Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] back in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth flopped back in the lounger and studied the vapour trail through half-closed eyes . |
| 2 | He made Hodkinson step back in the second with a fierce right to the body . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Had IBM known back in the early 1980s what it knows now , it would have opened up its VM operating system , which also has its roots in development , but , coming from the button-down IBM world has many more security and management features than Unix started out with . |
| 5 | A friend once told me of a Northen Ireland tour back in the 1970s , by a group of bogus Wombles . |
| 6 | Maggie leans back in the easy chair . |
| 7 | It is a large-scale data collection and analysis exercise begun back in the early 1960s by the General Electric Company . |
| 8 | Trailing 2-0 to the Second Division high-flyers , Wycombe bounced back in the last 20 minutes to force a replay with goals from skipper Glyn Creaser and Steve Thompson , a corporal in the RAF . |
| 9 | Morris sprawled back in the one armchair with his whisky , watching them all impassively . |
| 10 | Spectators gasped in awe at the sight of a ball landing back in the same court . |
| 11 | Research studies demonstrated back in the 1970s the fact that exhaust emissions contained dangerous toxins , in particular lead . |
| 12 | But after six weeks the colour came back in the same region . |
| 13 | Warwick , 38 , and a veteran of 131 Grands Prix , won the world sportscar championship with Peugeot this year and has been itching for a chance to get back in the big time of Formula One . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 16 | Her father lay back in the big squashy leather chair and closed his eyes for a moment , before opening them again and fixing them firmly on his daughter . |
| 17 | After deciding to have her favourite crab-cakes , Christina sat back in the uncomfortable rattan chair , admiring Pauline 's Batik printed dress . |
| 18 | Gina settled back in the comfortable upholstery and expelled her breath in a gesture of resignation . |
| 19 | In manufacturing industry , productivity growth slipped back in the early 1970s in Europe and Japan ( table 11.5 ) . |
| 20 | Mr. Ibrahim Sadek , an Egyptian engineering consultant , lays the blame on the lack of unleaded fuel and to state production of outdated car engines : ‘ We are producing Fiats with engines designed back in the Forties ’ , he told the World Conference on Preparing for Climatic Change which ended in Cairo yesterday . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Katherine Lundy sat back in the darkened sitting room , her eyes on the deep red glow from the fire , the only sound the soft hissing of the burning coal and the solemn ticking of the clock . |
| 23 | But with 17 matches to go and key players returning , Strudwick believes his side can reach the big-time for the first time since the Rugby League began their bid to take the game beyond the confines of Yorkshire and Lancashire with the Fulham experiment back in the early eighties . |
| 24 | John Diggins ' involvement with Tony Iommi began back in the early '70s when working with guitar builder John Birch on Tony 's original black guitar . |
| 25 | Tony leaned back in the comfortable maroon velvet chair and admired the decor in the newly refurbished theatre-bar . |