Example sentences of "[verb] back [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Years ago we threw the old didacticism ( dowdy morality ) out of the window ; it has come back in at the door wearing modern dress ( smart values ) and we do not even recognize it ’ ( p. 159 ) . |
| 2 | Although the break was a nasty one , McCracken came back successfully at the beginning of 1921–22 when the Palace made their debut in Division Two and he played more games for us in that division than anyone else during our four year tenure there 1921–25 . |
| 3 | I keep as many of your letters as I can store to look back on at the turn of the century , which we 're both going to see ! |
| 4 | He glanced back up at the house , where warm orange light spilled out from the dining room into the grey afternoon . |
| 5 | Blanche held the man 's gaze for a second and glanced back down at the piece of paper . |
| 6 | Then a second CIS trainer backed Alexeyev 's version , but on Thursday Russian Olympic chief Vitaly Smirnov disagreed and on Friday Kurlovich himself hit back savagely at the accusation . |
| 7 | She looked back briefly at the house behind her , low and grey with its long eighteenth-century windows and its sheltering clumps of trees , then she picked up her skirts and began to run up the slope towards the sea . |
| 8 | Spatz looked aside , then looked back up at the Marshal , choosing his words carefully . |
| 9 | Lever looked back up at the screen , watching the young T'ang step down into the darkness . |
| 10 | He looked back down at the map again . |
| 11 | The T'ang looked back down at the folder and at the summary Shepherd had appended to the front of his report . |
| 12 | Sighing , Cowley looked back down at the operation . |
| 13 | One of them , a tall Hung Mao sat apart from the rest , looked up as the three men approached , then , with the vaguest movement of his head to indicate that they should go on up , looked back down at the rifle in his lap , continuing his meticulous inspection of the weapon . |
| 14 | He sighed and looked back down at the page before closing the book . |