Example sentences of "[vb past] back in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lighted his cigar , puffed furiously , sank back in his seat , as far as it would allow him to , and stared fixedly through the windscreen , already lightly furred with snow . |
| 2 | Jackie sank back in his chair to autograph copies of the book , while Sunnie began circulating among the guests , including Terry Waite , A. N. Wilson and Brent Sadler from CNN . |
| 3 | Jonadab sank back in his chair , unable to believe what he was hearing . |
| 4 | Hari sank back in her chair . |
| 5 | With a sigh , Emily sank back in her seat and closed her eyes , listening to the clip clop of horseshoes ringing against the roadway with a feeling of unreality closing in on her . |
| 6 | She sank back in despair . |
| 7 | Georgina sank back in Ivor 's chair . |
| 8 | And perhaps her friend was right , Lisa thought to herself now as she sank back in her armchair in front of the gas fire , put her feet up at last and took a mouthful of her cocoa . |
| 9 | His face danced in Theda 's sight and she sank back in her chair . |
| 10 | She sank back in her seat . |
| 11 | She hailed it , gave the Chinese driver her address in a monotone , and sank back in the air-conditioned interior , staring at the white skyscrapers below . |
| 12 | Mrs Doran 's lips drew back in a snarl . |
| 13 | Miss Harker drew back in alarm and disgust . |
| 14 | Where they disappeared amid the crazed valleys and jumbled boulders of the dusty scablands , the first explorers drew back in defeat , unable to decipher the wild terrain . |
| 15 | Topaz took a step forwards and in spite of her superior position , Liti drew back in alarm . |
| 16 | Creggan involuntarily drew back in fear and alarm . |
| 17 | She peeped into the hall and drew back in shock . |
| 18 | Generous lips drew back in a smile to reveal small , pearl-like teeth . |
| 19 | Theda drew back in her chair , seeming to shrink within herself . |
| 20 | He touched his torn face and his lips drew back in a snarl . |
| 21 | La Principessa drew back in mock horror . |
| 22 | XVT , which first surfaced back in 1989 , is probably the most mature of what is now a growing bunch of tools offering a single developers toolkit for multiple graphical user interfaces — competitors include Neuron Data 's Open Interface and Open Inc 's Aspect . |
| 23 | But the wee winger from Fife bounced back in a way that says much for the survivalist instincts in the human spirit . |
| 24 | We quickly bounced back in Montserrat , yet another heavenly island . |
| 25 | Trailing 2-0 to the Second Division high-flyers , Wycombe bounced back in the last 20 minutes to force a replay with goals from skipper Glyn Creaser and Steve Thompson , a corporal in the RAF . |
| 26 | She moved out for a while , but carried on cleaning for her ; and then when she married , she moved back in again , and had her first child there . |
| 27 | A point to note about technique is that when you actually go round the mark in strong winds the daggerboard should be retracted first then the mast track moved back in preparation for the reach . |
| 28 | After the liberation they had found their old apartment undamaged , moved back in and set about recreating their old life of searching out young artists , arranging exhibitions for them and building up their own collection of European art . |
| 29 | He seemed to loom over her and she instinctively moved back in her chair with a jerk . |
| 30 | He 's been sleeping in the spare room , you see , but when you turned up last night , he moved back in . |