Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] back at the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | UN flies bodies home THE BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen were flown home to Pakistan yesterday as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days ’ . |
2 | BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen in Mogadishu were flown home to Pakistan as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days . ’ |
3 | Barbara Buhler looks back at the effect of criticism on Georgia O'Keeffe 's art in the 1920s |
4 | Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself . |
5 | And in the third part , " Tuami glanced back at the gap through the mountain and saw that it was full of golden light and the sun was sitting in it " . |
6 | Corbett looked back at the tavern doorway now thronged with onlookers . |
7 | But she seemed unaware of it as her green eyes glared back at the man who had struck her . |
8 | ‘ Look , ’ said his Mum looking back at the house . |
9 | Across the road to the butcher 's where they looked in the window to see back at the reflection of Hogan 's Outfitters and realise that Sean Walsh had gone back inside to the empire that would one day be his . |
10 | Our political correspondent , Fiona Ross looks back at the career of Jo Grimond . |
11 | In the first of a three part series , Erika Barnes looks back at the life of the plane affectionately known as Fat Albert . |
12 | The goal though , was against the run of play and sure enough , Rovers came back at the start of the second half with an equaliser from Kenny Irons . |
13 | Regression enables the former child to look back at the situation through the eyes of the adult he or she has now become and to see the reality of it all . |
14 | When Tallis looked back at the leader he was slowly sitting up , reaching for his sword . |
15 | Janice looked back at the telly and stretched one leg out over Gavin 's lap . |
16 | The TARDIS arrived back at the hospital just as two Marines escorted Benny inside . |
17 | When Ace arrived back at the hospital with Petion- and the Doctor , she found Howard talking animatedly , but not entirely cheerfully , to a hawk-faced man in Marine uniform and what she thought of as a Smokey-bear hat . |
18 | The waiter arrived back at the table and Fernando stood to speak to him . |
19 | However , on the eve of today 's clash with Coventry at Highbury , which could result in Arsenal going top , Graham hit back at the fans who have attacked Dixon . |
20 | Li Shai Tung looked back at the pictures above the bed with new understanding . |
21 | If we picture a vibration as a cycle , that is as equivalent to a rotation round a circle to arrive back at the beginning again , the angular distance travelled in the mathematician 's natural units is 2π . |
22 | Bjaaland looked back at the mountains . |
23 | Li Shai Tung stared back at the boy for a moment , then looked down , chilled by what Ben had said . |
24 | ’ Li Shai Tung stared back at the hologram a moment longer , then , sighing , he plucked the scented sticks from the offering bowl , and threw them aside . |
25 | Robert looked back at the school . |
26 | The herb beds should be lightly dug over with a fork , weeded if necessary , and the invasive plants chopped back at the roots . |
27 | Lofoten was chosen for this first large raid because it offered a chance to hit back at the enemy as well as such economic targets as the destruction of fish oil supplies , which might impair German manufacture of nitro-glycerine and would reduce supplies of vitamin A and B capsules issued to German troops . |
28 | It was , however , by now well south of the airport and , after acknowledging an air traffic control instruction to report back at the BN beacon ready for another approach , the Vanguard tracked toward the BS , another beacon which was immediately to the south of the landing runway , 16 . |
29 | Somehow , after half an hour , I was at the top looking back at the sign which warned ‘ Rapide Descente 300 metres ’ . |
30 | The Maggot said with inappropriate exultation , then twisted his head to stare back at the island . |