Example sentences of "[vb pp] back at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lightweight inexpensive fabrics like cheesecloth and muslin can be shirred and hung between rods , wires or traverse poles attached below the ceiling and above the skirting or baseboards , and either caught back at doors and windows or fixed around them ( with rods or wires attached to the top of the frames ) . |
| 2 | Anna had come into the world feet first and it took all the experience of Mrs Finklestein and the skill of the young Dr Arlen , who had come back at once with Denis , to turn the baby round without strangling the little thing with its own cord . |
| 3 | He had seen his earliest pupils , as had my father , either not come back at all , or come back broken men . |
| 4 | So do n't come back at me with any crap about my specific orders . |
| 5 | would have come back at M S three . |
| 6 | He 'd have come back at the weekend , most likely . |
| 7 | Tommaso had not come back at Ascension , though some others who 'd been called to military service at the same time walked into town one afternoon . |
| 8 | But he could not have come back at a more opportune time as far as Selkirk are concerned . |
| 9 | EIGHT Yorkshire miners , trapped for 15 hours behind thousands of tons of rock , coal and twisted steel half a mile underground , are expected back at work today after what British Coal described as ‘ a stunningly successful ’ rescue operation . |
| 10 | And she might have accepted that but for the wry flicker in the eyes of the reflection that had looked back at her from the bathroom mirror . |
| 11 | Realising how she was staring at him , Isabel quickly looked back at the fire , leaning sideways a little so that her still-damp hair fell forward , partially shielding her face . |
| 12 | He said , said you were just standing there and all of a sudden he said you looked at me looked back at the wall just went pee he said it 's all come out , it 's all splattered all over the wall he said , you did your fly up , wiped your mouth , washed your hands and went out again as if nothing had happened . |
| 13 | He had said what he thought was the decent thing to say , and had it chucked back at him . |
| 14 | What was it Graham had said back at the Windorah about Barak ? |
| 15 | The real test of any training , of course , is how well it is applied back at the workface , and apart from Neale 's role in P-E , only the coming cricket season will show him how effective the Grid can be . |
| 16 | He smiled and looked down , remembering that moment in the machine when she had glared back at him . |
| 17 | It now seems set to be pushed back at least three months , as the chosen central processing units are causing problems . |
| 18 | The presence of immigration officials and police on board trains is comparable to the scenes of 1930s America where migrant labourers were turned back at state boundaries . |
| 19 | Reports reached rally organisers that 1,000 Muslims were turned back at Gotse Delchev on their way to Sofia . |
| 20 | The plan was that everyone would meet at the cottage on Boxing Day , making their own way there and hopefully bringing enormous amounts of expensive food and drink if they did n't want to be turned back at the gate . |
| 21 | The almost innumerable Goblins ravaged a large tract of Yvresse and were barely turned back at Tor Yvresse by the heroic efforts of Eltharion . |
| 22 | With the border opening looking increasingly doubtful in the week preceding Aug. 13 , members of several South Korean dissident groups attempted to make their own way to Panmunjom but were turned back at police roadblocks . |
| 23 | Macedonian vehicles were being turned back at the Greek border and hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in Salonika ( Greek Macedonia ) protested on Feb. 14 at the republic 's use of the name Macedonia . |
| 24 | A rusty loudhailer was produced , only to be thrust back at her staff . |
| 25 | For a split second , I have sometimes failed to recognize that it is my own face that is being reflected back at me . |
| 26 | In some cases , care must be taken not to put ideas into a respondent 's head early in an interview lest these are reflected back at a later point . |
| 27 | In February 1991 US$632,000,000 of debt to commercial creditor banks was bought back at 56 per cent of its face value as part of the United States " Brady Plan " for debt restructuring [ see pp. 36541-42 ; 37016-17 ] . |
| 28 | And Davide had smiled back at his friend , with a confused look . |
| 29 | Shiona had smiled back at the fair-haired youth who had so recently become her brother . |
| 30 | ‘ What do you find to do , out all day ? ’ asked my mother , who only ventured out with a specific purpose in mind and always got back at the time she had decided she would . |