Example sentences of "[vb pp] back [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has come back a wiser player and he will add drive to the team . ’ |
| 2 | They 'd lost their way a little , they 've come back a little and they 're going to win this Anglo-Italian match . |
| 3 | She had emigrated with half her family to England when a baby , but they had all come back the night an auntie 's house in Derry had been seen on TV news , with the sofa flying from an upstairs window and loyalist thugs pouring petrol on the geraniums . |
| 4 | She had lifted back the veil and looked stunningly beautiful . |
| 5 | His shirt is frayed at the sleeves where he has rolled back the cuffs , his skin shows brown down the open front , there are small dark hairs , a glistening drop of sweat . |
| 6 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 7 | Oh he 's dropped back a bit . |
| 8 | LUCY SOUTTER , the 22-year-old former champion who nearly quit the game after a long illness , unexpectedly won back the British national title at Newcastle yesterday when she beat Suzanne Horner 9-3 , 9-5 , 9-3 in a final lasting less than 45 minutes . |
| 9 | A TOP fashion designer has won back the son she was accused of stealing . |
| 10 | The winner got home by two and a half lengths , but two Irish trained fillies pegged back the formidable Arab challenge of English trained fillies . |
| 11 | Yet , before , on their secret dates , Rab had been most punctual — a big smile and hug for her — while she , to have him more keen , had hung back a little late . |
| 12 | Finally , the operator pulled out a small metal box from a rack underneath his desk , deftly flipped back the lid and plugged in the connection . |
| 13 | Men do prefer blondes , she thought , and unconsciously pushed back a strand of her own urchin-cut black hair . |
| 14 | She took a grip on herself , physically pushed back the dark , claustrophobic horror at the point of drowning . |
| 15 | It was now light , the lamps on the gangway giving murky yellow pools that barely pushed back the inky blackness of a starless night . |
| 16 | It did not tell him how many French had crossed the frontier , nor whether blücher was concentrating his army ; all it told him was that a French force had pushed back the Prussian outposts . |
| 17 | ICL Plc has pushed back the timeframe for its stock market flotation , saying that it will most likely be towards the back end of the two to five year target it set when Fujitsu Ltd took its 80% stake . |
| 18 | In just a few days he had pushed back the horizons of her world far out of sight . |
| 19 | I thought of him now — he was called Mike Jarvis and he was a great skateboarder — as the congregation swept up the steps , past me and Mrs Danby , and Pike triumphantly pushed back the curtain to reveal the inner sanctum of the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 20 | But it was still unreal when he reached out and , bending over her , gently pushed back the wisps of hair that had loosened from beneath her headband . |
| 21 | They 've pushed back the boundaries which were limiting the business . |
| 22 | Upwind , however , the daggerboard is still kept in the down position , though in extreme conditions it needs to be moved back a few centimetres . |
| 23 | Rose had moved back a little to stand in front of one of the shop windows , scanning the crowd with knowing eyes . |
| 24 | Now he was into jazz because he 'd heard that the Yuppies had hijacked it after Clint Eastwood 's film on Charlie Parker , and had moved back a decade to the late ‘ forties . |
| 25 | ‘ The matter has not been discussed formally by our general committee but our fixtures committee has talked about the possible advantages of the Five Nations championship being moved back a bit . ’ |
| 26 | The manager who took Sunderland to Wembley six months ago knows that he 's still not out of the woods , but he has turned back the clock in a bid to stay in business . |
| 27 | After a moment , when her head had settled , muddily , Tabitha slowly turned back the duvet . |
| 28 | And when Parliament eventually turned back the tide of opposition to Eyre and voted financial support to the former Governor , it was poetically appropriate that those who had been most vocal in their support for the Garotter 's Act — such as Mr Adderley and the rampant Colonel North — should be in the thick of it again , shouting their praise for Eyre 's loyalty to the Crown and his firm action that had saved a colony . |
| 29 | Again this hope seems set against the tides of history , but again we can not be certain that a positive policy of Empire and tariffs could not have turned back the tide in 1902 or 1912 . |
| 30 | The covers of the bed had been drawn back a little , the action of an hotel , to show the dean pillowcases and the white sheet . |