . |
| 16 | He sat back as the waiter brought coffee . |
| 17 | Adam jerked his leg back as the pain seared up his muscles . |
| 18 | The important points to emphasise from stronger wind stance are that the hands and feet should move back as the wind increases to centre around the balance point . |
| 19 | What he really wants is a business of the inside and outside of his head , in this case of his ‘ alone ’ juxtaposed with the authorial ‘ loneliness and estrangement ’ : a rich relationship , not a flat contradiction or dead end , a relationship which evokes and nurses a distinction established as far back as The Double , between false solitude ( ‘ loneliness and estrangement ’ ) and true solitude which is the obverse of true society and meaningless without it . |
| 20 | The girls were screaming back as the train pulled out and we got away from Khabarovsk without being arrested . |
| 21 | After departure of the 1620 to Sheffield , and depending on the good will of the driver , we managed to achieve many foot plate rides down to Wharf Lane and back as the train had to reverse into the down bay . |
| 22 | Grainne fell back as the creature lunged , and there was a furious yelp followed by a long-drawn-out howl as the iron chains held and jerked the creature back . |
| 23 | London was linked to all parts of the provinces by weekly services as far back as the reign of Charles I and probably earlier . |
| 24 | Fellow-feeling between Athens and Corinth , occasioned by Megara , is traceable as far back as the time of the Cypselid tyrant of Corinth , Periander : called on to arbitrate between Athens and Lesbos over the possession of Sigeion on the Hellespont , he awarded it to Athens . |