Example sentences of "[verb] back in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | ‘ We wanted to play Dublin but all the venues were booked out months ago , so we 'll have to come back in the New Year and do somewhere like the SFX or the Stadium . |
3 | Spectators gasped in awe at the sight of a ball landing back in the same court . |
4 | But they were pegged back in the 41st minute when John Bumstead scored with a diving header from Scott Minto ’ s centre . |
5 | Stevie Gallagher 's shot was brilliantly saved by Andy Blackwood as Dunmurry came back in the second half but the visitors went two ahead through a penalty by Andy McMenamin and the cross from the right was turned in by Gareth Healey for the third with eight minutes left . |
6 | and I went out to tell him and he started talking to me for something and when I came back in the fucking milk ! |
7 | But after six weeks the colour came back in the same region . |
8 | The Sheffield Wednesday defender last night confirmed that he 's ready to bounce back in the live TV match with Spurs exactly 12 days after a horror collision . |
9 | I would put on a tape of Tudor madrigals — a new interest — and lie back in the contoured leather seats , letting myself melt into the crevices of Morley 's sinuous six-part harmony and observing the surrounding misery with mounting satisfaction . |
10 | Inside-right John Jackson , 23 , came from Clyde for £1,000 , one of Leeds ' largest outlays , and Fred Blackman , described by the Yorkshire Post as ‘ possibly the most stylish and polished back in the Second Division ’ , was bought from Huddersfield Town . |
11 | Ruth hung back in the shadowy hallway and peered through the wide arched open front door , her heart beating so wildly she felt sick with it . |
12 | If you use an equaliser during your video editing sessions , carefully check the effect of each adjustment as you go , by monitoring the sound over a loudspeaker ( headphones may not give a true impression of how the tone corrections will sound when played back in the normal way ) . |
13 | As it turned out , the principal had caught the other boys , and they were all being marched back in the front door of the school , but Mouse did n't know that . |
14 | Ewshot fought back in the second half and Murphy , despite an injury to his nose , covered acres of ground in both attack and defence to keep them at bay . |
15 | Gina settled back in the comfortable upholstery and expelled her breath in a gesture of resignation . |
16 | And lolling back in the high chair , he promptly fell asleep . |
17 | Courier 's only glimmer of hope came when he broke serve in the first game of the third set , but it was only a momentary lapse of concentration by the German , who so likes to win in front of his countrymen and women , as he broke back in the next game . |
18 | I think the answer is to be found back in the basic theory . |
19 | ‘ Gary showed great courage in coming back in the second half even though the injury was very painful . ’ |
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 | Wolves , who are beginning to look for a place in the promotion play-offs , hit back in the second half after Scott Sellars had poached a fine first-half goal . |
22 | West Ham doing so well in the second division went to first division Luton , and by half time they were in front , a Pariss goal after forty three minutes , but Luton hit back in the seventieth minute through Black , and these two sides must replay . |
23 | It will hold all the excess line you are ever likely to need , and its very concept of reeling will preserve the line from those snarls we mentioned earlier , because the line has little option but to reel back in the same form as it was reeled out . |
24 | Her black hair was swept back in the careless style that only the most expensive hairdressing can give . |
25 | Oh well we 'll go back in the other room . |
26 | He 's howling and scr w wailing cos I would n't let him go back in the same chair ! |
27 | With a mother who was active in B'nai B'rith , Anne Barth was offered a place on one of the early Kindertransporte , but her parents decided to hold back in the faint hope that conditions would improve . |
28 | Every time I come here I begin to worry that I have somehow crossed into another stream and am sailing back in the opposite direction . |
29 | We were troubled at how Frank would cope back in the big world . |
30 | Do make sure too , especially on some of the brushes that have washers ( plastic coverings ) , that they go back in the right order and that the screw is done up IN THE CENTRE of the washer . |