Example sentences of "[verb] back from the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another type of chart helps parents begin to stand back from the emotional reactions they have and see what is happening with their child . |
| 2 | Even in daylight it had a sombre , suspicious air as if it wished to slink back from the adjoining houses . |
| 3 | I met a teacher recently , one of our best , the sort of charismatic individual with a ready smile , a mind full of anarchic ideas , a love of literature and an effortless but much practised classroom skill which bounces back from the interested eyes 0& his students . |
| 4 | It had been the Nordic states which had drawn back from the full implications of the Oslo and Ouchy Conventions of the 1930s . |
| 5 | In the end there were certain logistical difficulties in getting all the petition forms back from the outlying islands in time for Helen Martini 's departure for London on Thursday 14 March . |
| 6 | The prosecution could not prove that he had encashed the giros because they are destroyed by the DSS twelve months after they have been received back from the clearing banks . |
| 7 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 8 | When Kit , informed by his scout that the enemy was present , gave the first order to fire , the soft promise of the light burst into flame ; the vanguard of the islanders fell back from the English muskets . |
| 9 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |
| 10 | The echo of the twin motors crackled back from the nearby buildings like the sound of a battle-tank firing up for action . |