Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yup , ’ she 'd said , shifting down to fourth as a car she 'd been waiting to pass pulled back into the slow lane . |
| 2 | He liked his porter , but if he 'd gone back to the stable … |
| 3 | She says it 's when they get released back to the wild that it 's best . |
| 4 | She says it 's when they get released back to the wild that it 's best . |
| 5 | Had it not been for another round of cost cutting , the group would have crept back into the black last year . |
| 6 | ‘ Miers could not take the German prisoners on board his sub , and if he had left them to paddle ashore they would immediately have gone back into the German forces … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | By that time , the footballers of Halifax Town may have climbed back into the big league . |
| 9 | Calico , which got started back in the early 1980s and which Unir claims AT&T could n't push because of USL and C++ , has reportedly 200 man/years invested in it . |
| 10 | Whilst the Conservative government was delighted to have sold back to the private sector one of its most difficult privatisation candidates , the impact of recent changes in the car industry have yet to be fully assessed . |
| 11 | Bertha had sat back with the satisfied air of having played a trump card , until suddenly her lip had quivered as tears filled her eyes . |
| 12 | The devilish smile , oblique and sharp as a scar , had come back to the gaunt face . |
| 13 | ‘ To us , he had come back from the dead , ’ his mother , Camilla Swann , said yesterday . |
| 14 | When Cardiff had come back from the dead , he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer . |
| 15 | We had come back like the full circle of our route , intact . |
| 16 | The dark green sun umbrella above them threw shadows across Guy 's face , but she realised that the teasing gleam had crept back into the narrowed gaze . |
| 17 | Shiona had smiled back at the fair-haired youth who had so recently become her brother . |
| 18 | Dunwoody was surprised when the judge called him the winner on Remittance Man in the opening Bristol Novice Hurdle , believing Peter Scudamore had got back in the final strides on the favourite Regal Ambition after being headed halfway up the run-in . |
| 19 | It had been the Nordic states which had drawn back from the full implications of the Oslo and Ouchy Conventions of the 1930s . |
| 20 | When he had arrived back in the cold dawn that early morning after the night with Emily , it was to find his landlady Mrs McIntosh waiting , his valise and books by her , her face severe . |
| 21 | At the 18th green Manuel and Andy had walked back to the marked circle . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've gone back to the old gods , in defiance to the Church . ’ |
| 24 | The big improvement with the council tax is that we 've gone back to the old system which is 100% rebates for those classified on low income . |
| 25 | The Socialist League and the Scottish Socialist Party had gone back to the Labour Party and many members of the Independent Socialist Party were to do so before long . |
| 26 | Back inside , Rafiq had gone back to the thousand-dollar question . |
| 27 | Having escorted Felicity Suvarov around St Mark 's cathedral , Julia had gone back to the Danieli hotel and shared some lunch with her . |
| 28 | A second " terrorist " had fled back to the eastern bank of the River Jordan . |
| 29 | Isabel stood pressed back against the wooden panels , trying to listen for the sound of breathing over the drumming of her heart . |
| 30 | I have come back to the international scene with a fierce rival in Phil Tufnell , with Ian Salisbury breathing down our necks and Hampshire 's young Sean Udal making great strides every season . |