Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] back from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another type of chart helps parents begin to stand back from the emotional reactions they have and see what is happening with their child . |
| 2 | I was not sure that I had been baptized ( having shrunk back from the outstretched hand with water in my late teens , believing baptism a piece of medieval nonsense ) , while wanting to be a member of the church . |
| 3 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 4 | Only by trying to stand back from the daily grind and reviewing one 's long term goals can such opposition be slowly undermined . |
| 5 | ‘ To us , he had come back from the dead , ’ his mother , Camilla Swann , said yesterday . |
| 6 | When Cardiff had come back from the dead , he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer . |
| 7 | Even in daylight it had a sombre , suspicious air as if it wished to slink back from the adjoining houses . |
| 8 | It had been the Nordic states which had drawn back from the full implications of the Oslo and Ouchy Conventions of the 1930s . |
| 9 | Besides having this example of baronial efficiency before his eyes , common sense might have suggested the importance of revealing at once the new conditions for ecclesiastical support which he had brought back from the Roman Council of 1099 . |
| 10 | Both require standing back from the day-to-day running of the organisation and examining the wider picture . |
| 11 | Charles and Maurice Saatchi have stepped back from the top executive roles and have recruited Frenchman Robert Louis-Dreyfus as chief executive . |
| 12 | Charles and Maurice Saatchi have stepped back from the top executive roles and have recruited Frenchman Robert Louis-Dreyfus as chief executive . |