Example sentences of "[verb] back from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dick Hebdige stands back from the virtual war |
| 2 | An imposing large house stands back from the main road , known as Thorne Hall , dated 1881 . |
| 3 | Cleo staggered back from the loving assault being bestowed upon her by the two larger animals . |
| 4 | He pressed , just hard enough , and drew back from the falling man . |
| 5 | The other passengers drew back from the dishevelled river dwellers , so far out of their element . |
| 6 | An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand . |
| 7 | She had drifted unhappily around the estate , dragging her feet and shrinking back from the noisy pack of children which romped around the gardens . |
| 8 | Only by trying to stand back from the daily grind and reviewing one 's long term goals can such opposition be slowly undermined . |
| 9 | The latter allows both parties a chance to stand back from the daily routine and take a harder look at overall performance . |
| 10 | The hope among many is that Lamont , or as looks increasingly unlikely , his successor , will be able to pull back from the second rise when he comes to the December 1994 Budget . |
| 11 | So , Slon , how do you feel about Zagrat , looking back from the freak time ? ’ asked the bimbo interviewer . |
| 12 | The portal was commissioned by Gaston IV , the then Count of Béarn , when he came back from the First Crusade . |
| 13 | Information can then be fed back from the cognitive system to the logogen system to influence the response of this system to the word which is going to be misread . |
| 14 | ‘ What has happened is that we have been clawed back from the disastrous level of whitefish we started at to a position in line with the top end of scientific advice . ’ |
| 15 | Somehow , though , Leith 's sensitivity picked up a strained atmosphere as she pulled her glance back from the stocky man who had taken it into his head to start walking over . |
| 16 | The advantage the pure watercolour has over all other media is that it depends greatly on the light passing through the colour being reflected back from the white paper . |
| 17 | Mr Pigdon started , his attention drawn back from the threatening sky . |
| 18 | Jimmy pulled the girl away with him , moving back from the outside wall , and the boards ; four feet above them at ground level . |
| 19 | The remainder of the analysis is carried out by ‘ rolling back ’ the decision tree , that is by moving back from the final pay-off figures , node by node , multiplying each pay-off by the probability of each event passed through in the network . |
| 20 | The remainder of the analysis is carried out by ‘ rolling back ’ the decision tree , that is by moving back from the final pay-off figures , node by node , multiplying each pay-off by the probability of each event passed through in the network . |
| 21 | Set back from the main road , the Lagant enjoys a centrally situated location , with all the village amenities within easy reach . |
| 22 | Set back from the main road , the Hotel Royal is located in a shady avenue about five minutes walk from a private sandy beach . |
| 23 | Set back from the main road , the Hotel Gabbiano is personally run with pride by the Mirandola family . |
| 24 | Dowd stepped back from the dying man as if slapped . |
| 25 | Peggy stepped back from the old woman . |
| 26 | Tammuz faced him and Quincx Roirbak stepped back from the raw emotion on the younger man 's face . |
| 27 | THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place . |
| 28 | He flicked the light on , and the greenish glow reflecting back from the tiled interior showed it to be empty of human occupation . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't think he is going to be stepping back from the front line , ’ he said . |
| 30 | I still have n't heard back from the young lady who sent me the Valentine card ; did you really mean it ? |